Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 114

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 114
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, 2004 and amended on October 29, 2020, any entities that engage in the production of radio and television programs are required to apply for a license from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television or its local level counterparts. Entities with the Radio and Television Program Production and Operation License must conduct their operations strictly within the approved scope of production and operation. Except for radio and television broadcasting institutions, the above-mentioned permit holders shall not produce radio and television programs concerning current political news or special topics, columns and other programs of the same kind.

On January 9, 2019, the China Net-casting Services Association issued the Regulations on Administration of Network Short Video Platforms, pursuant to which, a network platform is required to obtain the Audio-Visual Permit and relevant qualifications to provide short video services, and to strictly operate within the scope of such permit. The network short video platform is required to establish a chief-editor content management and responsibility system, and all content of a short video, including but not limited to its title, description, bullet-chats and comments shall be reviewed in advance before the content is broadcasted. Furthermore, the number of content reviewers a platform is required to host should, in principle, be more than one-thousandth of the number of short videos newly broadcasted on the platform per day. The content reviewers are expected to have high political awareness and professionality. The China Net-casting Services Association issued the Censoring Criteria for Network Short Video Content on January 9, 2019 and amended it on December 15, 2021, which set forth certain details of content prohibited to be broadcasted, such as violence, pornography, gambling, terrorism, and other illegal or immoral content.

Regulations on Artificial Intelligence

On May 8, 2015, the State Council issued a notice promulgating the Made in China 2025 Plan, which came into effect on the same day. The Made in China 2025 Plan emphasizes the acceleration of the promotion of the integrated development of new generation information technology and manufacturing technology, and regards intelligent manufacturing as the main direction of the comprehensive integration of informatization and industrialization. Meanwhile, it is underlined that efforts should be made to develop intelligent equipment and intelligent products, promote intelligent production processes, cultivate new production methods, and comprehensively enhance the intelligent level of research and development, production, management and service of enterprises.

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On July 8, 2017, the State Council issued the Development Plan of a New Generation