---
title_en: "Provisions on the Protection of Minors by Schools"
title_zh: "未成年人学校保护规定"
abbreviation: "School Protection Provisions"
hierarchy: "rule"
issuing_body: "Ministry of Education (MOE)"
adopted_date: 2021-06-01
effective_date: 2021-09-01
status: "effective"
related_laws: ["minors-protection-law", "minors-online-protection-regulations"]
domains: ["minors-protection"]
url: https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/minors-school-protection-provisions/
summary: "MOE Order No. 50, the school-facing implementing rule under the Law on the Protection of Minors. For the online-protection regime its load-bearing provision is Article 21: teachers and staff who discover students fabricating facts to defame others, spreading rumors or false information, or maliciously disseminating others' private information through networks or other means must stop it promptly — the hook that turns online defamation and privacy-spreading incidents among students into a school management duty, with civil supplementary liability under Civil Code Article 1201 if the school fails to act."
---

> **Source: Data Compliance China** — https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/minors-school-protection-provisions/ · English rendering and annotations by DCC; the Chinese original governs. Cite as: Data Compliance China, "Provisions on the Protection of Minors by Schools", https://datacompliancechina.com/laws/minors-school-protection-provisions/
**Promulgated by:** Ministry of Education.
**Document No.:** MOE Order No. 50.
**Promulgated June 1, 2021; effective September 1, 2021.**

DCC has not reproduced the full text. The provision most cited in DCC briefs
is **Article 21(5)**: teachers and staff who discover a student "fabricating
facts to defame others, spreading rumors or false information to disparage
others, or maliciously disseminating others' privacy through networks or
other information-dissemination means" must promptly stop the conduct.