China legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 603+ Chinese laws, administrative regulations, and regulatory materials from central government and regulatory institutions across 3 official portals. Search Chinese legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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Which Chinese law governs the protection of personal information?
The Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国个人信息保护法), published on 20 August 2021.
Source: Cyberspace Administration of China — https://www.cac.gov.cn/2021-08/20/c_1631050028355286.htm
Retrieved: 2026-04-24 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Chinese sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Chinese legal materials from official central-government and regulator sources. Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available.
Source categories: central government and general legislation · cybersecurity, data protection and privacy regulation · administrative law and archives administration · policy documents, announcements and official news
- The State Council of the People's Republic of China (gov.cn)
- Cyberspace Administration of China (cac.gov.cn)
- State Archives Administration of the People's Republic of China (saac.gov.cn)
- Comisión de Regulación de Comunicaciones — CRC (www.crcom.gov.co)
Chinese legal source types covered
Chinese legal coverage focuses on national legislation, State Council administrative regulations, and regulatory materials, with guidance, policy documents, and official announcements where available.
Legislation & Regulations
National laws (法律), administrative regulations (行政法规), State Council decrees (国务院令), and departmental rules (部门规章), taken directly from the State Council portal (gov.cn) and official agency publications.
Legislative History
State Council amendment decisions and revision notices published alongside decrees and regulations, where available, each tied to its official source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Regulations, guidelines, policy documents, and announcements from Chinese regulators such as the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and the State Archives Administration.
Case Law
Chinese court decisions are not yet part of the covered source set — current coverage focuses on legislation, State Council materials, and regulator publications. Case-law sources can be requested by Team and Enterprise customers.
One Chinese legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Chinese laws, administrative regulations, regulatory guidance, and policy materials through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=CN&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Chinese legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Chinese materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Chinese legal materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Chinese legal search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Chinese legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and article-level changes across Chinese legal materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Chinese law, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Chinese sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
- Build internal Chinese legal research tools without maintaining your own crawler stack
Why Lawstronaut for Chinese legal research
Chinese legal information is spread across the State Council portal, ministry and regulator websites, and official announcement channels — almost entirely in Chinese. For humans, that means slow research. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the legal source directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About China legal coverage
China is a civil-law jurisdiction with a socialist legal system. National laws (法律) are enacted by the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee, administrative regulations (行政法规) are issued by the State Council, and departmental rules (部门规章) come from ministries and agencies. Lawstronaut's Chinese coverage today draws on the State Council portal (gov.cn) — the central publication channel for laws, regulations, decrees, and policy documents — together with the Cyberspace Administration of China (cac.gov.cn), the regulator for cybersecurity, data protection, and internet governance, and the State Archives Administration (saac.gov.cn). Records are published in Chinese.
Chinese law is moving fast, especially in data and technology regulation: the Personal Information Protection Law, cybersecurity and data-security rules, and a steady stream of CAC regulations and guidance keep reshaping compliance obligations, while the State Council regularly amends administrative regulations by decree. Point-in-time data straight from the official source is what keeps a Chinese legal research answer correct today.
Built for
Legaltech companies
Build Chinese legal search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Chinese regulatory materials, guidance, enforcement updates, and legal changes across official sources — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Chinese legal text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal teams
Give lawyers and business users faster access to Chinese legal sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per jurisdiction.
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