Company: ZHIHF
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001410578-25-000729
Chunk: 257

Company: Zhihu Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 257
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 publishing, audiovisual, and cultural operations). However, these pilot measures are limited to the specified regions and are not universally applicable.

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Pursuant to the Ministry of Information Industry’s Notice on Strengthening the Administration of Foreign Investment in and Operation of Value-Added Telecommunications Services, issued by the Ministry of Information Industry, the predecessor of the MIIT, on July 13, 2006, domestic value-added telecommunications enterprises are prohibited from renting, transferring, or selling licenses for value-added telecommunications services to foreign investors in any form. They are also prohibited from providing any resources, premises, facilities, or other assistance in any form to foreign investors for their illegal operation of any value-added telecommunications business in China.
Regulations on Internet Content Services
The PRC government authorities have adopted regulations governing illegal content and information over the internet to strengthen the regulations on internet content from time to time to, among others, maintain the security of internet operations and internet content and manage specific categories of internet content such as internet audio-visual programs. See “—Regulations Relating to Information Security” and “—Regulations Relating to Internet Audio-Visual Program Services.”
On August 25, 2017, the CAC promulgated the Administrative Provisions on Internet Comment Threading Services and the Administrative Provisions on Internet Forum and Community Services, both of which took effect on October 1, 2017. As stipulated in the provisions, online comment threading service providers are imposed on strict primary obligations such as verifying the authenticity of registered users’ identity information, protecting personal information of users, and developing systems to review comment threading on news information prior to the publication. In addition, the services providers may establish information review, real-time public information check, emergency response, personal information protection, and other information security administration systems. Furthermore, the service providers should not publish information in violation of PRC laws, regulations, and other applicable provisions. The Administrative Provisions on Internet Comment Threading Services was later amended on November 16, 2022 and took effect on December 15, 2022, which further clarify the obligations of service providers of online comment threading. Service providers must regulate and manage users, producers, and operators of official accounts in accordance with user agreements. For users of comment threading services that release unlawful and detrimental content, the service providers must take necessary measures to manage such actions, such as giving warnings, refusing publication of comment, deleting comment, restricting account functions, suspending account updates, closing accounts, and prohibiting re-registration,