The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China requires all applications (APPs) to perform the filing procedures with the telecommunications department before April next year, register real names, network resources and business information.

According to the official website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday (August 8), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently issued a notice of the Ministry of Industry and Informatization on the filing of mobile Internet applications, requiringThe organizer of the app performs the filing procedures and fails to perform the filing procedures shall not engage in the App Internet information services.

The notification requires that the APP that develops the business before the notification should be performed from the Provincial Communications Administration of the Provincial Communications Administration of its residence to the end of March next year to perform the filing procedures.From April to the end of June next year, the competent telecommunications department will supervise and inspect the APP filing situation, and deal with APPs that have not performed the filing procedures in accordance with the law.

The notice also mentioned that in order to reduce the burden of the organizer and reduce the amount of information filling in, the app filing information follows the original website filing information. For the organizers who have performed the website filing procedures, they do not need to fill in the subject identity again.Information, just supplement the APP related information.

The notification clearly proposes that the app, network access service provider, application distribution platform, and smart terminal manufacturers shall establish and improve the mechanism of illegal illegal information monitoring and disposal mechanisms, and discover that laws and administrative regulations prohibit the release or transmission of transmission of administrative regulations or transmissionThe information of the information should be stopped immediately, and the disposal measures such as elimination should be taken to prevent the spread of information, preserving relevant records, and reporting to the telecommunications authority, and disposal according to the requirements of the telecommunications authority.

The notice also said that network access service providers, application distribution platforms, and smart terminal manufacturers must not provide network access, distribution, preset and other services for APPs that have not fulfilled the filing procedures.

According to Reuters, Rich Bishop, the co -founder of Application Company Appinchina, believes that the new regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology may affect foreign developers.At present, foreign developers can publish their APP through the Apple App Store, without having to show any documents to the Chinese government.

Bixu said that in order to comply with new regulations, foreign application developers must now have a company in China or cooperate with local publishers.

Apple did not immediately reply to Reuters' comment request.After the Chinese official released the interim method of the management of artificial intelligence services last month, Apple App Store removed more than 100 applications to comply with regulations.

Reuters reports that the new regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology may also affect the availability of popular social software such as Facebook, Instagram.China is currently not allowed to use the above apps, but it can still be downloaded from the APP store so that Chinese people can use them overseas.