The Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without the authorization. Authorities always fight any services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. Apple has started removing all IOS VPN apps from it App Store in China in July, in compliance with Chinese Internet monitoring law, in July. In March 2016 the company claimed on Twitter to have 8,000 foreigners and 5,000 businesses using VPN service to bypass censorship in the country.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/67061/cyber-crime/vpn-service-censorship.html