No this is actually NEW China news this time: They want to take down recharge codes and other deposit options, and before it was just bank transfers. For the first time, the situation is actually significantly worse now than it was in was in December. For a while we thought that Chinese exchanges would be able to continue doing volume by using alternative payment methods but now it is turning into a complete cut-off. I bet btcchina's ATMs will be taken down.
Nothing changed since the December china statement which was:
Bitcoin is not a currency - it's a digital commodity (virtual goods). This means 3 thing:
1) No banks or payment processors could be involved directly or indirectly in Bitcoin trading - they have licences for dealing with money not bitcoin.
2) You can't price any other commodity or service in Bitcoin - those are priced in yuan.
3) Bitcoin is legal and you could buy it or sell it privately (face to face or something like localbitcoins). No statement was made what are the valid ways to do this, so regulation or clarification on this could come in the future.
Those were clearly stated back in December and there is no change till now.
. What do you call second level thinking? 
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