Chapter 2 One data state, two data logics: unfolding China’s data governance
1 Introduction
On 7 March 2023, during the annual National People’s Congress session, China’s State Council revealed its plan to establish a new government agency – a National Data Bureau (NDB), to centralize its management of the country’s vast stores of data and deepen the reform of the Communist Party of China and the state institutions (The State Council of the People’s Republic of China 2023). The new bureau will be placed under China’s main economic planning agency – the National Development and Reform Commission. According to the draft plan, the new bureau is explicitly designed to oversee “coordinating the integration, sharing, ...
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