Promulgated by: State Council.
Document No.: Decree No. 766 of the State Council.
Adopted at the 15th executive meeting of the State Council on September 20, 2023. Effective January 1, 2024.
Chapter 1 General Provisions
Article 1. In order to create a cyber environment conducive to the physical and mental health of minors and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of minors, this Regulation is enacted in accordance with the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, the Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China, the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Personal Information and other laws.
Article 2. The protection of minors in cyberspace shall be subject to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the guidance of the socialist core values and the principle of benefiting minors to the most, be in line with the physical and mental health development of minors and the law and characteristics of cyberspace, and be subject to social co-governance.
Article 3. The Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) is responsible for the overall coordination of the protection of minors in cyberspace and effectively protecting minors in cyberspace ex officio. The state press and publication and film authorities as well as the department of education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, health, market regulation, and radio and television etc. under the State Council shall effectively protect minors in cyberspace ex officio. Local people’s governments at or above the county level and their relevant departments shall effectively protect minors in cyberspace ex officio.
Article 4. The Communist Youth Leagues, the Women’s Federations, the Trade Unions, the Disabled Persons’ Federations, the Working Committees for the Care of the Next Generation, the Youth Federations, the Students’ Federations, the Young Pioneers’ Federations, and other people’s organizations, relevant social organizations, and grass-roots mass organizations of self-governance shall assist the relevant authorities in effectively protecting minors in cyberspace and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of minors.
Article 5. Schools and families shall educate and guide minors to participate in activities that are conducive to their physical and mental health and to access internet space in a scientific, civilized, safe and reasonable manner, so as to prevent and intervene in minors’ addiction to the cyberspace.
Article 6. Providers of cyber products and services, personal information handlers, manufacturers and sellers of intelligent terminal products shall abide by laws, administrative regulations and the relevant provisions of the State, respect social moralities, follow business ethics, act in good faith, fulfill the obligation of protecting minors in cyberspace, and assume social responsibilities.
Article 7. Providers of cyber products and services, personal information handlers, manufacturers and sellers of intelligent terminal products shall accept the supervision of the government and the public, cooperate with the relevant authorities in carrying out the supervision and inspection involving the protection of minors in cyberspace in accordance with the law, establish convenient, reasonable and effective channels for complaints and whistleblowing, publicize the channels and methods for complaints and whistleblowing in an obvious way, and promptly accept and handle public complaints and whistleblowing.
Article 8. Any organization or individual discovering any violation of the provisions hereof may make a complaint or whistleblowing to the administrations of cyberspace, press and publication, film, education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, health, market supervision and administration, radio and television and other sectors. The administration that receives a complaint or whistleblowing shall promptly handle the case in accordance with the law or refer the case that does not fall under its responsibility to the competent administration.
Article 9. Cyber-related industrial organizations shall intensify industrial self-regulation, formulate relevant industrial norms on the protection of minors in cyberspace, instruct their members to fulfill the obligation of protecting minors in cyberspace, and strengthen the protection of minors in cyberspace.
Article 10. News media shall publicize the laws, regulations, policy measures, typical cases and relevant knowledge on the protection of minors in cyberspace in the form of news reports, feature columns (programs), public service advertisements, etc., conduct supervision by public opinions over any infringement upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors, and guide the whole of society to jointly participate in the protection of minors in cyberspace.
Article 11. The State encourages and supports the strengthening of scientific research, talent cultivation, and international exchange and cooperation in the field of the protection of minors in cyberspace.
Article 12. Organizations and individuals that make outstanding contributions to the protection of minors in cyberspace shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State.
Chapter 2 Promotion of Cyber Literacy
Article 13. The education department of the State Council shall incorporate cyber literacy education into schools’ quality-oriented education, and, in concert with the Cyberspace Administration of China, formulate indicators for assessing minors’ cyber literacy. Education authorities shall guide and support schools in carry outing the cyber literacy education for minors, and foster minors’ cybersecurity awareness, civilization quality, behavioral habits, and protection skills with focus on the formation of cyber moral awareness, the cultivation of the concept of rule of law in cyberspace, the building of cyber capacity, and the protection of personal and property safety, among others.
Article 14. People’s governments at or above the county level shall make scientific planning and reasonable distribution, promote the balanced and coordinated development of non-profit internet access services, strengthen the construction of public cultural facilities that provide non-profit internet access services, and improve the conditions for minors to access the internet. Local people’s governments at or above the county level shall provide students with quality cyber literacy education courses by equipping primary and secondary schools with guidance teachers with corresponding professional capacity, purchasing services by the government, or encouraging primary and secondary schools to purchase the relevant services on their own.
Article 15. Schools, communities, libraries, cultural centers, youth and children’s palaces and other places that provide minors with internet access service facilities shall provide minors with internet access guidance and a safe and healthy internet access environment by arranging for professionals, recruiting volunteers or otherwise, installing software designed to protect minors in cyberspace, or taking other technical measures for the protection of the security of the minors.
Article 16. Schools shall include the improvement of students’ cyber literacy into their education and teaching activities, reasonably use the internet to carry out teaching activities, establish a sound management system for students’ internet access at school, standardize and manage intelligent terminal products brought by minor students to school in accordance with the law, help students form good internet surfing habits, cultivate students’ awareness of cybersecurity and rule of law in cyberspace , and enhance students’ ability to obtain, analyze and judge information online.
Article 17. Guardians of minors shall strengthen the building of family education and family style, improve their own cyber literacy, regulate their own use of the internet, and strengthen the education, demonstration, guidance and supervision of minors’ use of the internet.
Article 18. The State encourages and supports the research and development, production and use of software to protect minors in cyberspace, intelligent terminal products, minor modes, special zones for minors and other cyber technologies, products and services that specifically target at minors and adapt to the laws and characteristics of the physical and mental health development of minors, strengthens the building and transformation of barrier-free environment in cyberspace, and promotes minors to broaden their horizons, cultivate their sentiments and improve their qualities.
Article 19. Software designed to protect minors in cyberspace and intelligent terminal products specifically provided for minors to use shall have the functions of effectively identifying illegal information and information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors, protecting minors’ personal information rights and interests, preventing minors from becoming addicted to the internet space, and facilitating guardians’ performance of guardianship responsibilities. In concert with the relevant departments of the State Council, the Cyberspace Administration of China shall, in light of the needs for protecting minors in cyberspace, clarify the relevant technical standards or requirements for software designed to protect minors in cyberspace and intelligent terminal products specifically provided for minors to use, and guide and supervise cyber-related industrial organizations to evaluate the use effects of software designed to protect minors in cyberspace and intelligent terminal products specifically provided for minors to use pursuant to the relevant technical standards and requirements. Manufacturers of intelligent terminal products shall install software designed to protect minors in cyberspace before the products leave the factory or inform users of the installation channels and methods in a noticeable way. Sellers of intelligent terminal products shall, prior to the sale of the products, inform users of the information about the installation of software designed to protect minors in cyberspace as well as installation channels and methods in a noticeable way. The guardians of minors shall reasonably use and guide minors to use software for protection in cyberspace and intelligent terminal products, etc., and create a favorable family environment for use cyberspace.
Article 20. A cyber platform service provider with a large number of minor users or with a significant impact on the group of minors shall perform the following obligations: 1. At the stages of design, research and development and operation of cyber platform services, fully consider the characteristics of the physical and mental development of minors and regularly assess the impact of the protection of minors in cyberspace; 2. Provide minor modes or special zones for minors to facilitate minors in obtaining products or services on the platform that are conducive to their physical and mental health; 3. Establish a sound compliance system for protection of minors in cyberspace in accordance with the provisions of the State, and establish an independent body mainly composed of external members to supervise the protection of minors in cyberspace; 4. Follow the principles of openness, fairness, and impartiality, formulate specific platform rules, specify the obligation of product or service providers on the platform to protect minors in cyberspace, and remind, in an eye-catching way, minor users of their legal rights to be protected in cyberspace and the remedies against any cyber infringement; 5. Stop providing services to any product or service provider on the platform that violates laws or administrative regulations, seriously harms the physical and mental health of minors or infringes upon other legitimate rights and interests of minors; and 6. release a special report on social responsibility for the protection of minors in cyberspace each year and accept social supervision. The specific measures for identifying a cyber platform service provider with a large number of minor users or with a significant impact on the group of minors as mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be separately formulated by the Cyberspace Administration of China in concert with the relevant authorities.
Chapter 3 Regulation of Information in Cyberspace
Article 21. The State encourages and supports the production, reproduction, release, dissemination and promotion of socialist core values and advanced socialist culture, revolutionary culture and fine traditional Chinese culture, founds the Chinese nation community consciousness, cultivates minors’ feelings for home and country and good morality, guides minors to develop good living habits and behavioral habits and creates a clear and bright cyberspace and a good cyber ecology which are conducive to the healthy growth of minors.
Article 22. No organization or individual may produce, reproduce, release or disseminate cyber information that propagates obscenity, pornography, violence, cult, superstition, gambling, lures self-harm and suicide, terrorism, separatism, extremism and other contents that endanger the physical and mental health of minors. No organization or individual may produce, reproduce, release, disseminate or possess pornographic minor-related information in cyberspace.
Article 23. For any cyber product or service containing information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors, such as information that may cause or induce minors to imitate unsafe acts, to commit acts in violation of social morality, to produce extreme emotions or to develop bad hobbies, the organization or individual that produces, reproduces, releases or disseminates such information shall give a conspicuous reminder before displaying such information. The Cyberspace Administration of China shall, in conjunction with the state authority of press and publication and the authority of film as well as the departments of education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, and radio and television under the State Council, determine the specific types and scope of information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors as well as judgment criteria and prompt measures on the basis of the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
Article 24. No organization or individual may produce, reproduce, release or disseminate the information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors as prescribed in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 hereof in the cyber products and services specially targeting minors. Providers of cyber products and services shall not present the information that may affect the physical and mental health of minors as prescribed in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 hereof at an eye-catching position of products or services or in key links that are likely to attract users’ attention, such as homepage, pop-up window and hot search. Providers of cyber products and services shall not carry out commercial marketing to minors in an automatic decision -making manner.
Article 25. No organization or individual may send, push to minors, or induce or force minors to have access to the information containing the content that endangers or may affect the physical and mental health of minors.
Article 26. No organization or individual may insult, slander, threaten or maliciously damage minors’ image or commit any other cyberbullying in such forms as text, pictures, audio and video via the internet. Providers of cyber products and services shall establish sound mechanisms for early warning, prevention, identification, monitoring and handling of cyberbullying, set up functions and channels that facilitate minors and their guardians in keeping records of cyberbullying and exercise the right of notification, and provide convenience for minors to set up options for protection from cyberbullying information, such as shielding unfamiliar users, the availability of information released by minors themselves, prohibition from reposting or commenting on information released by minors themselves, and prohibition from sending information to minors themselves. Providers of cyber products and services shall establish a sound cyberbullying information characterization database, optimize the relevant algorithmic models, and strengthen the identification and monitoring of cyberbullying information by combining technical means such as artificial intelligence and big data and manual review.
Article 27. No organization or individual may organize, instigate, coerce, lure, deceive or assist minors to commit illegal or criminal acts on the internet in such forms as text, pictures, audio and video.
Article 28. The providers of online education cyber products and services targeting minors shall, in accordance with laws, administrative regulations and the relevant provisions of the State, provide corresponding products and services in light of the physical and mental development characteristics and cognitive abilities of minors at different age stages.
Article 29. Providers of cyber products and services shall strengthen the management of the information released by users, and take effective measures to prevent the production, reproduction, release or transmission of the information in violation of Article 22, Article 24, Article 25, Paragraph 1 of Article 26 or Article 27 hereof. If any information is found in violation of the aforesaid provisions, the transmission of relevant information shall be forthwith ceased, and measures such as deletion, shielding or disconnection shall be taken to prevent the information from spreading. Relevant records shall be kept, and a report shall be made to authorities of cyberspace administration and public security, and measures such as warning, function restriction, service suspension and account closure shall be taken against the users who produce, reproduce, release or transmit the aforesaid information. Where The provider of a cyber product or service discovers that a user releasees or transmits the information specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 hereof but fails to give a noticeable prompt, it shall give a prompt or notify the user to give a prompt; if no prompt is given, the information shall not be transmitted.
Article 30. Where the authorities of cyberspace administration, press and publication, and film, as well as the departments of education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, and radio and television under the State Council discover any information in violation of Article 22, Article 24, Article 25, Paragraph 1 of Article 26 or Article 27 hereof, or discover any information specified in Paragraph 1 of Article 23 hereof for which no noticeable prompt is given, they shall require the cyber product or service provider to handle the case in accordance with Article 29 hereof; if the above information is from abroad, they shall notify the relevant organizations in accordance with the law to take technical measures and other necessary measures to block the transmission thereof.
Chapter 4 Protection of Personal Information in Cyberspace
Article 31. Cyber service providers that provide minors with information release, instant messaging and other services shall require the minors or their guardians to provide the real identity information of the minors in accordance with the law. If the minors or their guardians refuse to provide the real identity information of the minors, cyber service providers shall not provide relevant services for the minors. Online live-streaming service providers shall establish a dynamic verification mechanism for the real identity information of an online live-streaming uploader and shall not provide online live-streaming uploading services for minor users who do not conform to the legal provisions.
Article 32. Personal information handlers shall strictly abide by the provisions of the Cyberspace Administration of China and relevant authorities on the scope of necessary personal information for cyber products and services, and shall not compel minors or their guardians to consent to non-necessary personal information processing, nor shall they refuse minors to use their basic functional services because the minors or their guardians do not agree to handle non-necessary personal information of minors or withdraw their consent.
Article 33. Guardians of minors shall educate and guide minors to enhance the awareness and ability of personal information protection, master the scope of personal information, and understand the risks of personal information security, and guide minors to exercise their rights of access to, reproduction, correction, supplementation and deletion in the activities of processing personal information, so as to protect minors’ personal information rights and interests.
Article 34. Where a minor or his/her guardian requests to access, reproduce, correct, supplement or delete the personal information of the minor in accordance with the law, the personal information handler shall abide by the following provisions: 1. Provide convenient methods and channels to support the minor or his/her guardian to access the types and quantity of the personal information of the minor, with no restrictions on the reasonable requests of the minor or his/her guardian imposed; 2. Provide convenient functions to support the minor or his/her guardian to copy, correct, supplement and delete the personal information of the minor, with no unreasonable conditions imposed; and 3. Timely accept and handle the applications filed by the minor or his/her guardian for access, reproduction, correction, supplementation or deletion of the personal information of the minor, and notify the applicant in writing of reasons if the request of the minor or his/her guardian to exercise the rights is rejected. Where the request of a minor or his/her guardian for transfer of the personal information of the minor in accordance with the law meets the conditions prescribed by the Cyberspace Administration of China, the personal information handler shall provide channels for transfer.
Article 35. Where the personal information of minors is or may be divulged, tampered with or lost, the personal information handler shall forthwith activate its emergency plan for personal information security incidents, take remedial measures, timely report the case to the cyberspace administration and other authorities, and inform the affected minors and their guardians of the incidents by mail, letter, telephone, push information and other means in accordance with relevant provisions of the State. Where it is difficult for the personal information handler to inform one by one, it shall take reasonable and effective ways to release the relevant warning information in a timely manner, unless otherwise provided by laws and administrative regulations.
Article 36. A personal information handler shall strictly set the information access authority for its staff under the principle of minimal authorization and control the scope of access to the personal information of minors. The access of a staff member to the personal information of minors shall be examined and approved by the relevant person-in-charge or the manager authorized thereby, the access information shall be recorded, and technical measures shall be taken to avoid illegal processing of the personal information of minors.
Article 37. A personal information handler shall conduct by itself or entrust a specialized agency to conduct audit of its compliance with laws and administrative regulations in the processing of the personal information of minors every year, and report the audit information to the cyberspace administration and other authorities in a timely manner.
Article 38. Upon discovering that the private information of minors or the personal information released by minors via internet involves private information, a cyber service provider shall timely give a prompt and take necessary protection measures such as stopping the transmission to prevent the information from spreading. Where a cyber service provider finds that a minor may be harmed through the private information of the minor, it shall immediately take necessary measures to keep relevant records and report the case to the public security authority.
Chapter 5 Prevention and Control of Internet Addiction
Article 39. The prevention and intervention of minors’ internet addiction shall be carried out in compliance with laws, administrative regulations and relevant provisions of the State. Authorities of education, health, market regulation etc. shall supervise and administer the agencies engaging in prevention and intervention of minors’ internet addiction ex officio.
Article 40. Schools shall strengthen the guidance and training for teachers to improve their ability to early identify and intervene in minor students’ internet addiction. For a minor student who is inclined to be addicted to the internet, schools shall inform their guardians in a timely manner, jointly educate and guide the minor student, and help him/her resume normal study and life.
Article 41. Guardians of minors shall guide minors to use the internet in a safe and reasonable manner, pay attention to minors’ access to internet as well as their relevant physiological conditions, psychological conditions and behavioral habits, prevent minors from accessing the cyber information that endangers or may affect their physical and mental health, reasonably arrange time for minors to access internet, and prevent and intervene in minors’ internet addiction.
Article 42. Providers of cyber products and services shall establish a sound system of addiction prevention, shall not provide minors with products and services that induce their addiction, shall timely modify contents, functions and rules that may cause minors to become addicted to the internet, and shall make public the work of addiction prevention each year to accept social supervision.
Article 43. Providers of cyber services such as games, live-streaming, audio and video, and social contact in cyberspace shall, in light of the characteristics of the use of their services by minors of different ages and by adhering to the principles of integration, friendliness, practicality and effectiveness, set the mode for minors, provide corresponding services in terms of the period, duration, function and content of use in accordance with the relevant provisions and standards of the State, and provide time management, authority management, consumption management and other functions for guardians to fulfill their guardianship duties in an eye-catching and convenient way.
Article 44. Providers of cyber services such as games, live-streaming, audio and video, and social contact in cyberspace shall take measures to reasonably restrict the amount of single consumption and daily accumulative consumption of minors of different ages in the use of their services, and shall not provide minors with paid services that do not match their capacity for civil conduct.
Article 45. Providers of cyber services such as games, live-streaming, audio and video, and social contact in cyberspace shall take measures to prevent and resist adverse value trends such as prioritizing traffic, and shall not establish online communities, chat groups or topics with the themes of fund-raising for support groups, voting or ranking, or quantity control and rating, nor shall they induce minors to participate in online activities such as fund-raising for support groups, voting or ranking, or quantity control and rating, and shall prevent and stop their users from inducing minors to commit the aforesaid activities.
Article 46. Online game service providers shall verify the real identity information of minor users by necessary means such as the unified electronic identity authentication system for minors for online games. Providers of cyber products and services shall not provide minors with the service of game account rental.
Article 47. Online game service providers shall establish sound game rules to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the online games and shall prevent minors from having access to game content or game functions that may affect their physical and mental health. Online game service providers shall implement the requirements of reminding of age appropriateness, classify game products by assessing the types, content, functions and other elements of game products in light of the physical and mental development characteristics and cognitive abilities of minors at different ages, clarify the age stages of minor users for which game products are suitable, and give prominent reminders in user downloading, registration, login interfaces and other positions.
Article 48. The authorities of press and publication, education, health, culture and tourism, radio and television, and cyberspace administration etc. shall regularly carry out publicity and education on the prevention of minors’ internet addiction, supervise and inspect the performance of their obligations of preventing minors’ internet addiction by providers of cyber products and services, and guide families, schools and social organizations to cooperate with each other and take scientific and reasonable measures to prevent and intervene in minors’ internet addiction. The press and publication authority of the State shall take the lead in organizing the prevention and control of minors’ addiction to online games, and shall, in concert with the relevant authorities, formulate administrative provisions on the time periods, hours and upper consumption limits for the provision of online game services to minors. The authorities of health and education shall, ex officio, guide the relevant medical and health institutions and institutions of higher education etc. to conduct basic research on mental disorders and psychological and behavioral problems caused by minors’ internet addiction, as well as application research such as screening and assessment, diagnosis, prevention and intervention.
Article 49. Any organization or individual shall not intervene in minors’ internet addiction or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of minors by maltreatment, force or other means harming the physical and mental health of minors.
Chapter 6 Legal Liability
Article 50. Where the local people’s governments at all levels and the relevant authorities at or above the county level, in violation of this Regulation, fail to perform their duties of protecting minors in cyberspace, the superior authorities shall order them to make corrections; in case of refusal to make corrections or serious circumstances, the responsible leaders and directly liable persons shall be punished in accordance with the law.
Article 51. Where schools, communities, libraries, cultural centers, youth and children’s palaces, etc. fail to perform their duties of protecting minors in cyberspace, in violation of this Regulation, the authorities of education, culture and tourism et. shall, ex officio, order them to make corrections; in case of refusal to make corrections or serious circumstances, the responsible leaders and directly liable persons shall be punished in accordance with the law.
Article 52. Where the guardians of minors fail to perform the guardianship duties specified herein or infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of the minors, the residents’ committees, villagers’ committees or women’s federations at the places where the minors reside, the guardians’ employers, primary and secondary schools, kindergartens and other entities that have close contact with minors shall criticize and educate the guardians, exhort them to stop infringement or urge them to accept the guidance in respect of family education in accordance with the law. 5 50 1 10 Article 53 For any violation of Article 7, Paragraph 3 of Article 19 or Paragraph 2 of Article 38 hereof, the authorities of cyberspace, press and publication, film, education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, market regulation, and radio and television etc. shall, ex officio, order the offender to make corrections; in case of refusal to make corrections or serious circumstances, a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan shall be imposed on the offender, and the person directly in charge and other directly liable persons shall be imposed a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan. 5000 10 100 Article 54 For any violation of Paragraph 1 of Article 20 hereof, the authorities of cyberspace, press and publication, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, and radio and television etc. shall, ex officio, order the offender to make corrections, give a warning to the offender, and confiscate illegal income of the offender; in case of refusal to make corrections, a fine of not more than 1 million yuan shall be imposed concurrently on the offender, and the person directly in charge and other directly liable persons shall be imposed a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan. For any violation of Items 1 and 5, Paragraph 1 of Article 20 hereof, with serious circumstances, the authorities of cyberspace, press and publication, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, and radio and television etc. at or above the provincial level shall, ex officio, order the offender to make corrections, confiscate illegal income of the offender, and impose a fine of not more than 50 million yuan or not more than 5% of the turnover of the previous year on the offender, and may order the offender to suspend the relevant business or suspend the business for rectification, and notify the authorities concerned to revoke the relevant business permit or business license in accordance with the law; they may also impose a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan on the person directly in charge and other directly liable persons, and may decide to prohibit them from serving as directors, supervisors, senior executives or persons in charge of the protection of minors of the relevant enterprises within a certain period of time. 10 100 1 10 100 10 100 Article 55 For any violation of Article 24 or Article 25 hereof, the authorities of cyberspace, press and publication, film, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, market regulation, and radio and television etc. shall, ex officio, order the offender to make corrections within a time limit and give a warning to the offender, confiscate illegal income of the offender, and may impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan on the offender. In case of refusal to make corrections or serious circumstances, the offender shall be ordered to suspend the relevant business, or suspend business, or have the relevant business permit or business license revoked. If the illegal income is more than 1 million yuan, a fine of not less than one time but not more than ten times the illegal income shall be imposed on the offender. If there is no illegal income or the illegal income is less than 1 million yuan, a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan shall be imposed on the offender. 100 1 10 100 10 100 1 10 Article 56 For any violation of Paragraph 2 and Paragraph 3 of Article 26, Article 28, Paragraph 1 of Article 29, Paragraph 2 of Article 31, Article 36, Paragraph 1 of Article 38, Articles 42 to 45, Paragraph 2 of Article 46, or Article 47 hereof, the authorities of cyberspace, press and publication, film, education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, or radio and television etc. shall, ex officio, order the offender to make rectifications, give a warning to the offender, confiscate illegal gains of the offender, impose a fine of not less than one time but not more than ten times the illegal gains concurrently if the illegal gains exceed 1 million yuan or a fine of not less than 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million concurrently if there are no illegal gains or the illegal gains are less than 1 million yuan, and impose a fine of not less than 10,000 yuan but not more than 100,000 yuan on the person directly in charge and other persons directly held liable; in case of refusal to make rectifications or serious circumstances, the authorities of cyberspace, press and publication, film, education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, or radio and television etc. may order it to suspend relevant business, suspend its operation for rectification, close its website, or revoke its relevant business permit or business license. 5 5 Article 57 Where the provider of a cyber product or service violates this Regulation and is subject to such punishment as website closure, revocation of the relevant business permit or business license, it shall not re-apply for the relevant permit within five years, and its directly responsible executive and other directly liable persons shall not engage in cyber product or service business of the same type within five years.
Article 58. Whoever, in violation of this Regulation, infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of any minor and causes any damage to the minor, shall bear civil liability according to law; in the case of violation of public security administration, the offender shall be given an administration punishment for public security according to law; in the case of a crime, criminal liability shall be pursued according to law.
Chapter 7 Supplementary Provisions
Article 59. For the purpose of this Regulation, “intelligent terminal products” refer to mobile phones, computers and other cyber terminal products which can be connected to the internet, have an operating system and for which users can install application software on their own. 2024 1 1 Article 60 This Regulation shall come into force on 1 January 2024. PAGE/NUMPAGES PAGE/NUMPAGES