How to break through data barriers
The recently released "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating the Construction of a National Unified Market" proposes to accelerate the cultivation of the data element market, establish and improve basic systems and systems such as data security, rights protection, cross-border transmission management, transaction circulation, open sharing, and security certification. Standards and specifications, conduct in-depth data resource investigations, and promote data resource development and utilization.
Experts believe that this will solve the blockages, difficulties and pain points of the reasonable flow of data elements, promote the orderly circulation of data elements, promote the rapid development of the digital economy with data as the key element, and enhance the efficiency of data serving the real economy.
Data elements become a new competition track
In recent years, the exploration of data transactions has been increasing in various places.
Shenzhen Data Exchange and Guangzhou Data Exchange are actively preparing for construction.
Previously, on March 31, 2021, the Beijing International Big Data Exchange was established; on November 25, 2021, the Shanghai Data Exchange was unveiled.
Why accelerate the cultivation of the data element market?
Yang Chunli, deputy director of the China Software Evaluation Center, said that data resources are becoming a key factor of production, and the amount of data resources mastered is an important symbol of a country's soft power and competitiveness.
Cultivating the data element market is not only the proper meaning of accelerating the construction of a unified national market, but also the key to stimulating the value of data elements, enhancing the enabling role of data elements, and promoting the quality, efficiency, and power changes of economic development.
As a factor of production, data has become a new track for global competition following land, labor, capital, and technology.
Wang Weiling, director of the Data Governance Research Office of the Information Technology and Software Industry Research Institute of the China Electronics and Information Industry Development Institute, believes that cultivating the data factor market has extremely important strategic significance. First, it will help reshape new international competitive advantages.
It is necessary to actively seize the critical period for the cultivation of the data element market, break down the institutional and mechanism barriers to the release of data value, cooperate with all parties to jointly explore the value of data, accelerate the occupation of the commanding heights of the cultivation of the global data element market, and reshape new advantages in international competition.
The second is to help achieve high-quality economic development.
The cultivation of the data element market will change the form of the existing digital economy. It is necessary to further improve the circulation efficiency of data elements, stimulate the vitality of the market, and give play to the multiplier effect of the new element of data on the efficiency of other elements, so as to promote the data elements to provide high-quality economic development. New kinetic energy.
The third is to help unleash the potential of digital transformation.
Using data as a glue to promote the digital, networked, and intelligent development of various industries, and to use big data to improve the modernization level of government governance is not only a new requirement for the development of the times, but also a way to drive the overall upgrading of the manufacturing industry and realize the modernization of national governance through digitalization. realistic needs.
"After years of development, my country's various industries and fields have accumulated a large amount of data resources, which has laid a good foundation for cultivating the data element market, but it is also urgent to establish and improve basic systems and standards to fundamentally solve the blockage that restricts the reasonable flow of data elements. , difficulties and pain points, correct the imbalance and misallocation of data resources, disorderly abuse, and hidden safety hazards from the source, promote the formation of a smooth data meridian, and build an economic and social development paradigm that uses data to speak, use data to make decisions, use data to manage, and use data to innovate. ." Yang Chunli said.
Accelerate the integration of industry and data
At present, my country is accelerating the cultivation of the data element market and promoting the release of the value of data elements.
Actively carry out exploration everywhere.
For example, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other places are exploring the market-oriented configuration of data elements, and Shenzhen, Tianjin, Guizhou and other places have made great progress in data legislation, confirmation of rights, and transactions.
From 2014 to 2019, the construction of my country's big data trading platform formed the first wave of upsurge.
What impact will cultivating the data factor market have on the industry?
Wang Weiling said that for digital industrialization, the data element market will further stimulate the innovation vitality of new technologies, new products, and new tools of big data, and new formats such as data collection, data labeling, and data processing will usher in the driving force of the data element market. With greater development opportunities, data management capabilities will be more widely valued.
From a regional perspective, data circulation transactions and technology research and development are still concentrated in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, while labor-intensive industries such as data labeling and cleaning will gradually shift to less developed areas around the central economic belt.
For industrial digitization, with the development of the data element market, the process of integration of various industries and data will be further accelerated.
For example, for traditional industries, data has become a key hub for the deep integration of industrialization and informatization. The application of big data in new material research and development, biopharmaceuticals, equipment maintenance and other fields will improve the research and development, design, production and process testing of new products. Such revolutionary changes in the process can greatly improve the efficiency of enterprise development and production.
"The data element is not only a booster for the upgrading of traditional industries, but also a catalyst for nurturing emerging industries. Big data will be deeply integrated with traditional industries such as manufacturing and cultural creativity, and then a series of new emerging industries such as data services, data materials, and data prospecting will be derived. industry." Wang Weiling said.
"The key to cultivating the data element market is to establish rules and regulations, especially basic systems and standards related to data security, rights protection, data transfer, security certification, etc." Yang Chunli emphasized that its impact on the industry is mainly reflected in , promote the circulation of data elements in an orderly manner, enhance the efficiency of data services for the real economy, and promote the rapid development of the digital economy with data as the key element; deepen the development and utilization of data resources, further tap the value of data elements, and cultivate and develop new business forms driven by data resources. It is helpful to realize the market-oriented allocation of data elements, drive the allocation of capital, labor, technology and other elements to be more efficient, and promote the construction of an industrial innovation and development system that releases digital productivity.
Strengthen data security to prevent abuse
"To play the role of data elements, on the one hand, it is necessary to open up the circulation of data elements, so that data can be circulated to enterprises in need and improve the efficiency of data use; on the other hand, it is necessary to ensure data security through digital technology and prevent negative external effects caused by data abuse. ” said Pan Helin, co-director and researcher of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center of Zhejiang University International Business School.
360 security experts believe that the breaking of data barriers will create favorable conditions for the rational allocation of various resources, but it will also increase the risk of data leakage.
The network environment under the condition of "unified big market" will inevitably increase the risk of digital equipment being exposed to the network. The importance of digital security will become more prominent, and the needs of individuals, enterprises, and countries for network security and data security will be concentrated. release phenomenon.
"With emphasis on data security, circulation is hindered; with emphasis on data circulation, security is faced with challenges." Lu Zhipeng, member of the party group and deputy general manager of China Electronics Information Industry Group, introduced that China Electronics and Tsinghua University jointly carried out data governance engineering research, forming systems, technologies, The overall plan of the market trinity data governance project systematically resolves the contradiction between data security and circulation, and will accelerate its promotion to more cities in the future to help build a national unified data element market.
Yang Chunli said that to speed up the cultivation of the data element market, we should first strengthen the top-level design of basic systems and standards, build a standard framework system, and clarify key areas and directions, especially to accelerate the establishment and improvement of data security, rights protection, cross-border transmission management, transaction circulation, Open sharing, security certification and other basic systems and standards will enhance the support and leading role in cultivating the data element market.
"We can explore the separation of data ownership, data supervision and data use rights, and build a hierarchical and classified management model with clear rights and responsibilities for data, so as to promote the efficient development and utilization of data resources." Yang Chunli said.
Regarding how to speed up the cultivation of the data element market, Wang Weiling suggested that, in the short term, the pilot data element market should be actively carried out around key livelihood areas such as medical care, social security, and transportation; and other key urban agglomerations to form a data factor market alliance; in the long run, strengthening the capacity building of data factor management and improving data governance capabilities will have a strong role in promoting total factor productivity.
Huang Xin