China aims to build up a comprehensive legislation regime, by releasing the Cybersecurity Law as a foundation, and followed up a series of measures and rules to facilitate the implementation of the law.

The Cybersecurity Law, designed to protect data outflow, has put a stringent environment in relation to the entities where cyber data is handled, with potential impact on business operations.

Actions shall be taken to adapt the laws, particularly within applications areas such as VPN, cloud services and cross-border data transfer.

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