Media Statements

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Hong Kong (PCPD) visited the Shenzhen Data Exchange in Shenzhen on 6 June to deepen the understanding of each other’s work and exchange views on the parties’ future collaboration and the promotion of digital economy.
 
The establishment of the Shenzhen Data Exchange is a significant move of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government in actualising the spirit of the State Council’s “Implementation Plan for the Comprehensive Reform of the Pilot Demonstration Zone for Building Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in Shenzhen (2020-2025)” and is a major initiative which aims to  implement Shenzhen’s data marketisation reform.
 
The Shenzhen Data Exchange strives to provide a national trading platform for cross-border and cross-boundary data flows through providing services that cover the complete data transaction cycle, from ensuring compliance, supporting circulation, connecting supply and demand, to developing the relevant ecosystem. The Data Exchange serves as a demonstration of data marketisation and provides transaction models in the Mainland’s development of a digital economy.
 
Hong Kong’s Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data, Ms Ada CHUNG Lai-ling, said, “The PCPD is grateful for the hospitality of the Shenzhen Data Exchange. With increasing socio-economic interactions between Hong Kong and the Mainland following the promulgation of the “Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area”, the importance of safeguarding data security and personal data cannot be overstated. The PCPD looks forward to fostering its collaboration with the Shenzhen Data Exchange in the future with a view to making further contributions to the development of the digital economy of the country.”