2025-04-09
2025 Trusted Data Space Innovation and Development Pilot Program Focuses on Three Key Areas
On April 7, the reporter learned from the National Data Administration that it launched the 2025 Trusted Data Space Innovation and Development Pilot Program recently, focusing on three key areas: enterprises, industries, and cities. With two years of development, the program aims to establish a series of trusted data spaces featuring rich resources, innovative applications, thriving ecosystems, and significant outcomes. It will create replicable and scalable models in areas such as data resource development and utilization, secure and reliable data circulation, value co-creation of data elements, and innovation in data systems and mechanisms. Additionally, it will explore new models and pathways for the large-scale circulation and utilization of data resources.
A trusted data space is a data circulation and utilization infrastructure built on consensus-based rules, that connects multiple stakeholders to enable the shared use of data resources. It not only serves as an ecosystem for co-creating the value of data elements but also plays a key role in supporting the development of a national integrated data market.
At the end of last year, the National Data Administration released the Trusted Data Space Development Action Plan (2024–2028), which outlines the goal to achieve breakthroughs in operations, technology, ecology, standards, and security of trusted data spaces, build more than 100 trusted data spaces and develop a series of data space solutions and best practices by 2028.
The pilot program for the innovation and development of trusted data spaces will focus on three key areas: enterprises, industries, and cities. For the enterprise-focused trusted data space pilots, the program will support leading companies in operating trusted data spaces, strengthening data-driven innovation practices, improving data supply mechanisms, and enriching data application scenarios. It will also foster collaboration between upstream and downstream businesses in the supply chain, as well as ecosystem partners, to share and open data resources together. In addition, the program will provide inclusive and user-friendly data products and services for small and medium-sized enterprises, empowering them to innovate with data.
For the industry-focused trusted data space pilots, the program will focus on sectors such as new materials, technology, energy, logistics, and healthcare. It will support the creation of trusted data spaces tailored to specific industries, fostering a collaborative, multi-party mechanism for data circulation and utilization. This approach will facilitate cross-domain data sharing, enable efficient resource integration, and build high-value industry databases, knowledge repositories, and model libraries. Additionally, the program will focus on common data innovation applications such as collaborative R&D, cross-domain scheduling, and product passports, aiming to co-create a range of data products and services.
For the city-focused trusted data space pilots, the program will focus on meeting the digital transformation needs of entire cities. It will explore effective mechanisms and incentive measures to integrate public and enterprise data for innovative applications, while also building a city data resource system. Additionally, the program will explore the creation of a one-stop service base model to attract and incubate a group of data companies and third-party service providers that contribute to the development of trusted data spaces in cities, to establish a collaborative, shared ecosystem for data circulation and utilization.
According to the National Data Administration, through the pilot program, replicable and scalable empirical models will be created to accumulate operational experience in national data infrastructure, and support the development of a national integrated data market.
