“The increasingly difficult operating environment and higher compliance requirements” prompted LinkedIn to shut down the Chinese version of the service

After being online for more than seven years, the Chinese version of LinkedIn, “LinkedIn”, has not escaped the fate of being shut down.Earlier official releaseannouncementSaid that in the face of the “increasingly difficult operating environment and higher compliance requirements” in China, it had to make a decision to stop the operation of the Chinese version “later this year.” In the future, LinkedIn will change its strategy in the Chinese market. They plan to launch a new service, InJobs, later this year. It will focus on building a bridge between job seekers and recruiters, but will not include any social attributes.

LinkedIn shut down the Chinese version of the service at this point, and it is easy to think of the “Personal Information Protection Law” that will be implemented in China from November 1. Although LinkedIn did not explicitly mention it in its statement, the scope and scope of the law can easily make many technology companies worry about it (especially the American companies that have acted cautiously in China in the past two years). In any case, LinkedIn’s withdrawal also announced that the publicly-operated mainstream American social network will completely bid farewell to the Chinese market.