Decision of the NPC Standing Committee on Amending the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China (全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于修改《中华人民共和国网络安全法》的决定)
The decision adopted by the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress on 28 October 2025, promulgated by Presidential Order No. 61 the same day and in force from 1 January 2026. It adds an article on artificial intelligence to the Cybersecurity Law. The inspected text is Xinhua's, as posted on gov.cn; the republished Law was not retrieved.
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- Published 2025-10-28
- Effective 2026-01-01
Adopted and promulgated on 28 October 2025 (the decision's heading and Presidential Order No. 61); recorded as its date of issue. Effective 1 January 2026 (the decision's closing sentence and the order). The gov.cn posting of the decision text is dated 29 October 2025.
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- 全国人民代表大会常务委员会关于修改《中华人民共和国网络安全法》的决定 (Decision of the NPC Standing Committee on Amending the Cybersecurity Law) 中国政府网 (www.gov.cn), 要闻 (source: 新华社) · published 2025-10-29 · Retrieved on 2026-10-27 (SHA-256 f3037ae7dc6bf999fffbc1a4484ef5230f26333a913ca4590b7c50c0ee5a3903). gov.cn news-list page dated 2025-10-29 08:23 reproducing the Xinhua release of 28 October 2025, retrieved 2026-10-27. Not the NPC Gazette or npc.gov.cn text (npc.gov.cn not retrieved). The English in parentheses in the title is a machine translation. · In Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans)
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