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If data is the new oil, then China is the new OPEC. The country's massive population—nearing 1.4 billion people—offers researchers and start-ups valuable human data for AI training. Meanwhile, Chinese users are demanding more data privacy. After years of Chinese internet companies building business models around Chinese people's lack of awareness about privacy, users are becoming more knowledgeable, and they are getting angry about companies abusing their personal information. China is putting together a comprehensive legal framework to protect individual data rights from large internet platforms, and China's legal development as part of the global digital governance system simply cannot be ignored.