As it was explained to me in my dealings with running infra in China: if you don't want your gaming site to be blocked you are encouraged to host inside China.

As it was explained to me in my dealings with running infra in China: if you don't want your gaming site to be blocked you are encouraged to host inside China. When you apply for your ICP license and call out that you are gaming that's when they ask more questions about the type of content, access to in game chat logs, access to user source ip logs and any sort of transactions that could be seen as money transfer.