Legal Document
Prohibited and Restricted Business List

June 1, 2024

Prohibited Business List
  • All religious websites, publication or accessories
  • Anesthetic, psychotropic or prescription medicine; illegal unregistered medicine
  • Aphrodisiac
  • Archaeological and cultural relics
  • Auction sites and services
  • Batons and electric batons
  • Cashback from Alipay account
  • Counterfeit currency
  • Counterfeit or replica food products
  • Crowd funding
  • Crude oil
  • Donation
  • Espionage equipment and accessories
  • Fetal gender determination
  • Fireworks and firecrackers
  • Foreign exchange services
  • Gambling devices and accessories
  • Gold investment
  • Hacking services or accessories
  • Human organs
  • Illegal or un-registered fund-raising activities
  • Illegal political products and publications
  • Illegal political program channels
  • Illegal publication of certificates or carving of stamps
  • Illegal sale of financial information (e.g., bank accounts, bank cards)
  • Illegally obtained proceeds or properties as result of crime
  • Insurance products and platforms
  • Lock picking tools and accessories
  • Lottery
  • Lucky draws
  • Malwares
  • Military or police equipment
  • Mutual Funds
  • Narcotics and related accessories
  • Online cemeteries and ancestor worshipping
  • Online sale of medical services, including medical consulting, hypnotherapy, plastic surgery
  • Online sale of tobaccos and cigarettes
  • Pawn services
  • Peer to peer (P2P) lending services
  • Poisonous or hazardous chemicals
  • Protected species
  • Pyramid schemes
  • Real estate
  • Rebate or cashback services
  • Sale of animals, plants or products originating from areas declared with an epidemic outbreak of contagious diseases
  • Sale of animals, plants or products with contagious and hazardous diseases
  • Sales of distribution of event tickets without license (e.g., Olympic Games or World Expo tickets)
  • Sales of personal information (e.g., identity card information)
  • Satellites antennas
  • Seeds
  • Services or products facilitating unlawful public gathering
  • Services or products that infringe on personal privacy (e.g., online activity monitoring)
  • Services to facilitate plagiarism and examination fraud
  • Smuggled goods
  • Software or products related to trading of financial products and information
  • State secret documents and information
  • Stock and securities
  • Surrogacy services
  • Trading in invoices issued within the Peoples’ Republic of China
  • Trading or distribution of currency (both RMB and foreign currencies)
  • Trading or sale of virtual currencies (e.g., Bitcoin, Litecoin)
  • Weapons of all types (including daggers, firearms and accessories, replica weapons, ammunitions and explosives)
Restricted Business List
  • Adult entertainment or explicit content
  • Content creators producing pornographic material, including videos, images, or written content with explicit sexual content
  • Cryptocurrency trading platforms
  • Financial products and services
  • Payment by installments service
  • Video chatting services