Data management key to smart city success

China's emphasis on promoting the development of smart cities and urban digital transformation is expected to bolster the innovative growth of the digital economy, help foster new quality productive forces and push forward the modernization of urban governance systems and capacity, officials and experts said.

Noting that data serve as the foundation and core element of the digital economy, they called for more efforts to promote the exploitation and opening up of data, as well as the efficient circulation and use of data elements, while expanding the application scenarios for data in more key fields.

Liu Liehong, head of the National Data Administration, said more efforts are needed to support urban areas to accelerate the implementation of basic systems for data that cover data property rights, circulation and trading, revenue distribution and security governance in light of their own conditions, and build dynamic, classified and graded data management systems so as to unleash the value of data resources.