The Shanghai pilot program for international cooperation in the data sector was officially launched during the recent Tech Week Shanghai, where experts and business leaders from home and abroad called for more global exchanges and further ties in the fast-evolving artificial intelligence era.
With data becoming a key factor of production that drives economic and social development, digital cooperation is reshaping the landscape of global governance. As part of the global Tech Week series, the newly inaugurated Tech Week Shanghai aimed to build a platform that connects China and the rest of the world in data cooperation.
During the opening ceremony, Yu Ying, deputy head of the National Data Administration, said Shanghai stood among China's first batch of pilot cities for international cooperation in the data sector.
The city, which is aiming to become a global digital hub, has developed a substantive and well-defined implementation plan, outlining 17 specific tasks centered on leading infrastructure, mutual recognition of rules, platform empowerment and scenario integration.
Yu said she expects Shanghai to strengthen efforts in diverse aspects, including promoting interconnection with international data infrastructure, enhancing alignment of international rules and standards, fostering an international data service chain, supporting digital businesses in overseas expansion, and deepening opening-up and multilateral data cooperation mechanisms.
