Ministry: Data to hog limelight at digital summit

More efforts will be made to cultivate the data market and encourage enterprises of all types of ownership to participate in the construction of data trading platforms, said the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Tuesday.

Wang Jianwei, deputy head of the information technology development department at the ministry, said steps will also be taken to guide telecommunication, finance, electric power and other industries to open data, and improve the volume and quality of data supply.

Wang made the comments at a news conference for the fifth Digital China Summit, which is scheduled to be held in Fuzhou, Fujian province, from July 23 to 24.