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• Information that poses a serious threat to China’s politics, territory, military, economy,
culture, society, science and technology, cyberspace, ecosystem, resources, and nuclear
safety, and that has a great impact on the country’s overseas interests and its data security in
space, polar regions, the deep sea, and artificial intelligence.
• Information that has a great influence on China’s industrial and telecommunications sectors as
well as key backbone enterprises, key information infrastructure, and other important resources.
• Information that can do major damage to industrial production and operations,
telecommunications, and internet services, which has the potential to lead to large-scale
shutdowns and network and service paralysis.
• Other information assessed and recognized as core data by the MIIT.

IMPORTANT DATA

• Information that poses a threat to China’s politics, territory, military, economy, culture,
society, science and technology, cyberspace, ecosystem, resources, and nuclear safety, and
that has an impact on the country’s overseas interests and its data security in space, polar
regions, the deep sea, and artificial intelligence.
• Information that has an influence on the development, production, operations, and
economic interests of China’s industrial and telecommunications sectors.
• Information that can cause major data security incidents or production safety accidents,
that has a significant impact on the legal rights of individuals and organizations, and that has
a great negative impact on society.
• Information that has obvious cascading effects across a range of industries and enterprises
or has long lasting effects that can seriously impact China’s industry development, technological
advancement, and industrial ecology.
• The cost of recovering this information is potentially high or the cost of removing the
negative impact of this information could be considered high.
• Other information assessed and recognized as important data by the MIIT.

ORDINARY DATA

• Information that has a relatively low impact on the legal interests of individuals and
organizations.
• Information that can only affect a small number of users and enterprises or a small scope
of production and living areas, that only has a short-term effect, and that has a relatively low
impact on the operations of enterprises, industry development, technological advancement,
and industrial ecology.
• The cost of recovering this information may be low or the cost of removing the negative
impact of this information may be low.
• Other data excluded from the catalogue of important and core data.

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