On May 24, 2024, during the 7th Digital China Summit, the SAC announced the establishment of the National Data Standardization Technical Committee.
This TC will be responsible for the formulation and revision of general standards in areas such as data infrastructure, data resources, data technology, data circulation, smart cities, and digital transformation, as well as national standards in data infrastructure and data circulation-related security. It will mirror the work areas of ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee on Data Management and Interchange (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32), ISO/IEC JTC 1 Working Group on Smart Cities (ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 11), and ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence Data Group (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 WG 2).
The secretariat of this TC will be undertaken by the China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), with the National Data Bureau responsible for daily management and business guidance.
Currently, China has other standardization technical committees in the data standardization field, such as TC159/SC4 (industrial data), TC260/WG8 (data security), and several technical organizations for data standardization in specific fields like satellites and aircraft. How the new standardization technical committee will further define its scope of work and coordinate with existing standardization technical organizations will be disclosed in further announcements from the committee.
