On September 14, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT) and the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) jointly released the Circular on Further Strengthening the Standardized Management of Large-scale Commercial Performance Events and Promoting Healthy and Orderly Development of Performance Market (the "Circular").

The Circular imposes real-name ticket purchase and entry system in large-scale commercial performance events, requiring that each identity certificate can only be used to purchase one ticket for each performance and the identity information of the ticket purchaser must be consistent with that of the person entering the venue. Performance organizers and ticket sales platforms shall strengthen the protection of consumers' personal information, and shall prevent personal information from unauthorized access or leakage, falsification, or loss. Meanwhile, the Circular calls for further raising the proportion of ticket sales for large-scale commercial performance events, stipulating that tickets sold to the public by the performance organizers should not be less than 85 percent of the approved audience capacity. For the remaining 15 percent of the tickets, personal information needs to be bound with the tickets within 24 hours before the performance, so as to ensure "real-name entry".

(Source: Ministry of Culture and Tourism)