China’s annual “Two Sessions” policy jamboree on Tuesday produced a commitment to create a “national data bureau,” which the state-run Global Times hailed as an important step toward establishing the “digital China” of the future.
that the National Data Bureau would take over “big data” infrastructure from the NDRC, becoming responsible for building and maintaining the physical hardware needed, while most of its regulatory functions would be taken from the heavy-handed Cyberspace Affairs Commission .
“Creating the National Data Bureau also reflects Beijing’s design to maintain control over certain information and to use such data for state-led development initiatives, similar to how it oversees other economic inputs like land, capital and labor,” the“While details about the new bureau such as its size, budget and the officials to lead it remain unknown, the new agency forms a major part of the State Council’s broader restructuring plans, which include an empowered role for the Ministry of...
China has been clamping down on data transfers across its borders, so some analysts speculated the new bureau might help to deal with the mountain of compliance paperwork generated by those restrictions. “China has in recent years strengthened oversight over data collected in the country, motivated by fears that unchecked collection by private firms could allow state actors to weaponize information on infrastructure and other national interests, and the belief that data has become a strategic economic resource,” Reuters observed.
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