Filed under important-data
Every brief tagged "important-data".
- § 07 · DATA-TRADING
Mapping the Red Lines: Compliance Assessment for Surveying and Geographic-Information Data Products on a Chinese Data Exchange
When Sichuan province's first surveying and geographic-information (测绘地理信息) data product was listed on the Shenzhen Data Exchange (深圳数据交易所), the compliance team from Si Chuan Rui Li Heng Law Firm worked through a seven-point assessment framework that goes well beyond general data-trading rules. This brief walks overseas counsel through that framework: why the surveying-and-mapping regime (测绘法 and subordinate rules) adds a specialist qualification layer on top of the Network Data Security Management Regulations; how the classified-surveying-results (涉密测绘成果) screen works in practice; what 'important geographic-information data' (重要地理信息数据) means for tradability; and why data origin — self-collected versus purchased versus project-derived — changes the due-diligence checklist materially. The operational takeaway: for this sector, general data-exchange compliance is necessary but not sufficient.
- § 08 · IMPORTANT-DATA
'Important Data' Is a Category, Not a Tier
Hong Yanqing argues the mainstream reading of Article 21 of the Data Security Law confuses enterprise asset-inventory language with state-level legal-interest protection — with real consequences for cross-border transfers, enforcement, and how PIPL and DSL stack.
- § 09 · IMPORTANT-DATA
How to Identify 'Important Data' — A Plain-Language Method from Wang Qinglan
Wang Qinglan, head of compliance at a Chinese data exchange, walks through China's unique 'important data' concept in plain language: where it came from, why no other major jurisdiction has anything quite like it, how the U.S., EU, Japan and Korea solve the same problem differently, and — most useful for compliance teams — three methods to identify whether a dataset is 'important' in practice. Her own 'unorthodox' shortcut: ask whether a hostile foreign actor could use this data to cause trouble. If yes, treat it as important data.
- § 10 · CROSS-BORDER
FTZ Data Export Negative Lists — How 17 Sectors Across Seven Provinces Now Identify Important Data
Article 6 of the 2024 CBDF Provisions authorized Free Trade Zones to publish data-export negative lists. Since then, Tianjin, Beijing, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and others have published negative lists covering 17 sectors — automotive, pharmaceuticals, retail, civil aviation, reinsurance, deep-sea industry, seed industry, and more. Compliance Talker's analysis walks through the structural convergence of the negative lists, the important-data identification refinements each FTZ has produced, and the operational impact on enterprises both inside and outside the FTZs.