China’s first comprehensive personal data law, which imposes strict legal requirements on multinational corporations and Chinese companies in relation to their collection and processing of personal data, celebrated its one-year birthday on November 1, 2022. In this guest article, Reed Smith partner Barbara Li provides an update on key regulatory and enforcement movements under the Personal Information Protection Law in the past year, outlines the important Chinese data rules on the horizon, and discusses what practical steps business organizations should consider for better compliance and risk management. See “China’s First Information Protection Law: Compliance Essentials” (Oct. 13, 2021).