China Releases Three Cybersecurity Practice Guides on Electronics Data Erasure

Sep 17, 2026 05:18 ET · Sep 17, 2026

TREE NEWS update: China published three cybersecurity standard practice guides on September 15 covering block erasure for semiconductor storage media, information erasure in electronics recycling, and data erasure on mobile smart terminals. The guides support implementation of mandatory national standard GB 46864-2025 on data security technical requirements for electronics information erasure. Under the guidance of the Cyberspace Administration of China and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the national cybersecurity standards committee secretariat organized more than 30 storage chip makers, electronics manufacturers, recyclers and third-party institutions to draft them.

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The significance here is regulatory plumbing, not headlines: erasure standards are the quiet prerequisite for any credible reuse, refurbishment or recycling market, and Beijing is now specifying how it must be done across chips, devices and end-of-life processing. Because the guides were drafted with storage makers, manufacturers and recyclers rather than imposed unilaterally, they hint at a compliance ecosystem forming around the mandatory standard. The open question is whether these practices become a de facto gate for cross-border trade in used electronics and recovered components.

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