The regulations aim to protect the security of the CII and impose more compliance obligations in support of the Network Security Law.

By Hui Xu and Kieran Donovan

On July 30, 2021, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) published the Security Protection Regulations on the Critical Information Infrastructure (the Regulations), which was adopted by the State Council on April 27, 2021. The Regulations took effect on September 1, 2021, along with the recently passed Data Security