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- § 25 · AI-COMPANION
Ten Questions Before July 15: A Compliance Q&A on China's AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Measures
Two days before the Interim Measures for the Management of AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services take effect on July 15, 2026, compliance practitioners Chen Huan and Li Qiyao distill the final text into ten questions AI companies keep asking: what counts as an anthropomorphic interaction service (and what is excluded), the content red lines, training-data duties, mandatory registration fields including age and emergency contacts, the two-hour usage reminder, the ban on virtual intimate relationships for minors, the separate-consent gate on training with sensitive interaction data, the five security-assessment triggers, and the penalty ladder topping out at RMB 200,000 where life and health are harmed.
- § 26 · CYBERSECURITY
NFRA Opens Consultation on Banking and Insurance Cybersecurity Measures: 72 Articles, a Four-Tier Incident Scale, and a Hard CII Chapter
The National Financial Regulatory Administration is consulting on the Measures for the Administration of Cybersecurity in the Banking and Insurance Sectors — a 72-article draft that would give banks, insurers, and financial holding companies a single cybersecurity rulebook under the CSL, DSL, PIPL, and CII Regulations. It fixes board-level responsibility, a six-month log-retention floor, annual penetration testing, a four-tier incident scale with a two-hour reporting clock, and a dedicated critical-information-infrastructure chapter with a one-hour reporting deadline, domestic-operation and disaster-recovery requirements, and annual procurement-list reporting. Comments close August 10, 2026.
- § 27 · CROSS-BORDER
The Negative-List Map, Region by Region: Ten Zones, Two Models, and the Year Data Export Went Province-Wide
As of July 2026, ten Chinese regions — nine free-trade zones plus the Hainan Free Trade Port — have published data-export negative lists under Article 6 of the 2024 Cross-border Data Flows Provisions, and this year Beijing and Shanghai took the mechanism province- and city-wide, off the FTZ footprint entirely. DCC's roundup maps the full set: which sectors each zone lists (from Tianjin's 13 commodity categories to Guangdong's smart-manufacturing and personal-credit fields, Chongqing's intelligent-connected-vehicle chain, and Jiangsu's biopharma-only list), the two management models that have crystallized — pre-export filing versus Shanghai and Guangdong's 'transfer-first, report-after' — and how an overseas team should read the map. Compiled from the CAC's national negative-list index and each region's official notice, and paired with DCC's new downloadable negative-list registry.
- § 28 · E-COMMERCE-LAW
China's 2026 Draft E-Commerce Law Amendment: From Marketplace Transactions to Platform-Economy Governance
On July 4, 2026, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Ministry of Commerce released the Draft Amendment to the E-Commerce Law for public comment, with comments due August 4, 2026. The draft has 20 articles and, according to the official notice and Xinhua Q&A, moves in five directions: expanding the law's adjustment scope beyond platforms and in-platform operators to other platform-economy participants; strengthening the platform responsibility system with richer, more graduated regulatory tools; building an integrated supervision mechanism for cross-sector platform operations, including consistent online/offline business supervision and stronger department and central-local coordination; targeting prominent illegal conduct in e-commerce; and deepening open cooperation by aligning rules, regulation, management and standards with international practice, supporting industry self-discipline and orderly outbound expansion, and adding countermeasure tools to protect Chinese enterprises. DCC reads the amendment as an attempt to reposition the E-Commerce Law from a transaction/platform statute into a platform-economy governance statute, with operational implications for platform rulemaking, merchant and worker protection, consumer governance, data/network security clauses, competition compliance, and outbound platform expansion.
- § 29 · DATA-PROPERTY-RIGHTS
China's Data Property Rights Registration Guide Is Final: The Draft-to-Trial Diff
On 1 July 2026, the National Data Administration issued the Data Property Rights Registration Work Guide (Trial), converting its April 2026 consultation draft into China's first national framework for registering the Right to Hold Data, Right to Use Data and Right to Operate Data. The final text keeps the same six-chapter, 42-article structure, but the diff is not cosmetic: security and public-interest gates are stronger; derived data is now defined; the national infrastructure shifts from a service platform to a service system; registrars face tighter qualification, disclosure, annual-evaluation, change-reporting and exit rules; public-data registration is softened from mandatory to conditional/voluntary wording; unclear contractual entitlement receives a cure path; evidence preservation, not certificate issuance, now starts the validity period; and certificate use is sharpened for data-asset balance-sheet entry, financing guarantees and valuation-based equity contribution.
- § 30 · AI-GOVERNANCE
China's AI-Companion Rule Takes Effect July 15 — A Clause-by-Clause Field Guide to What Actually Changed
China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interaction Services (人工智能拟人化互动服务管理暂行办法) — the world's first dedicated rule on 'companion'-style AI — take effect on 15 July 2026. This DCC brief synthesises three Chinese-language readings published in the days before the effective date: 数据合规肖大国's article-by-article practitioner walkthrough, 网安寻路人 (Hong Yanqing)'s multi-part work on how to scope anthropomorphic interaction (including his 'Sentiment Interaction Event / SIE' indicator system), and AI前沿信息笔记's read of the business-model logic the rule is really aimed at. Three throughlines: (1) what changed between the consultation draft and the final text — real fines were added, a 'continuity (持续性)' qualifier now narrows scope, the emergency-contact duty was widened beyond vulnerable groups, and the mandatory 'human takeover' of at-risk conversations was dropped; (2) the scope question the rule leaves under-specified — which services are 'continuous emotional interaction' at all — and the SIE-style indicator approach practitioners are reaching for to answer it; and (3) the paradigm shift the rule marks, from *content-safety* governance (AI as tool) to *relationship* governance (AI as social role), which finally gives regulators a handle on attention-economy and emotional-dependency business models. For overseas counsel shipping companion, emotional-AI or character-AI products into China: this is the operational checklist and the open-question list, two weeks out.