Welcome back to Mlex's weekly podcast covering regulatory news from around the globe.

My name is James Panicki. I'm from Mlex's Asia-Pacific team, and it's great to be with you yet again.

And don't forget to go to Mlexmarketinseting.com for the very best of our reporting.

Just click on the Insight Center tab.

Data privacy policy and data privacy enforcement have continued to dominate our coverage over the past week.

In Europe, we've seen a significant development with Ireland's privacy regulator

undertaking its first big tech investigation involving a Twitter data breach of all things.

Now, that's moving forward to the next step of the GDPR enforcement process and will come

to that story very shortly. First up, though, here in Asia, there is no bigger news than the

annual gathering of the National People's Congress, which is the country's legislature,

and the Chinese people's political consultative conference, which is a political advisory body.

What has caught our attention is that members of the Consultative Congress have again raised

proposals for rules

on privacy rights and personal data protection. This adds impetus to the Chinese legislature's

current work on two separate pieces of privacy-based legislation. Shui Wan is an M-lex correspondent

based in Hong Kong, who is part of our team of reporters covering

Chinese regulatory affairs. Now, Shuan, before we talk about those most recent developments,

what is the exact status of China's proposed privacy and data legislation at the moment?

Thanks, James. China had, China implemented a cyber security law in 2017. A lot of people are already familiar with that law. That is a very comprehensive piece of legislation because it covers a wide range of issues that are related to network security.

So it covers network security and data protection.

Separately, China currently doesn't have an independent data protection law.

But in 2018, the country's legislature,

...