Company: TCOM
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001193125-25-078429
Chunk: 111

Company: Trip.com Group Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 111
---
 addition, the service providers of large network platforms, i.e., platforms with more than 50 million registered users or more than 10 million monthly active users with complex business types and whose network data processing activities have significant impact on national security, economic operation, national economy and people’s livelihood or other aspects, shall issue annual reports on their social responsibility for personal information protection. 
 The Administrative Measures for Personal Information Protection Compliance Audit were promulgated by the CAC on February 12, 2025, and will take effect on May 1, 2025. According to these measures, personal information processors who process personal information of more than 10 million individuals should conduct personal information protection compliance audit (the “Compliance Audit”) at least every two years, who process personal information of more than 1 million individuals shall designate a person responsible for the Compliance Audit, and who provide important Internet platform services, with large number of users and have complex business types shall establish an independent organization composed mainly of external members to supervise the Compliance Audit. Under certain circumstances, the CAC and other departments that perform the duty of personal information protection may require the personal information processors to entrust professional organizations to conduct Compliance Audit. 
 The PRC government authorities have wide discretion in the interpretation and enforcement of these laws. As a major internet platform, we are exposed to risks of being deemed to be a critical information infrastructure operator or a network platform operator meeting the above criteria under the PRC cybersecurity laws. 
 Regulations Relating to Advertising Business 
 The PRC Advertisement Law, which was last amended on April 29, 2021, requires advertisers to ensure that the content of the advertisements are true. The content of advertisements cannot contain prohibited information. 
 
66 

 The Internet Advertisement Interim Measures, which came into effect on September 1, 2016, regulate any advertisement published on the internet, including but not limited to, those on websites, webpage, and apps, those in the forms of word, picture, audio, video, and others. According to the Internet Advertisement Measures, internet information service providers must stop any person from using their information services to publish illegal advertisements if they are aware of, or should reasonably be aware of, such illegal advertisements even if the internet information service provider merely provides information services and has not involved in the internet advertisement businesses. On February 25, 2023, the SAMR promulgated the Measures for Administration of Internet Advertising, which stipulate the obligations of the advertisers, the internet advertising operators, and the internet information service providers