Recently, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Administration, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the "Guidelines for the Construction of National Data Infrastructure", guiding the promotion of data infrastructure construction and promoting the formation of a basic pattern of national data infrastructure with horizontal connectivity, vertical connectivity, and strong coordination. What role will the document play? How to better promote open sharing and unleash the value of data elements? On the 6th, the National Data Administration held a special press conference on "Accelerating the Construction of National Data Infrastructure", and the relevant person in charge provided an interpretation. According to the document, national data infrastructure is a new type of infrastructure that provides data collection, aggregation, transmission, processing, circulation, utilization, operation, and security services to society from the perspective of releasing the value of data elements. It is an organic whole that integrates hardware, software, model algorithms, standard specifications, mechanism design, etc. According to survey data released by relevant institutions, the scale of China's data industry will reach 2 trillion yuan in 2023, with over 190000 data enterprises nationwide. The sustained development and growth of the data industry require further integration of various advantageous resources, deepening industrial cooperation, and reducing operating costs. The introduction of the document is conducive to lowering the threshold for enterprise data development and utilization, and cultivating a good ecosystem for the data industry Shen Zhulin, Deputy Director of the National Data Administration, said at the meeting that the construction of national data infrastructure will provide a low-cost, high-efficiency, and reliable data circulation and utilization environment for various data subjects, stimulate innovation vitality, improve the data circulation and transaction service ecosystem, and create a competitive, orderly, prosperous, and active data industry. The national data infrastructure has the characteristics of large investment scale and long construction period. During the construction process, it is necessary to gather the strength and wisdom of all parties and play a synergistic role. Shen Zhulin said that through the construction of national data infrastructure, relevant enterprises in information and communication, technology development, system integration, etc. will be cultivated to empower the coordinated development of upstream and downstream industries and build a high-level division of labor and cooperation system. It is reported that the national data infrastructure will also drive the circulation and utilization of data, as well as the construction and upgrading of network, computing power, security and other facilities, promoting effective social investment. According to preliminary industry estimates, data infrastructure will attract approximately 400 billion yuan in direct investment annually, driving an investment scale of approximately 2 trillion yuan over the next five years. The combination of sectors and blocks promotes the interconnection of facilities. The national data infrastructure is composed of various types of data infrastructure such as regions, industries, and enterprises under the overall planning of the country. The document focuses on the deployment and construction tasks of data circulation and utilization, computing power base, network support, security protection, etc., providing guidance for various regions, industries, and fields to carry out data infrastructure construction based on actual conditions and local conditions. Building a national data infrastructure is the key to unleashing the value of data elements and an urgent need to construct a nationwide integrated data market Du Wei, Director of the Digital Technology and Infrastructure Construction Department of the National Data Administration, said. In recent years, various industries and regions have continued to explore the construction of data infrastructure. From meteorological science data sharing platform to crop harvest prediction, from relying on health and medical data public service platform to achieve full coverage of public health clinical diagnosis and treatment in the province, to building industrial data platforms in industrial parks to help reduce carbon emissions, the technical routes and application practices of data fields, trustworthy data space, and data networking have been extended to all aspects of the economy and society. Industry data infrastructure undertakes tasks such as promoting vertical connectivity between upstream and downstream industries, deeply empowering industries to improve quality and efficiency, while regional data infrastructure undertakes tasks such as local public data collection, development and utilization, and security governance Li Jianguo, Deputy Director of the Digital Technology and Infrastructure Construction Department of the National Data Administration, said that efforts will be made to accelerate the integration of departments and infrastructure, form a multi center and networked public data infrastructure service system, accelerate the reuse of data in different scenarios and fields, and promote data public services in a larger and wider range of areas. Strengthen support and promote the implementation of the document. The document depicts a beautiful vision of "integrating massive data, benefiting thousands of industries, and seeing the digital future with wisdom", and makes specific plans for the promotion path. It proposes that by 2029, the main structure of the national data infrastructure will be basically established, and a basic pattern of horizontal connectivity, vertical connectivity, and strong coordination of the national data infrastructure will be preliminarily formed. The construction and operation system and mechanism of the national data infrastructure will be basically established. Building data infrastructure requires the establishment of a strong data security 'firewall'. Shen Zhulin said that we will promote the synchronous planning, construction, and operation of the security guarantee system and circulation and utilization facilities. In accordance with the requirements of data security related laws and regulations, combined with the scope, impact, and traffic scale of data circulation, we will differentiate usage scenarios and usage amounts, and establish and improve data security related standards and specifications. Network infrastructure, computing power infrastructure, and national data infrastructure are closely related and continuously support the circulation and utilization of data through iterative upgrades. Sun Ji, Deputy Director of the Information and Communication Development Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that we will strengthen technological collaborative innovation, accelerate the formulation of common standards for infrastructure such as computing power and networks, moderately advance the construction of network facilities, enrich the application scenarios of computing power, and continuously improve the comprehensive supply capacity of computing networks. Zhao Zhidan, Deputy Director of the High tech Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said that efforts will be made to accelerate the construction of a nationwide integrated computing power network, coordinate the layout of general computing power, intelligent computing power, and super computing power, create a low-cost, high-quality, and easy-to-use computing power service supply system, and better play the supporting role of computing power base. In addition, the reporter learned that the National Data Administration will continue to support technology experimentation, establish and improve incentive mechanisms, increase various financial support, and promote the construction of national data infrastructure. (New Society)