In the final days of 2017, the vice chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) submitted a report to the Standing Committee of the NPC detailing the Network Security Law enforcement inspection project that began earlier in the year. This inspection had focused on five key points under the government’s overall data protection strategy:

• Legal education
• Supporting laws and regulations
• Protection of critical information infrastructures and the application of graded protection for network security
• Illegal network information
• Personal information protections

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