SpyLedger dossier · Biometric / video

iFLYTEK

iFLYTEK Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 科大讯飞) is a partially state-owned Chinese AI company founded in 1999, headquartered in Hefei, Anhui Province. It was spun off from the University of Science and Technology of China and is publicly listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (ticker 002230); state-owned China Mobile is among its largest shareholders. The company is a national leader in intelligent speech and natural-language technologies (speech recognition, synthesis, translation, voiceprint biometrics) and operates the xfyun open AI platform and the Spark/Xinghuo large language model. Corporate basics are drawn from public company profiles and Wikipedia and are provided for identification only; they are not themselves a government designation.

Headquarters: China

Products

Intelligent speech recognition (ASR) and speech synthesis (TTS) engines
Voiceprint / speaker identification and voice biometrics
Natural language processing and machine translation
Spark (Xinghuo) large language model and AI open platform (xfyun)
AI-powered education, smart-office, and consumer voice products (translators, recorders, smart hardware)

Government designation status

1 active designation from the surveyed authorities. Each is a public government record with a different legal effect — read the type label and scope on each.

US BISExport controlEntity List (15 CFR Part 744, Supplement No. 4) · 2019-10-09

A license is required to export US-origin items/technology to the entity, typically reviewed under a presumption of denial (e.g. BIS Entity List). It is not an asset freeze.

Verified against the primary Federal Register notice (84 FR 54002, doc. 2019-22210). BIS added IFLYTEK to the Entity List effective October 9, 2019; the entry reads "IFLYTEK, National Intelligent Speech High-tech Industrialization Base, No. 666, Wangjiang Road West, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China." The listing imposes a license requirement for all items subject to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). The license review policy is case-by-case review for ECCNs 1A004.c, 1A004.d, 1A995, 1A999.a, 1D003, 2A983, 2D983, and 2E983, and for EAR99 items described in the Note to ECCN 1A995; presumption of denial for all other items subject to the EAR. BIS stated the entity was added for involvement in human-rights violations and abuses in China's campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minority groups in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). SCOPE: this is an export-control restriction on the transfer of U.S.-origin items only; it is NOT an asset-blocking sanction, does not freeze assets, and does not prohibit dealings with the company beyond covered exports, reexports, and in-country transfers. STATUS: still in force; no Federal Register notice removing IFLYTEK from the Entity List was located, and the current BIS Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 continues to list the entity (verified against 2024-2025 Entity List revision notices, which record removals of other entities but not IFLYTEK).

Federal Register / Addition of Certain Entities to the Entity List (84 FR 54002, Oct. 9, 2019)

Only one in-scope designation is verified on record: the BIS Entity List addition of October 9, 2019 (an export-control restriction). Searches of the other in-scope authorities returned no listing for iFLYTEK. It does NOT appear on the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List (the 2019 action was a distinct export-control Entity List mechanism, not an asset-blocking SDN designation). It is NOT on the Treasury Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) investment-restriction list. It is NOT on the FCC Covered List (which identifies Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, Dahua and their affiliates -- plus later non-iFLYTEK additions such as Kaspersky, certain foreign-made drones, and consumer routers -- but not iFLYTEK). No EU consolidated sanctions listing for iFLYTEK was identified. For completeness, and although it is outside the five in-scope authorities, iFLYTEK was also not found on the U.S. DoD Section 1260H Chinese Military Companies list as verified against an authoritative enumeration mirroring the official list (updated June 10, 2026); a contrary unsourced search-summary claim that iFLYTEK appears on the 1260H list could not be corroborated against any primary DoD notice or law-firm enumeration of the actual listings and is therefore not credited. These absences are reported conservatively to avoid implying restrictions that are not on record.

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