Company: FENG
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000950170-25-055759
Chunk: 54

Company: Phoenix New Media Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 54
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ying Jiuzhou and wholesale and retail of books, newspaper, magazines and electronic publications through Yifeng Lianhe. Each of Tianying Jiuzhou and Yifeng Lianhe has obtained a Publication Operation Permit.

On May 31, 2016, SAPPRFT and MOFCOM jointly promulgated theAdministrative Measures for the Publication Market (2016 Version), or Publication Market Measures (2016 Version), which replaced the Publication Market Measures (2011 Version). According to the Publication Market Measures (2016 Version), entities and individuals engaged in the wholesale or retail of publications shall carry out the relevant activities on the strength of an operation permit for publications. Where an entity or individual is engaged in the distribution of publications via the Internet or other information networks, it or he/she shall obtain the operation permit for publications; where an entity or individual that has obtained the operation permit for publications is engaged in the distribution of publications via the Internet or other information networks within the approved business scope, it or he/she shall go through the record-filing formalities with the publication administrative department that granted approval within 15 days after launching the online distribution business. Pursuant to the Publication Market (2016 Version), foreign-invested enterprises are allowed to engage in the distribution of publications.

Regulation of Network Publication

NPPA (formerly the SAPPRFT) is the government agency regulating publishing activities in the PRC. In February 2016, the SAPPRFT and the MIIT jointly issued the Administrative Measures on Network Publication Service, which took effect in March 2016 and replaced the Tentative Administration Measures on Internet Publication. TheAdministrative Measures on Network Publication Service further strengthen and expand supervision over and management of network publication services, and require Internet publishers to be approved by and obtain a Network Publication Service License from SAPPRFT. Pursuant to theAdministrative Measures on Network Publication Service, “network publication services” refers to activities including providing network publications to the public through information network, and “network publications” refers to digitalized works with publishing features such as editing, producing and processing. The Administrative Measures on Network Publication Service also detailed qualifications and application procedures for obtaining a Network Publication Service License.

Regulation of Short Message Services

MII issued theNotice on Certain Issues Regarding Standardizing Short Message Services on April 15, 2004, specifying that only those information service providers holding the relevant license can provide short message services in the PRC. Such notice also specifies that information service providers shall examine the contents of short messages and