Liu Liehong, National Bureau of Statistics: This year plans to deploy a batch of pilot projects for the construction of data industry aggregation zones.

Liu Liehong, member of the Party group of the National Development and Reform Commission and head of the National Bureau of Statistics, stated at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on August 14 that the National Bureau of Statistics plans to deploy a number of data industry agglomeration zone construction pilot projects this year. With this as the starting point, the bureau will continuously optimize the industrial layout, accelerate the formation of industrial ecology and scale advantages. In the next step, the National Bureau of Statistics will continue to optimize the development environment of the data industry, cultivate diverse operators, provide more powerful support for the development of new quality productivity, and shape new dynamics and advantages.