Company: TCOM
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001193125-25-078429
Chunk: 105

Company: Trip.com Group Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 105
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 “Certain other industries” refer to, among others, important transportation services, important culture products and services, important information technology and internet products and services, and important finance services that are crucial to national security. 
 
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 Regulations Relating to Value-Added Telecommunications Services 
 The PRC Telecommunications Regulations, most recently amended in February 2016, provide the regulatory framework for telecommunications service providers in China and require a telecommunications service provider to obtain an operating license prior to commencing its operations. The Telecommunications Regulations categorize all telecommunications services as either basic telecommunications services or value-added telecommunications services. Providers of value-added telecommunications services are required to obtain a license for value-added telecommunications services. Pursuant to the Catalog of Telecommunications Services, an attachment to the Telecommunications Regulations, which was most recently amended on June 6, 2019, information services provided via public telecommunication network or the internet and the online data processing and transaction processing services provided via public telecommunication network or the internet by utilizing various kinds of data and transaction processing application platforms that are connected to public telecommunication network or the internet fall within value-added telecommunications services. 
 According to the Administrative Measures on Internet Information Services last amended on January 8, 2011, the internet information services is classified into commercial internet information services and non-commercial internet information services; an operator of commercial internet information services must obtain a value-added telecommunications operating license for the provision of internet information services from the appropriate telecommunications authorities. The Administrative Measures for Telecommunications Operating Licenses came into effect on September 1, 2017 and further regulate the telecommunications operating licenses. 
Restrictions Relating to Travel Agency 
 The PRC Tourism Law, which was last amended in 2018, aims to protect tourists’ and tour operators’ legal rights, regulate travel market, protect and make a reasonable use of travel resources, and promote the development of travel industry, and sets forth specific requirements for the operation of travel agencies and the activities in which travel agencies are prohibited to engage. 
 The travel industry is subject to the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and local tourism administrations. The principal regulations governing travel agencies in China include the Travel Agency Regulations, most recently amended on November 29, 2020, and the Implementing Rules of Travel Agency Regulations, most recently amended on December 12, 2016. Under these regulations, a travel agency must obtain a license for outbound travel agency business from the National Tourism Administration or its authorized provincial-level tourism administration, and a license for domestic and inbound travel agency business from