Data law is the product of information technology that has developed to a certain historical stage

and it is also the result of the real-time expansion of data content together with changes in social relations. Data law in China has experienced three periods: first

the germination stage

characterized by scattered and disordered legislation aiming to support information construction in the late 1980s; next

the formation stage

featuring a large amount of emergency data legislation attempting to organize the information industry in the late 1990s; and last

since 2012

the evolution stage

with data being treated as an independent object and data law aiming to balance the development of industry and the protection of rights. Looking to the future

the overall trend of data law in China will inevitably develop towards systematization

categorization and abstraction as a result of forming an orderly data legislation system. This system will be constructed of the Basic Law of Data

designed to set the direction

and four separate laws for regulating the main legal relationships connected with data: the Personal Information Protection Law

the Open Government Data Law

the Data Property Law and the Data Security Law. Globally

data law in China will link up withinternational legislation by building up cross-border data rules

strengthening the degree of protection over personal information and contributing China's legislative wisdom regarding data to the whole world.