National Development and Reform Commission: Encourage regions with conditions to explore the issuance of "data vouchers" and "algorithm vouchers" to reduce the cost of using data.

The National Development and Reform Commission issued a notice today on "Several Measures to Strengthen the Cultivation of Innovative Enterprises in the Digital Economy". It mentioned that local authorities are encouraged to speed up the establishment of a public data authorization and operation mechanism and application innovation ecology, promote sustainable supply and development of public data, and support fair participation of innovative enterprises in the development and utilization of public data resources under the premise of ensuring data security compliance. Explores ways to ensure that innovative enterprises can meet the early needs of public data resource development and utilization through cost sharing and profit sharing. Encourages regions with conditions to explore issuing "data vouchers" and "algorithm vouchers" to reduce the cost of data use. Encourages state-owned enterprises, industry-leading enterprises, platform enterprises, etc. to build data service platforms in the industrial chain upstream and downstream, platform ecosystem, develop and provide inclusive data products and technical tools, and provide key support to enterprises and industries that provide inclusive and convenient data services to meet the development needs of innovative enterprises.