DOI: 10.57760/sciencedb.34546
title: China Data Element Governance Policy Corpus (2000–2025)
title: 2000-2025年中国数据要素治理政策文本数据集

description: The dataset comprises three categories of policy texts. The first category consists of central-level policy documents, primarily including programmatic and strategic documents issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council. The second category covers ministerial-level documents, which include guidance policies, regulations, and official opinions released by various State Council ministries and commissions concerning data element governance and related industries. The third category includes provincial and municipal policy documents, issued by provincial and city-level governments and their competent authorities, mainly aimed at guiding the development of data elements at the regional level. Based on these criteria, all policy texts related to data element governance issued by central authorities, ministries, and provincial and municipal governments between 2000 and 2025 were collected. Data collection was completed on November 6, 2025.In terms of data collection methods, a combination of web crawling and manual collection was employed. For websites that allow bulk access or public downloading, a self-developed web crawler was used to automatically collect policy documents. For websites with access restrictions, verification requirements, or dynamic content loading, policy texts were manually downloaded and organized by the research team. This mixed approach was adopted to ensure both the completeness and accuracy of the dataset.Data processing involved four main steps: data review and cleaning, legal hierarchy classification, policy content screening, and documentation of data fields and outputs. After these procedures, a total of 622 valid policy texts were retained. The final dataset consists of a structured data table and a folder containing full-text policy documents. The data table includes eight fields: policy title, issuing authority, date of promulgation, date of implementation, legal or regulatory classification, validity status, document number, and original policy URL. In addition, the dataset provides the full text of each policy document, along with selected supplementary policy attachments where available.
description: The dataset comprises three categories of policy texts. The first category consists of central-level policy documents, primarily including programmatic and strategic documents issued by the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council. The second category covers ministerial-level documents, which include guidance policies, regulations, and official opinions released by various State Council ministries and commissions concerning data element governance and related industries. The third category includes provincial and municipal policy documents, issued by provincial and city-level governments and their competent authorities, mainly aimed at guiding the development of data elements at the regional level. Based on these criteria, all policy texts related to data element governance issued by central authorities, ministries, and provincial and municipal governments between 2000 and 2025 were collected. Data collection was completed on November 6, 2025.In terms of data collection methods, a combination of web crawling and manual collection was employed. For websites that allow bulk access or public downloading, a self-developed web crawler was used to automatically collect policy documents. For websites with access restrictions, verification requirements, or dynamic content loading, policy texts were manually downloaded and organized by the research team. This mixed approach was adopted to ensure both the completeness and accuracy of the dataset.Data processing involved four main steps: data review and cleaning, legal hierarchy classification, policy content screening, and documentation of data fields and outputs. After these procedures, a total of 622 valid policy texts were retained. The final dataset consists of a structured data table and a folder containing full-text policy documents. The data table includes eight fields: policy title, issuing authority, date of promulgation, date of implementation, legal or regulatory classification, validity status, document number, and original policy URL. In addition, the dataset provides the full text of each policy document, along with selected supplementary policy attachments where available.