Rumor: China Enforces Domestic Procurement Rule Compliance
BiaNews, 8/27/10
According to overseas media reports, the Chinese government has begun inspections to check domestic companies' compliance with its national Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS). The MLPS, drawn up by China's Ministry of Public Security in 2007, stipulates that banks, telecommunications and other critical government and infrastructure-related companies must use domestic IT products.
The Chinese government previously announced that companies must use domestic firewalls and other security software.
According to the American Chamber of Commerce in China, the MLPS policy could adversely affect overseas IT suppliers as a majority of government organizations and SOEs must comply with the policy this year. Juniper, Symantec, Trend Micro, Cisco and McAfee all declined to comment on the report.
Keywords: regulation hardware overseas security software Ministry of Public Security IT products government procurement
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