en.Wedoany.com Reported - On May 23, the National Data Administration disclosed that the "Data Element ×" initiative is accelerating the construction and operation of data infrastructure. Two batches of data infrastructure pilot projects have cumulatively covered 15 industries and 43 cities, coordinated 19,000 ecosystem entities, listed 38,000 data products, and implemented over 270 application scenarios.
The focus of data infrastructure construction is shifting from single-point experimentation to parallel verification of multiple technical routes. The National Data Administration has successively carried out two batches of data infrastructure pilot projects, promoting the application and dynamic optimization of six technical routes, including privacy-preserving computation, blockchain, trusted data spaces, data fields, data networking, and data components, while incorporating cutting-edge technology directions such as data fabric, data mesh, and ontology during the pilot process. Compared to traditional information platform construction, data infrastructure places greater emphasis on cross-entity, cross-regional, and cross-system data circulation and trusted usage. It must not only make data "findable, mobilizable, and usable" but also resolve issues of data security, authorized use, metering and billing, privacy protection, and responsibility boundaries through technical and institutional arrangements.
These pilot data indicate that data infrastructure has entered a phase of "integrating construction with application." The coverage of 15 industries and 43 cities means that the pilot projects are no longer limited to a few demonstration areas; the participation of 19,000 ecosystem entities indicates that government departments, enterprises, research institutions, data providers, technical service providers, and scenario parties are being integrated into the same data circulation ecosystem; the listing of 38,000 data products transforms data resources from raw sedimentation into product forms that can be accessed, traded, developed, and reused.
At a previous on-site meeting on data infrastructure construction held in Guangzhou, the National Data Administration proposed that data infrastructure construction is moving from "being built" to "being used." The next step will be to accelerate the formulation of the "National Data Infrastructure Construction Action Plan" and promote major projects around key common capabilities such as unified directory identification, identity authentication, and access management. The meeting also proposed accelerating the dynamic optimization and upgrading of technical routes like trusted data spaces, privacy-preserving computation, blockchain, and data fields, exploring the application of new technologies such as data fabric, data stream processing, and ontology, and avoiding discussions of infrastructure detached from applications through scenario-driven approaches.
The "Data Element ×" competition has also been incorporated into the linkage mechanism between infrastructure construction and scenario application. Liu Liehong, head of the National Data Administration, stated that this year's competition has added a "Data Infrastructure Track," aiming to strengthen the coupling between data infrastructure and scenario applications through "promoting use through competition and integrating construction with application," thereby facilitating the dynamic optimization, upgrading, and standard verification of technical routes. According to the notice for the 2026 "Data Element ×" competition released by the National Data Administration in April, this year's competition features 16 industry sector tracks, including industrial manufacturing, modern agriculture, commerce and trade circulation, transportation, financial services, scientific and technological innovation, healthcare, urban governance, and green and low-carbon development, as well as one specialized track for data infrastructure.
Whether data infrastructure can truly unlock its value hinges critically on its integration into specific business scenarios. The implementation plan previously issued by the National Data Administration clearly states that the construction and operation of national data infrastructure should be driven by scenario applications and technological innovation, promoting the shift of infrastructure from "well-built" to "well-used." The plan proposes leveraging data infrastructure to support the implementation of institutional mechanisms for public data registration, processing, authorized operation, circulation pricing, and revenue distribution, and supporting typical "Data Element ×" scenario applications in fields such as industrial manufacturing, modern agriculture, and cultural tourism. This pathway connects data infrastructure with scenarios such as public data authorized operation, industry data integration, intelligent retrieval, trusted transmission, joint processing, large model training and inference, and agent collaboration, propelling data from resource sedimentation into operational, evaluable, and replicable application stages.
Subsequent project milestones include the release of the "National Data Infrastructure Construction Action Plan," the summary of results from the two batches of pilot projects, the selection of cases for the data infrastructure track, the verification of technical route standards, and the integration of more data products and application scenarios into a unified operational system. As the "Data Element ×" initiative continues to advance, data infrastructure construction will shift from city and industry pilots further towards supporting a nationally integrated data market, public data authorized operations, and data usage in artificial intelligence scenarios.
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