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China: Online news/information services hit with localisation requirements

Announcement

02 May 2017

May 2nd, 2017 - The Chinese government announced a local content requirement on news services.

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2

2 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

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Implementation date

02 May 2017

Revocation date:

No revocation date

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