On December 13, 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (“MIIT”) issued the “Industrial and Information Technology Sector Data Security Management Measures (for Trial Implementation)” (《工业和信息化领域数据安全管理办法（试行）》), which came into effect on January 1, 2023 (the “New Measures”).
These New Measures are implementation rules under China’s data security regime applicable to data processing activities in the sectors of industrial and information technology, and corresponding security supervisions. This article provides an overview of some of the important concepts in the New Measures.
