The Chinese government published China’s Law-Based Cyberspace Governance in the New Era white paper to introduce China’s progress and experience in law-based cyberspace governance.
Adapting to the developing trends of global information technology, China set out from its own realities to integrate law-based cyberspace governance into the overall national strategy of the rule of law, gaining knowledge and experience in the process. It has pioneered a distinctive Chinese approach to law-based cyberspace governance.
– People-centered development
In China, the people contribute ideas and solutions and play a principal role. Their rights, interests, aspirations and wellbeing are the focus in every aspect of cyber legislation, law enforcement, judiciary work, public education, and all other areas of law-based cyberspace governance.
– Further development of the internet
Under law-based cyberspace governance, China has guided and regulated efforts to build a high-quality digital China – improving the governance system for the digital economy, the legal framework of digital government, and the digital society initiative.
– 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.
– Openness and cooperation
China has played an active part in working with other countries to formulate rules for cyberspace governance, and engaged in international exchanges and cooperation in law-based cyberspace governance.
– A guarantee of the transformation from scale to strength
China have the world’s largest number of netizens, the largest and most advanced fiber-optic broadband and mobile telecommunication networks, and world-leading 5G technology, industry and applications. China’s digital economy has been growing with a strong momentum. New internet technologies are widely used in areas such as education, employment, social security, medical and health care, sports, housing, transport, support for persons with disabilities, and elderly care. Internet Plus services are running on a track of healthy development in accordance with the law.
– Law-based national governance fully implemented in cyberspace
Cyber law enforcement has continued to strengthen. Rules of cyber adjudication have improved, more online cases have been handled.
Knowledge of cyber laws has been further spread, and the Chinese people’s awareness of and literacy in the law has increased.
– Contributing ideas, experience and solutions to global internet governance
China has taken an active part in global internet governance, promoting the G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative and the Global Data Security Initiative, and other proposals and declarations.
