China — AI Law & Policy Updates

China regulates AI through multiple binding sector-specific rules from the Cyberspace Administration, including the Interim Measures for Generative AI Services, Provisions on Deep Synthesis, Algorithm Recommendation Provisions, and new labeling requirements effective September 1, 2025. Businesses must ensure content legality, complete algorithm filings and security assessments, verify real-name user identity, and label AI-generated content.

Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services effective Aug 15, 2023 · Provisions on Deep Synthesis of Internet Information Services Jan 2023 · Algorithm Recommendation Provisions March 2022 · Measures for Labeling AI-Generated Synthetic Content + GB 45438-2025 effective Sept 1, 2025 — Status: Multiple sector rules in force China regulates AI through a stack of binding, sector-specific rules from the Cyberspace Administration CAC rather than one omnibus law. Businesses providing generative-AI, algorithmic-recommendation, or deep-synthesis services to the Chinese public must ensure content legality, complete algorithm filings and security assessments, verify real-name user identity, and — since September 1, 2025 — apply both explicit visible and implicit metadata labels to all AI-generated content. Recent developments: