Company: GDHLF
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000935
Chunk: 184

Company: GDS Holdings Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-28
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 184
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 services), including Beijing, Tianjin, Zhangjiakou, Langfang, Dalian, Mudanjiang, Shanghai, Suzhou, Jiaxing, Yichang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Haikou, Chongqing, Chengdu and Lanzhou; (ii) data center services without internet resources collaboration services, including Changzhou, Nantong, Yancheng, Jinhua, Taizhou, Xiaogan, Wuhan, Zhuhai, Zhaoqing, Huizhou and Heyuan; and (iii) data center services limited to internet resources collaboration services, including Taiyuan, Wulanchabu, Changchun, Hefei, Fuzhou, Nanchang, Jinan, Zhengzhou, Changsha, Nanning, Guiyang, Kunming, Lhasa, Xian, Xining, Yinchuan and Urumqi.

On January 17, 2017, the MIIT issued the Circular of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Clearing up and Regulating the Internet Access Service Market, or the 2017 MIIT Circular, according to which the MIIT determined to clear up and regulate the internet access service market nationwide from the issuance date of the 2017 MIIT Circular until March 31, 2018. The 2017 MIIT Circular provides, among others, that (i) an enterprise that holds the corresponding telecom business license, including the relevant VATS license, shall not provide, in the name of technical cooperation or other similar ways, qualifications or resources to any unlicensed enterprises for their illegal operation of the telecom business, (ii) if an enterprise with its IDC license obtained prior to the implementation of 2015 Telecom Catalogue effective on March 1, 2016, has actually carried out internet resources collaboration services, it shall make a written commitment to its original license issuing authority before March 31, 2017 to meet the relevant requirements for business licensing and obtain the corresponding telecom business license by the end of 2017, failure of which will result in such enterprise not being able to continue operating the business of internet resources collaboration services as it currently does as of January 1, 2018, and (iii) without the approval of the MIIT, enterprises are not allowed to carry out cross-border business operations by setting up on its own or leasing private network circuits (including virtual private networks, or VPNs) or other information channels.

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