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China VATS Foreign Ownership
Pilot Diagnostic

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Compliance screen

Business is established/operates in an approved expanded-opening pilot area (Beijing/Shanghai/Hainan/Shenzhen scope)?

Requested VATS falls within the current pilot opening list rather than an excluded basic telecom/special service?

Applicant meets MIIT pilot qualification, facilities, cybersecurity and service capability requirements?

Pilot operating approval/VATS licence obtained before service launch?

Cross-border data, IDC/CDN/cloud, domain/ICP and security obligations separately satisfied?

Legal basis

Scope

MIIT's 2026 pilot has issued approvals to foreign-funded enterprises and removes foreign equity caps for covered VATS in designated pilot areas. It is not a nationwide automatic removal of all telecom ownership restrictions.

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Tool typeLegal assessment

ScopeNational framework first

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