As the organic combination of digital technology and international trade, digital trade plays a more important role in China's expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world, and is a new engine for China to accelerate the construction of trade power. To further promote the high-quality development of digital trade is not only an effective measure to cultivate new drivers of foreign trade, but also an inevitable requirement for expanding institutional opening-up. Throughout the birth and development of digital trade, technology, data and institutions are important supports. Technological progress and penetration provide the underlying impetus for the innovation and development of trade patterns, the development and application of data provide a key starting point for the establishment of international competitive advantage, and the optimization and improvement of the system provide an important guarantee for the establishment of an efficient and standardized, fair competition and fully open market system. At present, China's digital trade is booming, but the proportion of digital trade volume in the total import and export is not high enough, the structure needs to be optimized, and there are still factors in the market that restrict enterprises to improve trade performance. To this end, it is necessary to better leverage the important role of technology, data and institutions through reforms in relevant fields, and continuously unleash the growth potential of digital trade.
Data dimension: Coordinate data flow and data security
Digital trade is inseparable from the role of data as a new production factor in many aspects, such as reducing information asymmetry, carrying out differentiated competition, grasping individual needs, and implementing dynamic pricing. Different from traditional factors such as labor and capital, data has outstanding characteristics such as non-competition, non-depletion and replicability, which makes data produce higher economic benefits at a lower marginal cost. This feature and advantage determine that, on the one hand, only the flow of data can play a better role; On the other hand, the value of data must be based on data security. In the process of further promoting the high-quality development of digital trade, data flow and data security need to be considered in an overall way.
Promote the rational flow of data to accelerate the value of data elements. Strengthen the development of all kinds of data, and do a good job in the whole life cycle value management of data. At present, the development of data is mainly reflected in the consumer side, and the use of large amounts of data deposited in other links of the supply chain is insufficient, and many small and medium-sized enterprises still lack the awareness of using data to empower. It is necessary to further expand the scope of development of digital trade data, especially strengthen the exploration of inquiry, production, logistics, after-sales and other links of data, open up the collection, labeling, storage, transmission, management, analysis, application and other links, pay attention to the control of data quality in each link, and create a closed loop of data governance and management. Improve the market trading mechanism, and expand the application scenarios of data elements through data flow. At present, Guizhou, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Shandong and other provinces have established data exchanges or data trading centers, based on these institutions to build data flow and sharing platforms with rich content, diversified modes and transparent transactions, and build data transaction chains, which can fully match data innovation products for various scenarios of digital trade. Actively explore the mode of orderly cross-border data flow by gradually piloting international big data exchanges and cross-border digital service alliances across the country, vigorously develop new formats such as offshore data service outsourcing and offshore data trading platforms, and open up international channels for data elements to empower digital trade.
Strengthen data security in the process of data flow. In the digital trade activities, strengthen the protection of data rights for consumers, enterprises and other subjects, and regulate the data transaction market. The collection, storage, transaction, and use of data of consumers, manufacturers, service providers and other entities shall strictly abide by the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws and regulations, ensure the security of data throughout its life cycle, limit the scope of use of various data products in the form of contracts, and unblock third-party and social supervision channels. Improve the accountability system for all links in the data transaction chain. We will establish standards and rules for cross-border data flows and explore mechanisms for international mutual recognition. The cross-border flow of data can help digital trade enterprises grasp the dynamics of the international market and carry out flexible production strategies, but only if the orderly and safe flow is guaranteed within a reasonable range.