The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) once again solicited public comments on the Regulations on the Protection of Minors Online (Draft for Solicitation of Comments).

According to the news of the WeChat public account of China on March 14, in order to create a healthy, civilized and orderly network environment, protect the physical and mental health of minors, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of minors in cyberspace, in accordance with the relevant legislative planning and arrangements, the State Internet Information Office drafted the "Regulations on the Protection of Minors online (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)" and solicited public opinions. Since then, the State Internet Information Office, together with the Ministry of Justice, has revised and improved the Regulations on the Protection of Minors Online (Draft for Solicitation of Comments) in accordance with the newly revised Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors, the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Personal Information, and other laws and public feedback. In order to further promote scientific legislation, democratic legislation, and legislation according to law, and to improve the quality of legislation, it is hereby open to the public again for comments.

The Draft for Comments consists of seven chapters and sixty-seven articles, the main contents of which include:

(1) On strengthening the cultivation of minors' online literacy

In response to the problem that some minors' online literacy needs to be improved, and their ability to use the Internet is not strong in a scientific, civilized, safe, and rational manner, the Draft for Comments stipulates: First, include online literacy education in the content of school quality education, and formulate assessment indicators for minors' online literacy (Article 13). The second is to improve minors' access to the Internet, providing high-quality online literacy education courses through methods such as appointing guidance teachers or government procurement of services (Article 14). The third is to clarify the obligations of minors to protect minors' networks that relevant venues providing Internet access service facilities for minors, as well as the functions that minors' Internet access protection software and smart terminal products specifically intended for minors' use (articles 15 and 19). The fourth is to strengthen the responsibility of schools and guardians for network literacy education, establish and complete systems for students to use the Internet in school, and strengthen guardians' guidance and supervision of minors' use of the Internet (articles 16 and 17). Fifth, encourage and support the research and development, production, and use of network technologies, products and services that specifically target minors and adapt to the laws and characteristics of minors' physical and mental health development (article 18). Sixth, strengthen the responsibility of important Internet platform service providers in the protection of minors online, and set up special obligations (article 20).

(2) On strengthening norms for online information content

In response to issues such as the impact of online illegal and negative information on minors' physical and mental health, the recurrence of cyberbullying incidents, and the use of the Internet by lawbreakers to induce minors to commit crimes or crimes, the Draft for Comments stipulates: First, encourage and support the production, reproduction, publication, and dissemination of online information conducive to the healthy growth of minors (Article 21). The second is to strengthen the management of information content, making corresponding norms for information containing content that endangers minors' physical and mental health and information that may affect minors' physical and mental health, clarifying the disposal measures and reporting obligations for network product and service providers to discover relevant information (articles 22 to 24, 26, and 30). The third is to prohibit cyberbullying against minors, ensuring that minors and their guardians exercise their right to notify (Article 27). Fourth, it is prohibited to use the Network to organize, coerce, induce, instigate, deceive, or assist minors to commit negative conduct, serious negative conduct, or illegal or criminal conduct (Article 28). Fifth, online education network products and services that target minors are required to conform to the characteristics of minors' physical and mental development and cognitive ability (Article 29). Sixth, clarify the news media's obligation to protect minors, requiring objective, prudent, and appropriate reporting on incidents involving minors (Article 31).

(3) On strengthening the protection of minors' personal information

In response to issues such as the indiscriminate collection and abuse of minors' personal information and insufficient protection, the Draft for Comments clarifies: First, clarify the requirements for network service providers to collect minors' true identity information (article 33). The second is to stipulate the basic principles, informed consent, notification rules, and provision rules for personal information processors handling minors' personal information (articles 34 to 36 and 38). The third is to stipulate the special obligations that personal information processors need to perform when handling minors' sensitive personal information (Article 37). The fourth is to clarify the guardianship duties of guardians in the protection of minors' personal information (article 39). Fifth, clarify the obligations of personal information processors to cooperate, the requirements for emergency handling of security incidents, restrictions on minors' access to personal information, and personal information compliance audit requirements (articles 40 to 42 and 44). Sixth, strengthen the protection of minors' private information. (Article 43).

(4) On strengthening the prevention and control of minors' online addiction

In response to issues such as some minors' addiction to online games, online live broadcasting, online audio and video and other network products and services, minors' irrational online consumption, participation in the chaos of the "rice circle", and "Internet addiction correction institutions" infringing on minors' physical and mental health, the Draft for Comments provides: First, it is strictly forbidden to interfere with minors' online addiction in a manner that infringes on minors' physical and mental health (article 46). The second is to strengthen the prevention and intervention of schools and guardians in minors' addiction to the Internet, increase teachers' ability to early identify and intervene in minors' addiction to the Internet, and strengthen guardians' supervision of minors' safe and rational use of the Internet (Articles 47 and 48). The third is to clarify the responsibilities and obligations of the platform, requiring relevant entities to establish and improve the anti-addiction system, reasonably restrict the consumption behavior of minors, and take measures to prevent and resist the tendency of traffic to be supreme and other negative values (Articles 49 to 52). The fourth is to improve the provisions on the real-name system for online games, establish game rules to prevent minors from indulging in online games, classify game products and give them age-appropriate tips (articles 53 and 54). Fifth, clarify the responsibilities of relevant state departments in efforts to prevent and control minors' online addiction (articles 55 and 56).

In addition, the Draft for Comments also stipulates corresponding legal liabilities for relevant illegal acts (Chapter VI).

The full text is as follows:

Regulations on the Protection of Minors Online (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1: These Regulations are formulated on the basis of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Minors", the "Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China", the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of Personal Information", and other laws, so as to create a healthy, civilized, and orderly network environment, protect the physical and mental health of minors, and safeguard minors' lawful rights and interests in cyberspace.

Article 2: Efforts to protect minors online shall adhere to the principle of the most favorable benefit to minors, take the socialist core values as the guide, adapt to the laws and characteristics of minors' physical and mental health development and cyberspace, and implement social co-governance.

Article 3: The state internet information departments are responsible for overall planning and coordination of efforts to protect minors online, and are to do a good job of relevant efforts to protect minors online on the basis of their duties.

The State press and publication departments and the State Council's relevant departments for education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, health and health, market supervision and management, radio and television, and other such relevant departments are to do a good job of protecting minors online in accordance with their respective duties.

Relevant local departments at the county level or above are to do a good job of online protection efforts for relevant minors in accordance with their respective duties.

Article 4: Communist Youth Leagues, women's federations, trade unions, disabled persons' federations, working committees on caring for the next generation, youth federations, student federations, Young Pioneers, and other people's organizations, relevant social organizations, and grassroots mass autonomous organizations, shall assist relevant departments in doing a good job of protecting minors online, preserving minors' lawful rights and interests in cyberspace.

Article 5: Families, schools, and other educational establishments shall educate and guide minors to participate in activities beneficial to their physical and mental health, make scientific, civilized, safe, and rational use of the Internet, and prevent and intervene in minors' addiction to the Internet.

Article 6: Network product and service providers, personal information processors, and manufacturers and sellers of smart terminal products shall comply with laws, regulations, and rules, respect social morality, abide by commercial ethics, be honest and creditworthy, perform their obligations to protect minors online, and bear social responsibility.

Article 7: Network product and service providers, personal information processors, and manufacturers and sellers of smart terminal products shall accept government and social oversight, cooperate with relevant departments in lawfully carrying out oversight and inspections involving efforts involving the protection of minors online, establish convenient, reasonable, and effective channels for complaints and reports, and use conspicuous means to announce complaints and reporting channels and methods, promptly accepting and handling public complaints and reports.

Article 8: Where any organization or individual discovers violations of the provisions of these Regulations, they may make complaints or reports to relevant departments such as for internet information, press and publication, education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, health and health, market supervision and management, radio and television, and so forth. Departments receiving complaints or reports shall promptly handle them in accordance with law; where they do not fall within the responsibilities of that department, they shall promptly transfer them to the departments with the authority to handle them.

Article 9: Network-related industry organizations shall strengthen industry self-discipline, draft industry norms related to the online protection of minors, guide members in performing their online protection obligations, and strengthen online protection of minors.

Article 10: News media shall use methods such as news reports, special columns (programs), and public interest advertisements to carry out publicity on the legal system, policy measures, and relevant knowledge for the protection of minors online, conducting public opinion oversight of conduct infringing on minors' online rights and interests, and guiding the entire society to jointly participate in the protection of minors online.

Article 11: The State encourages and supports the strengthening of scientific research and personnel training in the field of online protection of minors, and carries out international exchanges and cooperation.

Article 12: Organizations and individuals that have made outstanding contributions to efforts to protect minors online are to be given commendations and awards in accordance with relevant national provisions.

Chapter II: Cultivating Network Literacy

Article 13: The administrative department for education under the State Council shall include online literacy education in the content of school quality education, and work with the State Internet Information Department to draft indicators for assessing minors' online literacy.

Administrative departments for education shall guide and support schools in carrying out online literacy education for minors, focusing on online moral awareness and codes of conduct, online rule of law concepts and codes of conduct, network use capacity building, personal and property safety protection, and so forth, to cultivate minors' awareness of network security, civilized literacy, behavioral habits, and protective skills.

Article 14: People's governments at the county level or above shall scientifically plan and rationally make arrangements, strengthen the establishment of public cultural facilities providing public interest Online services, improve minors' access to the Internet, and promote the balanced and coordinated development of public interest Online services.

Local people's governments at the county level or above shall provide students with high-quality online literacy education courses through methods such as equipping primary and secondary schools with guidance teachers with corresponding professional abilities or government procurement of services.

Article 15: Schools, communities, libraries, cultural centers, youth palaces, and other such venues providing Internet access service facilities for minors shall provide minors with online guidance and a safe and healthy online environment by arranging for professionals and recruiting volunteers, teachers, parents, and other such methods, as well as by installing minors' network protection software or employing other security protection technical measures.

Article 16: Schools shall include content such as scientific, civilized, safe, and reasonable use of the Internet in educational and teaching activities, and reasonably use the Internet to carry out teaching activities, establish and complete management systems for students to access the Internet during their time at school, conduct network literacy education for students, lawfully standardize the management of intelligent terminal products brought into school by minor students, help students develop good Internet habits, cultivate students' awareness of network security, and increase students' ability to obtain, analyze, and judge network information.

Article 17: Guardians of minors shall proactively learn network knowledge, improve their own network literacy, standardize their own use of the Internet, and strengthen education, demonstration, guidance, and supervision of minors' use of the Internet.

Article 18: The State encourages and supports the research and development, production, and use of online protection software, intelligent terminal products, youth models, special zones for minors, and other network technologies, products, and services that specifically target minors and adapt to the laws and characteristics of minors' physical and mental health development, and encourages the strengthening of the establishment and transformation of online barrier-free environments, promoting minors to broaden their horizons, improve their quality, cultivate their sentiments, and delight their bodies and minds.

Article 19: Software for the protection of minors' access to the Internet, and smart terminal products specifically intended for use by minors, shall have functions such as effectively identifying illegal information and information that might affect minors' physical and mental health, protecting minors' personal information rights and interests, preventing minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, and facilitating guardians' performance of guardianship duties.

The State Internet Information Departments, together with the relevant departments of the State Council, are to clarify the relevant technical standards or requirements for minors' online protection software and smart terminal products specifically intended for minors' use on the basis of the needs of efforts to protect minors' online use, guiding relevant industry organizations to conduct assessments of the effectiveness of the use of minors' online protection software and smart terminal products specifically intended for minors' use, and announcing the assessment results to the public.

Manufacturers of smart terminal products shall install software for the protection of minors on the Internet before the product leaves the factory, or use conspicuous methods to inform users of the installation channels and methods. Sellers of smart terminal products shall employ conspicuous methods to inform users of the installation of minors' Internet access protection software and the channels and methods for installation before the sale of the products.

Guardians of minors shall reasonably use and guide minors in using Internet access protection software, smart terminal products, and so forth, to create a good family environment for network use.

Article 20: Important Internet platform service providers with a huge number of minor users and a significant influence on groups of minors shall perform the following obligations:

(1) In the design, research, development, operation, and other such stages of Internet platform services, fully consider the characteristics of minors' physical and mental health development, and periodically carry out assessments of the impact of minors' online protection;

(2) Providing juvenile models or special areas for minors, and so forth, to facilitate minors' access to products or services within platforms beneficial to physical and mental health;

(3) Follow national provisions to establish and complete systems for compliance systems for the protection of minors online, establishing independent bodies composed primarily of external members to conduct oversight of the situation of minors' online protection;

(4) Follow the principles of openness, fairness, and impartiality, draft special platform rules, clarifying the obligations of product or service providers within the platform to protect minors online, and conspicuously prompting minor users of their lawful rights to online protection and remedies for suffering online infringements;

(5) Stop providing services to product or service providers within platforms that seriously violate laws or administrative regulations that infringe upon minors' physical or mental health, or infringe upon minors' other lawful rights and interests;

(6) Publish a special report on the social responsibility for the protection of minors online each year, and accept social oversight through methods such as public comments.

Chapter III: Specifications for Network Information Content

Article 21: The State encourages and supports the production, reproduction, publication, and dissemination of online information such as carrying forward the core socialist values and china's excellent traditional culture, cultivating minors' feelings of family and country and good moral character, enhancing their awareness and ability to innovate, cultivating good living habits and behavioral habits, and raising safety awareness and skills, creating a clear cyberspace and a good online ecology conducive to the healthy growth of minors.

Article 22: It is prohibited to use the Internet to produce, reproduce, publish, or disseminate information containing content that endangers the physical and mental health of minors.

It is forbidden to send information to minors that contains content that is harmful or may affect the physical or mental health of minors.

Article 23: It is prohibited to produce, reproduce, publish, disseminate, or hold obscene and pornographic online information about minors.

It is forbidden to lure or force minors to produce, reproduce, publish, or disseminate text, pictures, audio, or video that might expose their personal privacy, and minors must not be tricked or forced to watch obscene and pornographic online information.

Article 24: Where network products and services contain information that might trigger or induce minors to imitate unsafe conduct, carry out conduct that violates social morality, generate negative emotions, or cultivate negative hobbies, and so forth that might affect minors' physical and mental health, organizations and individuals producing, reproducing, publishing, or disseminating that information shall give conspicuous reminders before the information is displayed.

Article 25: The State Internet Information Departments, together with the State press and publication and film departments, and the State Council departments for education, telecommunications, public security, culture and tourism, radio and television, are to determine, on the basis of the provisions of article 24 of these Regulations, the specific types, scope, judgment standards, and prompting methods for information that might affect minors' physical and mental health.

Article 26: No organization or individual must produce, reproduce, publish, or disseminate information that might affect minors' physical and mental health in network products and services specifically targeting minors.

Network product and service providers must not present information that may affect minors' physical and mental health as provided for in article 24 of these Regulations in key links such as the top screen pop-up window hot search on the home page that is conspicuous in products or services and is likely to attract users' attention.

Article 27: No organization or individual must use the Internet to carry out online bullying conduct such as insulting, slandering, threatening, or maliciously damaging the image of minors in the form of text, pictures, audio or video, and so forth.

Network product and service providers shall set up functions and channels that facilitate minors and their guardians to preserve evidence of being victims of cyberbullying and to exercise their right to notify. Minors who have been subjected to cyberbullying and their guardians have the right to notify network product and service providers of necessary measures such as deleting, blocking, disconnecting links, restricting account functions, and closing accounts. After receiving notice, network product and service providers shall promptly employ necessary measures to stop it and prevent information proliferation.

Article 28: No organization or individual may use the network to organize, coerce, induce, instigate, deceive, or assist minors in carrying out negative conduct, serious negative conduct, or illegal or criminal conduct.

Article 29: Online education network products and services that target minors shall conform to the characteristics of minors' physical and mental development and cognitive abilities at different ages.

Online education network product and service providers with minors as the service target shall comply with relevant standards and systems such as institutional settings, personnel qualifications, and fee supervision formulated by the administrative departments for education in conjunction with relevant departments, and reasonably set time periods, durations, and content in accordance with provisions, must not insert online game links, and must not push advertisements and other information unrelated to teaching.

Article 30: Network product and service providers shall strengthen management of information published by users, employing effective measures to prevent violations of the information provided for in articles 22, 23, 26, 27, 1, 28, or 29, paragraph 2 of these Regulations, and where information found violating the provisions of these Regulations, they shall immediately stop transmitting relevant information, employ disposition measures such as deletion, blocking, or disconnection, to prevent information from spreading, and preserve relevant records, And report to the Internet information, public security and other departments.

Where network products and service providers discover that users have published information that might affect minors' physical and mental health as provided for in article 24 of these Regulations without giving a conspicuous prompt, they shall make a prompt or notify the user to give a reminder; where no prompt is given, the information must not be transmitted.

Article 31: News media shall objectively, prudently, and appropriately report on incidents involving minors, and must not use the Internet to publicize conduct such as corporal punishment of minors, insults to the personal dignity of minors, and juvenile delinquency, and must not disclose through the Internet the names, residences, photographs, and other information that might identify minors' true identities.

Article 32: Where the State Departments for Internet Information, Press and Publications, and the relevant departments of the State Council discover violations of the information provided for in Articles 22, 23, 26, 27, 1, 28, or 29, 29 of these Regulations, and discover that the information provided for in Article 24 of these Regulations has not been conspicuously prompted, they shall require network product and service providers to stop transmission, lawfully employ measures such as deleting, blocking, or disconnecting links, and preserve relevant records; The relevant agencies should be notified to take technical measures and other necessary measures to interrupt transmission.

Chapter IV: Protection of Personal Information

Article 33: Network service providers providing minors with services such as information release and instant messaging shall request that minors or their guardians provide information on the minor's true identity when confirming the provision of services. Where minors or their guardians do not provide information on minors' true identities, network service providers must not provide relevant services for minors.

Online live streaming service providers must not provide online live streaming publisher account registration services for minors under the age of 16; where minors over the age of 16 provide online live streaming publisher account registration services, their identity information shall be authenticated and their guardians' consents are to be obtained.

Online live streaming service providers shall establish mechanisms for dynamic verification of the true identity information of online live broadcast publishers, and must not provide live streaming release services for those that do not comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

Article 34: Where personal information processors handle minors' personal information through the Internet, they shall follow the principles of lawfulness, propriety, necessity, and good faith, disclose special handling rules, clearly indicate the purpose, method, and scope of processing, and lawfully inform relevant matters provided for by laws and administrative regulations.

Article 35: Where personal information processors handle minors under the age of 14 based on individual consent, they shall obtain the consent of the minor's guardian.

Where there is a change in the purpose, method of handling, and types of personal information handled by minors' personal information, the personal information processor shall obtain a new consent in accordance with law.

Article 36: Personal information processors shall strictly abide by the relevant provisions on the scope of necessary personal information, and must not compel minors or their guardians to consent to non-essential personal information handling for any reason, and must not refuse minors to use their basic functional services because minors or their guardians do not agree to handle their non-essential personal information or withdraw consent.

Article 37: Where personal information processors handle sensitive personal information of minors, they shall employ strict protection measures with specific purposes and sufficient necessity; conduct prior assessments of the impact of personal information protection and record the circumstances of handling; lawfully inform the need to handle sensitive personal information and the impact on individual rights and interests, and obtain separate consent.

The personal information protection impact assessment reports and records of handling situations provided for in the preceding paragraph shall be kept for at least three years.

Article 38: In principle, personal information processors must not provide minors' personal information they handle to others, and where it is truly necessary to provide it to others, they shall conduct an assessment of the impact of personal information protection in advance, and lawfully inform minors or their guardians of the recipient's name or name, contact information, purpose of processing, method of processing, and types of personal information, and obtain separate consent. The recipient shall handle minors' personal information within the scope of the above-mentioned purposes of processing, methods of processing, and types of personal information. Where the receiving party changes the original purpose or method of processing, it shall obtain a new consent in accordance with law.

Article 39: Guardians of minors shall correctly perform guardianship duties, educate and guide minors to enhance their awareness and ability to protect personal information, guide minors in exercising their rights in personal information handling activities, and protect minors' personal information rights and interests.

Article 40: Personal information handlers shall promptly handle requests submitted by minors or their guardians to access, copy, transfer, correct, supplement, or delete minors' personal information in accordance with law.

Article 41: Where leaks, alterations, or losses of minors' personal information occur or are likely to occur, the personal information handler shall immediately initiate an emergency response plan for personal information security incidents, employ remedial measures, promptly report to the internet information departments and relevant departments in accordance with provisions, and inform the affected minors and their guardians of the circumstances of the incident by mail, letter, telephone, push notification, or other such methods, and where it is difficult to inform them one by one, they shall employ reasonable and effective methods to promptly release relevant warning information.

Article 42: Personal information processors shall use the principle of minimum authorization for their staff, strictly set access rights to information, and control the scope of minors' knowledge of personal information. Where staff access minors' personal information, they shall go through the approval of the relevant responsible persons or their authorized management personnel, record the circumstances of the visit, and employ technical measures to avoid illegally handling minors' personal information.

Article 43: Where network service providers discover that minors' private information or that is involved in private information in personal information released through the network, they shall promptly promptly prompt them, and employ necessary protective measures such as stopping transmission, to prevent the spread of information.

Article 44: Personal information processors shall conduct annual compliance audits of their handling of minors' personal information in compliance with laws, administrative regulations, and relevant national provisions.

Article 45: Internet information departments and relevant departments and their staff shall keep minors' personal information they learn of in the course of performing their duties strictly confidential, and must not leak or illegally provide it to others.

Chapter V: Prevention and Control of Internet Addiction

Article 46: Prevention and intervention of minors' addiction to the Internet shall comply with laws, administrative regulations, and relevant national provisions. It is strictly forbidden for any organization or individual to interfere with minors' addiction to the Internet or infringe upon minors' lawful rights and interests in a manner that infringes upon minors' physical and mental health.

Departments such as for health, education, and market supervision and management are to supervise and manage establishments engaged in activities to prevent and intervene in minors' addiction to the Internet on the basis of their respective duties.

Article 47: Schools shall strengthen guidance and training for teachers, raising teachers' ability to early identify and intervene in minor students' addiction to the Internet. For minor students with a tendency to become addicted to the Internet, schools shall promptly inform their guardians, jointly educate and guide minor students, and help them resume normal study and life.

Article 48: Guardians of minors shall supervise minors' safe and reasonable use of the Internet, paying attention to minors' online access and relevant physical, psychological, and behavioral habits, preventing minors from coming into contact with network information that endangers or may affect their physical or mental health, reasonably arranging for the time for minors to use the Internet, and preventing and interfering with minors' addiction to the Internet.

Article 49:Network product and service providers shall establish and complete anti-addiction systems, and must not provide minors with products and services that induce them to become addicted, promptly modify content, functions, or rules that might cause minors to become addicted, and periodically announce to the public the circumstances of anti-addiction efforts.

Article 50:Online gaming, online live broadcasting, online audio and video, online social networking, and other such network service providers shall set up juvenile models for minors' use of their services, providing services in accordance with relevant national provisions and standards in areas such as the period of use, duration, function, and content, and providing guardians with functions such as time management, authority management, and consumption management for guardians performing guardianship duties.

Article 51:Online service providers such as online games, online live broadcasts, online audio and video, and online social networking shall employ measures to reasonably limit the amount of single-time consumption and the amount of accumulated consumption in a single day in the use of online products and services by minors, and must not provide minors with paid services that are inconsistent with their capacity for civil conduct.

Article 52: Online gaming, online live broadcasting, online audio and video, online social networking, and other such network service providers shall employ measures to prevent and resist negative value tendencies such as traffic supremacy, and must not set up communities or groups with the theme of fundraising, voting on lists, brushing up on quantity control and evaluation, and so forth, and must not induce minors to participate in network activities such as fundraising for assistance, voting on lists, and brushing for quantity control and evaluation, and prevent and stop their users from inducing minors to carry out the above conduct.

Article 53:Online game service providers shall require minor users to provide real identity information for registration and login use, and verify their true identity information through necessary means such as the unified electronic identity authentication system for online games established by the State. Where minor users do not provide real identity information for registration and login use, online game service providers must not provide services for them; where services have already been provided, they shall immediately terminate services or cancel their accounts.

Article 54:Online game service providers shall establish and improve game rules to prevent minors from indulging in online games, and avoid minors' access to game content or game functions that might affect their physical and mental health.

Online game service providers shall implement standard norms for age-appropriate reminders, and on the basis of the physical and mental development characteristics of minors at different age stages, classify game products by evaluating elements such as the type, content, and function of game products, clarify the age stages of minor users for which game products are appropriate, and conspicuously prompt them in locations such as user downloads, registrations, and login interfaces.

Article 55: The State departments for press and publications, internet information, and the State Council's departments for education, culture, tourism, and health and health shall periodically carry out publicity and education on preventing minors' addiction to the Internet, supervising and inspecting network product and service providers' performance of their obligations to prevent minors from becoming addicted to the Internet, guiding families, schools, and social organizations to cooperate with each other, employing scientific and reasonable methods to prevent and intervene in minors' addiction to the Internet.

The state press and publication departments take the lead in organizing efforts to prevent minors from becoming addicted to online games, and work with relevant departments to formulate management provisions on the time period, duration, and consumption caps for providing online game services to minors.

Article 56:Departments such as for health and education are to rely on relevant medical and health establishments, schools of higher learning, and so forth, on the basis of their respective duties, to carry out basic research on mental disorders and psychological and behavioral problems caused by minors' addiction to the Internet and applied research such as screening, assessment, diagnosis, prevention, and intervention.

Chapter VI: Legal Liability

Article 57:Where all levels of local people's government and relevant departments at the county level or above violate the provisions of these Regulations and do not perform their duties to protect minors online, the organ at the level above them is to order corrections; if they refuse to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, the directly responsible managers and other directly responsible personnel are to be given sanctions in accordance with law.

Article 58:Where schools, communities, libraries, cultural centers, youth palaces, and so forth violate the provisions of these Regulations, and do not perform their duties to protect minors online, the departments for education, civil affairs, culture and tourism at the county level or above are to order corrections in accordance with their respective duties;

Article 59:Where minors' guardians do not perform guardianship duties as provided for in these Regulations or infringe upon minors' lawful rights and interests, the residents' committees, villagers' committees, and women's federations in the minor's place of residence, the guardian's unit, primary and secondary schools, kindergartens, and other units that have close contact with minors are to lawfully give criticism and education, admonish and stop, and urge them to accept family education guidance, and so forth.

Article 60: Where the provisions of Article 7 of these Regulations are violated, the departments for network information, press and publication, education, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, market supervision and management, radio and television, and other such departments at the county level or above are to order corrections in accordance with their respective duties; those who refuse to make corrections or the circumstances are serious, shall be fined between 50,000 and 500,000 yuan, and the directly responsible managers and other directly responsible personnel shall be fined between 10,000 and 100,000 yuan.

Article 61: Where the provisions of paragraph 3 of article 19, article 22, article 24, or article 26 of these Regulations are violated, the departments for network information, press and publication, telecommunications, public security, civil affairs, culture and tourism, market supervision and management, radio and television, and so forth at the county level or above are to order corrections within a time limit, give warnings, and confiscate illegal gains, and may also impose a fine of not more than 100,000 yuan; if they refuse to make corrections or if the circumstances are serious, order the suspension of relevant business, suspension of production, or revocation of business licenses, or revocation of relevant licenses, Where unlawful gains are more than 1 million yuan, a fine of between 1 times and 10 times of the unlawful gains shall be imposed, and where there are no illegal gains or the illegal gains are less than 1 million yuan, a fine of between 100,000 and 1 million yuan shall also be imposed.

Article 62: Where the provisions of articles 20, 34 to 38, and 40 to 44 of these Regulations are violated, the internet information and other departments at the county level or above are to order corrections, give warnings, and confiscate illegal gains on the basis of their respective duties;

Where there are illegal acts provided for in the preceding paragraph, and the circumstances are serious, the provincial-level Internet information departments and relevant departments shall order corrections, confiscate the illegal gains, and impose a fine of not more than 50 million yuan or less than 5 percent of the previous year's turnover, and may order the suspension of relevant business, suspension of business for rectification, notification to relevant departments to revoke relevant business licenses or revocation of business licenses in accordance with law; and fines of between 100,000 and 1 million yuan on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible personnel; It may also be decided to prohibit him from serving as directors, supervisors, senior management personnel and persons responsible for the protection of minors of relevant enterprises for a certain period of time.

Article 63: Where the provisions of Article 27, Paragraph 2 of Article 29, Article 30, Article 33, Article 49 to Article 54 of these Regulations are violated, the relevant departments such as for public security, Internet information, telecommunications, news and publications, radio and television, culture and tourism are to order corrections in accordance with their respective duties, give warnings, confiscate illegal gains, and where unlawful gains are 1 million yuan or more, and a fine of not less than 1 times but not more than 10 times the unlawful gains, and those who have not gained illegal gains or have less than 1 million yuan, A fine of between 100,000 and 1 million yuan shall be imposed, and a fine of between 10,000 and 100,000 yuan shall be imposed on the directly responsible supervisors and other directly responsible personnel; if they refuse to make corrections or if the circumstances are serious, they may be ordered to suspend the relevant business, suspend the business for rectification, close the website, revoke the business license, or revoke the relevant license.

Article 64:Where network product and service providers violate the provisions of these Regulations and are punished by shutting down websites, revoking relevant business licenses, or revoking business licenses, they must not reapply for relevant licenses within 5 years, and their directly responsible managers and other directly responsible personnel must not engage in business of similar network products and services within 5 years.

Article 65:Where the provisions of these Regulations are violated, the lawful rights and interests of minors are violated, and harm is caused to minors, civil liability is borne in accordance with law; where violations of the administration of public security are constituted, punishment for the administration of public security is to be given in accordance with law; where a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility is to be pursued in accordance with law.

Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions

Article 66: "Smart terminal products" as used in these Regulations refers to network terminal products such as mobile phones and computers that can access the network, have an operating system, and can be installed by users themselves.

Article 67 These Regulations shall enter into force as of the year, month, and year.