Freer data flows to boost innovation By CHENG YU | China Daily | Updated: 2021-03-11 09:21 Share CLOSE A person uses a mobile phone in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong province, May 1, 2017. [Photo/Sipa] Sustained efforts to curb data monopoly and promote freer flow of data among Chinese companies can stimulate technological innovation and enable more breakthroughs, said lawmakers and political advisers at the two sessions. "The value of data cannot be maximized if a certain company uses it exclusively. Data from various departments, fields and industries need to be fully combined and correlated," said Yi Tong, a researcher at the Beijing Academy of Science and Technology and a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress.