- The Memorabilia of China’s Internet Development (CN)
- Review of China’s Internet Regulations and Domestic Legislation (Before 2001)
- Recall and Review to the Legal System on DNS in China (CN)
- Regulating the Right of Information Communication in China
- Shaping the Internet in China: Evolution of Political Control over Network Infrastructure and Content (Book, before 2001)
- The Chinese Approach to Electronic Transactions Legislation
Legislations:
- A List of Key Chinese Legislations governning Internet (CN)
- Law of the Peoples Republic of China on Electronic Signature
- Regulation on Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination of Information
- China Internet Domain Name Regulations
- CNNIC Implementing Rules of Domain Name Registration
- Rules for CNNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
- Service Rule on Domain Name Transaction
- Internet Keyword Registration Measure
- CNNIC Implementing Rules of Domain Name Registration
- Hong Kong International Arbitration Center Supplemental Rules to CNNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
- China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Supplemental Rules to CNNIC Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy
- Internet Keyword Disputes Resolution Policy
- Measures for the Administration of Internet E-mail Services
- Provisions on the Administration of Internet News and Inform
- Provisions on the Administration of Internet News and Information Services
- Measures on Administrative Protection of Internet Copyright
- Some Other Legislations
Articles:
- National Cybercrime Legislation Surveyed
- Cybercrime Legislation in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Status Quo and Characters of Cybercrime in China (CN, 2001)
- Book: The Debate on Defining Cybercrime and Its Theoretical Analysis (CN, 2002)
- Book: Comparative Research on Cybercrime (CN, 2005)
- Some Typical Administrative Regulations for the Security of Information infrastructure (CN)
China legislations on cyber crimes:
- NPC Standing Committee Decision on Maintaining Internet Security
- Against Unauthorized Access to Computer Systems:
Article 285 of the Criminal Code of People’s Republic of China - Against affecting the Stability of Computer Systems:
Article 286 of the Criminal Code of People’s Republic of China
(Section 2 of the Article 286: against the creation and propagation of the computer virus.) - Against the Online Thefts and other criminal activities:
Article 287 of the Criminal Code of People’s Republic of China
A general regulation to the online thefts says: “Whoever uses a computer for financial fraud, theft, corruption, misappropriation of public funds, stealing state secrets, or other crimes is to be convicted and punished according to relevant regulations of this law.”. - The Interpretations of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Several Issues concerning the Concrete Application of Law in the Handling of Criminal Cases of Making, Reproducing, Publishing, Selling and Spreading Pornographic Electronic Information by Means of the Internet, Terminal of Mobile Communications and Sound Message Stations (should be visited in the network of City U).
HK Laws against Hacking
HK Laws against Criminal Damage
Laws relating to Pornography
Laws relating to Internet Gambling
III. Critical Information Infrastructure via Legislation
On 16 April 1996, Chinese Central government set up a temporary unit: Work Group of Informationalization (which was substituted by some organ of the Department of Information Industry), which takes the responsibility of constructing information infrastructure. After that, many governmental documents (both in central and local levels) mentioned the term “Information Infrastructure”. In the newest 2006-2020 National Information Development Strategy, Chinese government proposed some aims of the development of information infrastructure. But in China, the term information infrastructure is mostly appeared as slogans, and it rarely lies in regulative provisions. Click here to see a rare example in a provincial regulation, and here (see Art. 5) is another example.
China has promulgated some ordinances on the information safety, apart from the above legislations. The followings are some other focusing on the security of computer, information assurance, information infrastructure, content censorship, and so forth.
l Implementation Rules for Provisional Regulations of the Administration of International Networking of Computer Information in the People’s Republic of China (Should be visited in the network of City U)
l Provisions on the Technical Measures for the Protection of the Security of the Internet (Should be visited in the network of City U)
l Regulations of the People’s Republic of China for Safety Protection of Computer Information Systems (CN)
l A definition of “nocuous information” that should be prohibited can be find here (CN), and one can find more regulations at here, and here (CN) provides some basic regulation to the information infrastructure.
One should remember that besides the legislations, there are some other documents that appeared not in the forms regulatory documents but policy statements, administrative notifications and even slogans in the field of information infrastructure. These documents are also very useful in the empirical research, though legal interpretations and deductive analyses to them may not applicable.