Cyberspace Administration of China · Full chronicle and history

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the State Administration for Market Regulation announced on the evening of October 15 that they had set up a joint investigation team to investigate automobile quality.

On September 30, China's Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice launching a two-month special campaign focused on rectifying five types of short video misconduct: posing as vulnerable groups, fabricating professional qualifications, AI impersonation of people, attracting traffic through displays of wealth and superstition, and making up domestic violence and kidnapping storylines, while strictly prohibiting fake persona content from being pushed through rankings and recommendation slots.

On September 18, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice requiring platforms to clean up negative information inconsistent with official corporate statements, and categorized behaviors such as parodying corporate logos, products, and entrepreneurs' portraits as false and misleading handling scopes, demanding platforms to implement whole-process audits and strict handling of enterprise-related information.

On September 15, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced that two AI API relay stations operated by a technology company in Jiangsu were ordered to rectify and given a warning penalty for failing to conduct safety assessments in accordance with regulations and for posing content safety risks.

On September 2, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China reported on the second phase of the Qinglang special campaign, naming domestic AI platforms such as Doubao, Yuanbao and Qwen for strictly censoring raw training data and restricting the output of non-compliant content.

According to Order No. 23 recently issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China, MCN agencies have been included as responsible parties on a par with platforms. If a streamer under them has problems, the entire MCN may face a joint ban.

The Cyberspace Administration of China has announced a batch of enforcement actions against malicious hype of company-related information, involving accounts that published false information about Li Auto, hyped negative information about companies, and maliciously attacked corporate executives.

On July 23, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Emergency Management jointly issued a notice, deploying a special campaign to rectify illegal and harmful information related to disaster incidents during the flood season, severely cracking down on online speech concerning disasters. On the same day, the Ministry of Public Security publicized 20 typical cases of disaster-related rumors.

On July 21, 2026, the CCP Central Committee's Cyberspace Administration of China and other departments issued a plan to advance IPv6 single-stack technology innovation and application. Foreign media analysis argues that underlying architectural reforms such as NAT removal and enhanced source address verification could further deepen online censorship and real-name tracking.

the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Cyberspace Administration of China releases a new draft of the Internet Information Service Management Measures, increasing the articles from the current 27 to 94, and incorporating content such as artificial intelligence, self-media, recommendation algorithms, and jurisdiction over overseas information.

On June 14, 2026, a tech uploader on Bilibili posted a video analyzing the Cyberspace Administration of China's "Regulations on Online Review Activities," questioning that the new rules could easily be abused by manufacturers in practice as a tool to pressure the removal of negative reviews.

The Cyberspace Administration of China issued new regulations prohibiting the dissemination and discussion of topics related to U.S. stocks and other overseas investments, targeting internet platforms and domestic self-media for rectification.

In June 2026, online information revealed that the Cyberspace Administration of China had issued an order demanding a comprehensive interception and ban — covering clips, text, and audio/video — on the special video program about Wang Hongwen produced by Chai Jing.

On May 29, the Cyberspace Administration of China issued a notice deciding to launch a two-month nationwide special action titled "Qinglang: Optimizing the Business Network Environment and Cracking Down on Malicious Hype of Enterprise-Related Information," aimed at combating malicious hype targeting enterprises online.

In December 2025, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced that Hu Chenfeng had long posted so-called "Android people" and "Apple people" remarks on multiple platforms that "incited group confrontation," and that the relevant accounts on each platform had been closed.

On August 4, China's Cyberspace Administration announced the investigation and handling of a batch of so-called accounts that maliciously bad-mouthed companies, and HarmonyOS Smart Life (Hongmeng Zhixing) subsequently issued a statement in response to the relevant complaints.

During the 2025 Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei floods, the Cyberspace Administration issued a press release and, together with the police, said it would crack down on military-related rumors.

In a speech at the end of 2024, Gao Shanwen expressed sensitive views on the cyclical bubbles, consumption structure, actual growth rate, and future low growth of the Chinese economy. The speech was subsequently banned, marking his final public address.

In April 2024, Apple said that China's Cyberspace Administration requested, on the grounds of "national security," that it remove Threads from the Chinese App Store. The platform where Fan Yun's team published the relevant video was Threads.

The Qinglang Campaign proposes ten task objectives, requiring platforms such as Douyin and Bilibili to adjust their algorithms and recommendation mechanisms to ensure content distribution aligns with so-called mainstream values.

According to a 2024 report by the Financial Times, a research institution under the Cyberspace Administration of China has developed a chatbot that allows large language models to learn Xi Jinping Thought and official documents.

The Cyberspace Administration of China is targeting foreign-related speech, requiring that information regarding domestic and international current affairs, public policy, and social events be labeled with its source, and linking account monetization privileges to compliance status.

The Cyberspace Administration of China has introduced regulations for managing internet comment interactions, bringing comments, replies, messages, bullet chats, and likes under supervision, and allowing platforms to take measures such as account bans and silencing.

The Cyberspace Administration of China has launched a special rectification targeting financial information, identifying activities such as distorting interpretations of financial policies and macro data, or maliciously betting against financial markets, as targets for governance, covering financial self-media accounts and information platforms.

Two days after Didi listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced the launch of a network security review of the company; its app was subsequently forced off shelves, and it was ultimately delisted in June 2022 and hit with a massive fine.

On April 9, 2021, the Reporting Center of the Cyberspace Administration of China launched a special reporting zone for harmful information related to historical nihilism, accepting reports of distortions of the history of the Party and the history of New China, attacks on the Party's leadership, and so on.

The video says that after Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang warned about the spread of the virus and conditions in the hospital, he was ordered to receive an admonition, write and sign a confession statement; the incident subsequently drew international attention.

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has legally closed the Weibo account of Ren Zhiqiang, who had nearly 37 million followers, on the grounds of "continuously publishing illegal information."

In 2014, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Leadership Group, with Xi Jinping serving as its head.

Lu Wei, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, presided over the Social Responsibility Forum for Internet Celebrities and put forward seven bottom lines; afterwards, internet big-V Xue Manzi was arrested in Beijing on suspicion of soliciting prostitutes and was forced to make a televised confession.

In the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Chinese Communist Party labeled some individuals as rightists because intellectuals had voiced their opinions, and the people involved and their families subsequently suffered long-term political and social consequences.