China's internet regulator opened a single filing portal on November 9 covering generative AI, algorithms, deep synthesis and blockchain services, shutting the two older systems it replaces.
China's internet regulator opened a single front door for tech filings on Monday. The Cyberspace Administration of China launched the Internet New Technology and New Application Information Service Filing System on November 9, a portal that handles registrations for generative AI, algorithms, deep synthesis and blockchain information services together.
The new system lives at beian.cac.gov.cn, an address algorithm providers already know. Two older portals stopped operating the same day: the Internet Information Service Algorithm Filing System and the Blockchain Information Service Filing Management System. Companies that used either one now file through the unified platform instead.
The change is administrative, not a loosening. Security assessments and content compliance duties stay exactly as they were, and providers still have to file before offering services to the public. The regimes arrived in layers — blockchain filings since February 2019, algorithm rules in 2022, generative AI measures in 2023 — and Monday's launch folds them into one workflow.
The regulator's own notice, published on Monday afternoon in Beijing, states that the system went live on November 9 and that the two older portals stopped at the same time. Three independent outlets reporting the launch describe the same four categories and the same web address. What the notice does not do is change the underlying obligations: the brief announcement sets out no new requirements for individual services, and the security and content rules that applied under the old portals carry over unchanged.
For a company running an AI model, a recommendation feed and a blockchain service at once, the practical difference is one desk instead of several. For the regulator, it is a single view of who is offering what. The test comes in the weeks ahead, when providers file under the new system and the first counts of registrations appear — and when Apple Intelligence, whose expanded China filing was registered the same day, shows how the portal works in practice for a foreign service.