Ma Yide, dean of the Intellectual Property School at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Building a data factor market entails two key tasks – safeguarding data property rights and promoting orderly data ownership, pricing and transactions. It is also important to enhance digital economy competition and law enforcement for the market's healthy operation.

China has effective legislation for data property rights, but recognizes that in the digital era, proactive technological protection is cost-efficient. It suggests adopting a system like Japan and South Korea to restrict unauthorized data usage, promoting "technological autonomy" in data protection.

For governing digital economy innovation and competition, the focus is on balancing investment innovation and fair data competition. Recommendations include strengthening antitrust enforcement, ensuring access to digital infrastructure, refining market regulations and exploring preventive measures for entities at risk of abusing dominant positions.