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From Trade Countermeasures to Digital Governance: The Proposed Anti-Discrimination Clauses in the Revision of China's E-Commerce Law
Addressing foreign restrictions in digital sectors such as platform access, app distribution, and data interfaces, SAMR and MOFCOM propose adding anti-discrimination clauses to the E-Commerce Law. Acting as a scenario-specific extension of existing foreign countermeasure frameworks, the clause aims to build a clear and restrained legal defense tool via defined triggers, procedural safeguards, and safe harbor mechanisms, stabilizing compliance expectations for cross-border e-commerce and MNCs.
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Triad of Promotion, Openness, and Regulation: Insights into the Revision of China's E-Commerce Law
Tailored to emerging sectors like cross-border e-commerce and digital payments, the revised E-Commerce Law establishes three core pillars: promotion, openness, and regulation. The draft explicitly supports technological innovations, introduces international treaty application and "electronic document" mutual recognition, and implements a foreign-related mechanism encompassing investigations, multilateral consultations, and Reliable Entity Lists against foreign discrimination to safeguard outbound enterprises
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Five Departments Issue "Provisions on the Management of Anthropomorphic Interactive AI Services (Provisional)"
Effective July 15, 2026, this rule outlines the compliance obligations for AI platforms providing persistent emotional interaction, including safety assessments and model filing
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NDRC Officially Releases the "China Business Environment Development Report (2026)
Focusing on corporate lifecycles, the report reviews key achievements in eliminating market access barriers, rectifying cut-throat competition, and regulating administrative enforcement.
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MIIT Issues "Opinions on Innovating and Developing 'AI+' in Information and Communications (2026-2028)"
The Opinions propose to launch over 30 mature commercial application cases by 2028, focusing on four major clusters: telecom network operations, industrial vertical fields, consumer daily life services, and public welfare digital governance solutions, aiming to accelerate the deep integration of AI and the ICT industry
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NDRC Unveils Five Core Work Approaches for China's AI Industry During the "15th Five-Year Plan" Period
Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Innovation and High-Tech Development Department of the NDRC, disclosed China's strategic approaches for the AI industry during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period at a Shanghai Municipal Government press conference. The nation will focus on five key pillars: accelerating independent innovation, strengthening application driving, deepening ecosystem synergy, adhering to open and win-win cooperation, and ensuring security and controllability, balancing industrial growth with safety governance.
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Dentons Law Firm Releases Research Report: "National Security Review Process, Regulatory Red Lines, and Corporate Compliance Practice in Light of Meta's Blocked Acquisition"
Based on two major regulatory events—the NDRC's blocking of Meta's acquisition of the Chinese AI platform Manus and the illegal graphite export by a domestic company—this report systematically analyzes the legal grounds and review mechanisms of China's foreign investment security review and export controls. It highlights regulatory red lines across five core security sectors (technology, industry, resources, data, and national defense) and provides full-process cross-border compliance guidance and risk prevention frameworks for domestic enterprises, foreign acquirers, and strategic material exporters.
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SAMR Convenes Meeting on Rectifying "Inward-Looking" Competition and Price Law Amendments
SAMR is actively amending the Price Law to refine rules on unfair pricing. In H1, 11,465 unfair competition cases were investigated, with 7 platforms fined 3.597 billion yuan for issues like "ghost kitchens".
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MOFCOM and SAMR Jointly Issue "Action Plan for Service Trade Standardization (2026-2030)
Focusing on standard formulation for new services and technologies, the plan deploys technical innovation and IP protection across digital trade and professional services, aiming to align China's service trade standards with international rules
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CAC Beijing and Municipal Departments Jointly Issue "Negative List for Cross-Border Data Transfer in Beijing Two Zones
Beijing pioneers extending the negative list mechanism for crossborder data transfer citywide. The new list covers 9 sectors, 67 scenarios, and significantly streamlines data export compliance for MNCs
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