Base: Data opening “builds” the foundation of the sharing economy

“Running errands and breaking legs” has long been the most criticized problem for many residents when they go to government departments to work. Nowadays, with the development of data resource sharing, various matters such as provident fund withdrawal, family electricity, and enterprise certification can be easily completed in a short time.

In Zhengzhou, Henan Province, the former residents for the withdrawal of provident fund matters, need to provide the second generation of resident ID cards, household registration and other six types of materials, and now the applicant through the integration, the whole process of online government service platform “Zhenghao do” APP “brush face withdrawal provident fund” can be done in seconds, can really achieve “zero running, zero materials, palm to do, seconds to the account”.

Guo Chengming, director of the Big Data Administration Bureau of Zhengzhou, Henan Province, told reporters that at present, the platform has accumulated more than 70,000 provident fund businesses, with the withdrawal amount reaching 1.26 billion yuan, and the channel accounted for 53%, which greatly alleviated the pressure on the offline hall.

Government services are advancing with The Times, and the government’s social governance level is improving, which is indispensable for the continuous advancement of data resource sharing and openness.

In April this year, The State Council clearly proposed to “focus on accelerating the cultivation of data element market.” According to IDC estimates, from 2018 to 2025, the amount of data owned by China will grow from 7.5ZB to 48.6ZB, accounting for 27.8% of the world, much higher than the 17.5% of the United States.

In recent years, China’s government data resource sharing, government and enterprise data flow cooperation continues to blossom in various places: as a pioneer of “open government data”, all the cities in Guangdong Province and Shandong Province have launched data open platforms, forming the most intensive provincial “open forest” in China; In February this year, the Beijing Municipal Administration of Market Supervision jointly launched the “Cross-platform epidemic prevention and control” working mechanism with five e-commerce platforms, including JD.com, Ali, Pinduoduo, Weidian, and Suning Tesco, to share and share the information of merchants who were removed by the platform due to serious violations such as price gouging, false publicity, and selling fake and shoddy epidemic prevention supplies. Jointly prevent illegal businesses from engaging in illegal business activities across platforms, and form a new governance model featuring coordination between government and enterprises and diversified co-governance.

“The wider the flow of data, the greater the value.” In Lu Benfu’s view, data sharing and openness is the key basis for the development of the digital economy, and the value of data elements lies in circulation and application. He predicted that the future will trigger the new vitality of data sharing and opening up, and the deep application of cultivating and guiding practice will be promising.

Challenge: There are three hurdles to reignite the sharing economy

Affected by the epidemic, the sharing economy suffered heavy losses at the beginning of this year. According to the “China Sharing Economy Development Report (2020)” predicts that the growth rate of the sharing economy will fall by 8-10% in 2020 due to the impact of the epidemic, but in the long run, the growth rate of the sharing economy will still rise significantly in 202l and 2022, and the compound annual growth rate of the sharing economy is expected to remain at 10%-15% in the next three years.

“If we compare the development of the sharing economy to a game of chess, it has now reached the mid-disc stage, and it is time to ‘close the mouth’.” Lu Benfu said that since the rise of new models such as shared bicycles, the sharing economy has been growing for several years, and it has now reached the middle stage of development, and the next step should be to consider how to become bigger and stronger.

Zhang Xinhong, deputy director of the informatization research Department of the State Information Center, also said that the “crisis” of the sharing economy contains “vitality”. With the acceleration of the digital transformation of traditional industries, the competitive pattern of relevant industries and enterprises is becoming increasingly prominent, and a large number of new formats and new models will appear in various fields, which will create a number of super platforms.

Considering the current development status of the sharing economy, in order to rekindle “this fire”, it is still necessary to step through the three “obstacles” of technological innovation, industrial collaboration, and scientific supervision.

How to overcome these three “obstacles”? Lu Benfu believes that for the new forms and models of the sharing economy, government departments should adopt inclusive supervision, strengthen policy guidance, and establish a bottom-line thinking to protect consumers, and then formulate corresponding rules and policies until the industry forms a certain scale. “To activate the initiative of market players, we must let the bullets fly for a while.”

“When it comes to new business forms and models, all parties in society should break through their habitual thinking.” Zhang Xinhong admitted that there is a process for all sectors of society to recognize new forms of business and new models, and there are still widespread cases of not understanding, daring, and unwilling to develop new forms of business. Relevant departments should formulate laws, regulations and policy provisions to match them, and the regulatory model and technical means also need to be further improved and promoted.

He also noted that large amounts of data are currently in the hands of governments and enterprises, and the phenomenon of “digital silos” among various entities still exists. In the process of promoting data sharing and openness, problems such as data responsibility division and data sharing technology need to be further explored.