Group 1 - The core viewpoint is that since the "14th Five-Year Plan," China's data industry has experienced rapid growth, with new business forms and market entities emerging quietly [1][3] - The data industry is an emerging sector and a new growth point for the digital economy, encompassing various activities such as data collection, storage, circulation, transaction, development, and infrastructure construction [3] - By 2024, the number of data enterprises in China is expected to exceed 400,000, with the data industry scale reaching 5.86 trillion yuan, representing a 117% increase compared to the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" [5] Group 2 - Regionally, the Yangtze River Delta has formed a multi-layered, full-chain data industry ecosystem, with its data industry scale accounting for 22.6% of the national total in 2024 and over 100,000 data enterprises concentrated in the area, making it a significant growth pole for China's data industry [7] - Currently, a number of companies engaged in data labeling, governance, and transaction services are rapidly growing, with some third-party data service institutions emerging from scratch and continuously deepening their specialization in various fields [9]

Core Insights - China aims to cultivate and expand a number of enterprises in the data element industry chain, with an expected industry scale of 7.5 trillion yuan by 2030 [1] - As the first country globally to incorporate data as a production factor, China has established a comprehensive data industry chain [1] - In 2024, China's annual data production is projected to reach 41.06 zettabytes, representing a year-on-year growth of 25% [1] - Currently, there are over 190,000 companies in China's data sector, with the industry scale exceeding 2 trillion yuan [1] - Based on an estimated annual growth rate of over 20%, the data industry scale in China is expected to reach 7.5 trillion yuan by 2030 [1]