Complete the MIIT filing for an app internet information service and keep it separate from provider and distribution-platform governance.
A new app must complete the applicable filing before service begins. Filing does not replace licences, content controls, data and personal-information duties, security assessment or platform review.
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Complete the before a new covered app starts service. Identify the , , , , and any ; then complete each role's separate filing, licence, review, content, data, personal-information, minors, complaint, and incident duties.
Identify the that files the internet information service, the that owns or operates the service, each , each and any that preinstalls the app. One organisation may hold several roles, but the filings and evidence remain role-specific.
The applies to an providing an app internet information service in China. The 2022 app provisions separately regulate app providers and distribution services in China. An must file with its provincial cyberspace authority within 30 days after going online; that platform filing is not the sponsor's MIIT filing. The filing notice routes the sponsor to the provincial communications administration for its place of residence. If a proposed sponsor has no clear place of residence for that route, confirm the accepted filing entity and channel with the access provider, distribution platform, or relevant provincial administration before launch; the notice does not state a general foreign-sponsor exemption.
No. The sponsor's MIIT filing covers the app internet information service and is submitted through an access provider or distribution platform to the sponsor's provincial communications administration. A distribution platform separately files with its provincial cyberspace authority within 30 days after the platform goes online.
Before a new covered app begins service, the submits the filing through its or distribution platform to the provincial communications administration for the sponsor's place of residence. The filing uses the . Domain names, and other network resources must satisfy the network-resource rules cited in the notice.
The sponsor submits the registration form and commitments. Apps providing news, publishing, education, film and television, religious or other services that require prior approval must also submit the relevant competent-department document. When materials are complete and accurate, the provincial communications administration has 20 working days to complete the filing, issue a filing number and publish the filing information. Incomplete or inaccurate materials are not filed, and the authority must give the reason.
The transition for apps already operating when the notice was issued ran from September 2023 through March 2024, followed by an inspection phase from April through June 2024. Since July 2024 the filing programme has operated as continuing administration. Those expired transition dates do not excuse a currently operating unfiled app.
Filing is only one launch condition. An must maintain information-content controls, required user identity verification for information publishing or instant-messaging services, applicable service licences, security-defect response, full-lifecycle data security, personal-information rules, protections for minors, published management rules, complaint handling and records of user enforcement.
Before launching a new technology, application or function with , identify the national rule governing the Article 14 security assessment and record the decision and result. The app provisions state the trigger but do not supply a universal assessment form or category list. A distribution platform must verify provider identity, licences and any required security assessment; review new listings and updates; monitor listed apps; and preserve and report suspension or takedown actions.
No. The filing number records the app internet information service filing. It does not replace a required sector licence or approval, app-provider and distribution-platform duties under the 2022 provisions, personal-information and data-security compliance, a required security assessment, network security classified-protection work, or continuing monitoring and incident response.
For each release, link the app identifier and version to its sponsor, provider, network resources, distribution channels, filing number, licences, feature assessments, privacy and data controls, platform reviews and approval owner. Keep the actual filing receipt and displayed-number evidence, not only a spreadsheet entry.
Reopen the record when the sponsor, app name, service, domain or IP resources, licence, distribution channel, material feature, data processing, intended users or service status changes. File changes or cancellation where required and repeat platform or security review when the change affects those controls.
Turn app filing and governance duties into named owners, release gates, filed records and continuing evidence.
Connect the app sponsor, MIIT filing, displayed number, provincial platform filing, feature assessment, release and later changes.
Check the China Cybersecurity Law scope decision and unresolved launch questions with Sorena.