China has issued broad new rules for online publishing that formalize the government’s already strict control of the Internet and seek to expand the scope of online content stored inside its borders. The new regulations -- jointly issued by the ministry of information technology and the publications regulator -- ban companies with foreign ownership of any kind from engaging in online publishing, though they allow foreign-invested firms to cooperate with Chinese companies on individual projects, as long as they obtain prior permission from authorities.
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