Draft plan aims to ensure data security By MA SI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-07-13 07:21 Share CLOSE The nation aims to achieve breakthroughs in a number of crucial cybersecurity technologies by 2023. [Photo/IC]
China plans to step up the development of data security products and services, as part of a broader push to cultivate its cybersecurity industry into a 250 billion yuan ($38.6 billion) sector by 2023.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the industry regulator, said in a draft three-year plan released on Monday that more efforts are needed to enhance capabilities in data management, with a focus on ensuring security in the storage, transfer and privacy of data. The move came as data security becomes a prerequisite for digital economic prowess and countries worldwide ramp up regulatory measures to better govern and protect data assets, experts said.