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Guangzhou Public Data Open Platform

Guangzhou's open-data portal traces back to a government data platform launched 20 October 2016 with 300+ initial datasets across 14 sectors; it was rebuilt and relaunched on 5 June 2023 by the Guangzhou Municipal Government Services and Data Management Bureau and now lists 1,000+ datasets across 16 sectors, with a cumulative 150 million+ records. Use is free and non-discriminatory, but it is not an open license in the CC0/PDDL sense: the platform's terms require crediting "Guangzhou Public Data Open Platform" as the source, forbid reselling the data, and ask users to register their intended use with the platform.

Live 📅 since 2016

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

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📊 Impact

1,000+ datasets across 16 sectors, 150 million+ cumulative records as of the June 2023 relaunch (up from 300+ datasets across 14 sectors at the October 2016 launch); attribution required, resale forbidden (platform terms).

Evidence🏛️ Official

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Open data · Urban data platform (UDP) · Civic participation platform

Sources

↗ Cyberspace Administration of China (official)20 October 2016 launch: 300+ initial datasets, 14 sectors, built by Guangzhou's Industry and Information Technology Bureau.

↗ Baidu Baike (background)5 June 2023 relaunch: 1,000+ datasets, 16 sectors, 150M+ records, managed by the Government Services and Data Management Bureau.

↗ Guangzhou Municipal Government (official, via search)Public Data Authorization and Operation Management interim measures — basis for the terms-of-use summary; page confirmed via search-result extraction.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇨🇳 Shanghai Public Data Open Platform & SODA Contest · Shanghai Shanghai's portal carries no license at all; Guangzhou's requires attribution and forbids resale — two different answers to 'open'. 🇰🇷 Incheon Data Portal · Incheon Both portals were rebuilt from an earlier version — Incheon's 2024 relaunch cost ~₩4.15bn, Guangzhou's 2023 one tripled its datasets. 🇯🇵 Nagoya City Open Data Catalogue · Nagoya Same move: both portals were rebuilt and relaunched years after their original launch, publishing dataset counts, not usage.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Guangzhou Public Data Open Platform” — Guangzhou, China. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/guangzhou-open-data-portal/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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