§ READING MAP

Read by theme, not by date.

84 briefings, organized into reading tracks that follow the structure of the regime. Each brief can sit in more than one track — that's how the topics actually connect.

New to the Chinese data regime? Begin with the Overview — a five-minute visual intro to the foundation laws, the regulators, and the Subject × Object framework. Then pick a track below. To see how everything connects, open the knowledge graph.

Data rights & the data-element market .

41 BRIEFS

The Data 20 Articles world: structural separation of data property rights (hold / use / operate), the data-source's right, data brokery, data trading and registration, and data-as-asset. Start here if you're trying to understand how China is building a market for data.

Personal information .

43 BRIEFS

PIPL and the personal-information regime: lawful bases, the PIPO role, the criminal threshold, anonymization (the gateway out of PIPL scope), and the harder edge cases — platform gig workers, GenAI causation.

AI governance .

18 BRIEFS

The fast-moving AI layer: the Agent Rules and their risk/governance frameworks, algorithmic recommendation and its filing regime, open-source training-data compliance, and liability when GenAI causation is unclear.

Data security & classification .

34 BRIEFS

The DSL spine: data classification and grading, the important-data tier and how to identify it, anonymization as a security process, and the technical-standards layer.

Cross-border data .

13 BRIEFS

Getting data across the border: the assessment / SCC / certification paths, FTZ negative lists, the important-data choke point, cross-border discovery, and the trusted-data-space experiments.

Enforcement .

22 BRIEFS

What the regulators actually police: MIIT's batched app naming, SAMR's platform penalties, the criminal tier. See the live chronicle on the Enforcement tracker.