In 2024, the number of data companies nationwide exceeded 400,000.

Liu Liehong, member of the Party Group of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, introduced at the theme press conference "High-quality completion of the 'Fourteenth Five-Year Plan'" held by the State Council Information Office on August 14 that during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, China's data industry has grown rapidly in scale. According to research by the National Institute of Data Development, by 2024, the number of data enterprises nationwide will exceed 400,000, and the scale of the data industry will reach 5.86 trillion yuan, an increase of 117% from the end of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan". It is expected that the industry will continue to maintain a high growth rate in the coming years.