China’s Law-Based Cyberspace Governance in the New Era: Upholding the Rule of Law

– Proceeding from realities

China is the world’s largest developing country and has the largest number of internet users. There are diverse legal subjects, relationships and situations where different laws apply. With all this in mind, China has conducted in-depth research on frontier areas of overbearing importance, employing law-based thinking and approaches to break through bottlenecks in internet development and find solutions for healthy internet growth.

– Innovation-driven cyberspace governance

China has been forward-looking in responding to the risks and challenges brought by new internet technologies, applications, and business forms and models, and promoted innovation in the concept, content, approach and methods of law-based cyberspace governance. By creating and improving rules on algorithm, blockchain technology, and other new technologies and domains, it has filled gaps in key areas where legislation once lagged behind.