Asian Tech Press (Aug 31) -- The Communist Party of China (CPC), the Asian country's ruling party, has vowed to take control of data to improve data security, as its data security law is about to be implemented.

The Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China (DSL) will come into force on September 1, 2021, which fully demonstrates the high importance China attaches to data security.

On December 8, 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping pointed out during a group study, "National data security should be effectively safeguarded. It is necessary to strengthen the security protection of critical information infrastructure, reinforce the protection capacity of national critical data resources, and enhance the ability of early warning and traceability for data security."

In recent years, technologies and applications, such as big data, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, have developed at a rapid pace, which is accompanied by the growing prominence of network and big data security issues.

Cybersecurity and data security is an important part of safeguarding national security. The core of cybersecurity is big data security, and big data security is related to and affects cybersecurity and national security, citizens' personal privacy rights and interests and social security and stability, etc.

The Data Security Law implements classified and graded protection of data, defining data in areas such as national security, lifelines of national economy, significant public interests as national core data and implementing a more stringent management system.

In order to strengthen data control, the Chinese state enterprises decided to further reinforce the unified leadership of the Communist Party on cybersecurity and informatization, and to establish and improve the system and mechanism of the Communist Party to manage data.

In China, state-owned enterprises are the processors of important data or even national core data.