Company: FENG
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-055759
Chunk: 41

Company: Phoenix New Media Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 41
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 all telecommunications businesses in the PRC as either basic or value-added. Value-added telecommunications services are defined as telecommunications and information services provided through public network infrastructures. The currently effective “ Catalog of Telecommunications Business”, an attachment to the Telecom Regulations, categorizes various types of telecommunications and telecommunications-related activities into basic or value-added telecommunications services, according to which, Internet information services, or ICP services, are classified as value-added telecommunications businesses. Under the Telecom Regulations, commercial operators of value-added telecommunications services must first obtain an operating license for value-added telecommunications services, or the ICP License, from MIIT or its provincial level counterparts.

Administrative Measures on Internet Information Services(2024, revised), or the Internet Measures. According to the Internet Measures, a commercial ICP service operator must obtain an ICP License from MIIT or its provincial level counterparts before engaging in any commercial ICP service in PRC. When the ICP service involves areas of news, publication, education and other industry and, if required by relevant laws and regulations, prior approval from the respective regulatory authorities must be obtained prior to applying for the ICP License. Moreover, an ICP service operator must display its ICP License number in a conspicuous location on its websites.

Notice of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the Record-filing of Mobile Internet Application(2023), or the APP Filing Notice. Under the APP Filing Notice, holders of mobile Internet Apps engaged in Internet information services within the Mainland of PRC must fulfill the filing requirements in accordance with theAnti-Telecom and Online Fraud Law of PRC and the Administrative Measures on Internet Information Services and such holders shall not engage in the App Internet information service without completion of such filing.

Opinions on Further Compacting the Main Responsibility of Website Platform Information Content Management, or the Opinions on Website Responsibility(2021). On September 15, 2021, the CAC issued theOpinions on Website Responsibilities, which took effect on the same date. These opinions systematically put forward the work requirements for the website platform to perform the main responsibility of information content management, mainly including ten specific contents: (i) clearly grasp the connotation of the main responsibility; (ii) improve the platform community rules; (iii) strengthen the standardized management of

accounts; (iv) improve the content review mechanism; (v) improve the quality of information content; (vi) standardize the dissemination of information content; (vii) strengthen the management of key functions; (viii) insist on