To create a good environment for the healthy growth of Internet industry, China government has carried out a series of regulations and laws ever since 1994. These Internet regulations and laws set guidelines as well as alert lines for smooth operations of innumerable Internet companies in China.
For anyone who wants to run a legal Internet business in the Mainland China, it’s compulsory to take these Internet regulations and laws into your minds.
Names of Regulations and Laws:
1. People’s Republic of China Telecom and Information Services Business License
2. Business License for Value-added Telecom Services, People’s Republic of China
3. Administration of Internet Electronic Messaging Services Provisions
Department of Legislation:
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of The People’s Republic of China
Industry and Section Governed:
The whole Internet Industry

Names of Regulations and Laws:
1. Specification for E-Business Model
2. Service Specification for Online Shopping Transactions
Department of Legislation:
Ministry of Commerce, People’s Republic of China
Industry and Section Governed:
E-business

Names of Regulations and Laws:
1. Opinions to Strengthen Supervision and Management of E-business
Department of Legislation:
Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce
Industry and Section Governed:
E-business

Names of Regulations and Laws:
The Interim Provisions on the Administration of Internet Culture
Department of Legislation:
Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Industry and Section Governed:
Internet Video and Internet Games

Names of Regulations and Laws:
1. The Measures for the Administration of the Publication of Audio-Visual Programs through the Internet or Other Information Network,
2. Interim Provisions on the Administration of Chinese-foreign Equity and Contractual Joint Ventures of Radio and Television Program Production.
Department of Legislation:
Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China
Industry and Section Governed:
Internet Video

Names of Regulations and Laws:
Administration of Internet Publishing Tentative Provisions
Department of Legislation:
General Administration of Press and Publication
Industry and Section Governed:
News and Media, Internet Games

Names of Regulations and Laws:
Provisions of People’s Republic of China on the Administration of Map Compilation and Publication
Department of Legislation:
State Bureau of Surveying and Map
Industry and Section Governed: Electric Map

Names of Regulations and Laws:
Regulation on the Administration of Payment and Settlement Systems
Department of Legislation:
Bank of China
China Banking Regulatory Commission
Industry and Section Governed:
Online Payment

Names of Regulations and Laws:
Temporary Regulating Methods of On-line Medicine Information Service
Department of Legislation:
State Drug and Food Administration, People’s Republic of China
Industry and Section Governed:
Medicine Industry E-business