Framework overlap

Does China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) cover China Cybersecurity Law (CSL)?

You hold China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) and have been told to do China Cybersecurity Law (CSL). Here is how much overlaps, control by control.

41% of China Cybersecurity Law (CSL) you already have

China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) already covers about 41% of China Cybersecurity Law (CSL), leaving 13 of 22 controls as genuinely new work.

Already covered 3 Likely covered 6 New work 13

What is genuinely new work

Nothing in China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) reaches these. This is the list to scope.

CSL-Art1
Scope, Cyberspace Sovereignty and Definitions (Art. 1-2, 76)
CSL-Art2025AI
2025 Amendment - AI Governance and Development
CSL-Art23
Critical Network Equipment Certification - Art. 23
CSL-Art24
Real-Name Registration - Art. 24
CSL-Art27
Prohibition on Illegal Network Intrusion - Art. 27
CSL-Art31
Critical Information Infrastructure Designation - Art. 31
CSL-Art35
CII Procurement Security Review - Art. 35
CSL-Art43
Right to Correction and Deletion - Art. 43
CSL-Art47
Content Management Obligations - Art. 47
CSL-Art49
Complaints and Reporting Mechanism - Art. 49
CSL-Art56
Cybersecurity Risk Talks (Regulatory Interview) - Art. 56
CSL-Art59
Penalties for Network Operators - Art. 59-68
CSL-Art66
Penalties for Cross-Border / Localization Violations - Art. 66
Show the 9 you already have
CSL-Art21
Multi-Level Protection Scheme (MLPS) - Art. 21
CSL-Art37
CII Data Localization and Cross-Border Assessment - Art. 37
CSL-Art42
Personal Information Protection and Breach Handling - Art. 42
CSL-Art22
Security of Network Products and Services - Art. 22
CSL-Art34
CII Operator Security Obligations - Art. 34
CSL-Art38
CII Annual Security Inspection - Art. 38
CSL-Art40
Confidentiality of User Information - Art. 40
CSL-Art41
Lawful Collection of Personal Information - Art. 41
CSL-Art51
Cybersecurity Monitoring and Early Warning - Art. 51

How this is calculated

Already covered means a mapping runs from a control in China Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) to that control. Likely covered means no direct mapping exists but both frameworks map to the same control in a third standard. New work means neither. We keep those separate rather than adding them into one friendlier number, because blending them would present a two-hop inference as a verified fact.

Coverage is not symmetric. Run it the other way and you will get a different number; both are correct.

From 332,959 cross-framework control mappings across 723 frameworks, 531 of them verified against their source documents. It does not tell you that you are compliant: a mapped control means the two standards ask for the same thing, not that you have done it.

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