Guangzhou Public Data Open Platform
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✎ Corrected 27 Aug 2026 Publication date recorded for 3 sources. What changed →
Guangzhou's open-data portal grew from 300 datasets in 2016 to 1,000+ after a 2023 relaunch — free to use, but not an open license: every reuse must credit the platform by name and can't be resold.
what does this mean?
The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 7 more in Guangzhou · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
Guangzhou's open-data portal traces back to a unified government data platform opened on 20 October 2016 with more than 300 initial datasets spanning the economy, transport, health, tourism and civil affairs; it was rebuilt and relaunched in June 2023 and is run by the Guangzhou Municipal Government Services and Data Management Bureau, listing over 1,000 datasets across 16 priority domains with a cumulative volume above 150 million records. Use is free and non-discriminatory, but it is not an open licence in the CC0/PDDL sense: the municipal government's record of the terms requires crediting "Guangzhou Public Data Open Platform" as the source, forbids reselling the data, and asks users to register their intended use.
📊 Impact
More than 1,000 datasets across 16 priority domains and a cumulative volume above 150 million records as of June 2023, up from more than 300 datasets at the October 2016 launch; attribution required, resale forbidden under the platform's terms.
🎓 Lesson
Free of charge is not the same as open. Everything the portal asks for — name the platform as the source, do not resell, tell us what you intend to do with it — is compatible with publishing a great deal of data and incompatible with the reuse guarantee that a licence like CC0 or PDDL gives, because each condition is a permission the operator grants and can withdraw. The registration requirement is the sharpest of the three: a portal that knows who is using which dataset for what is not the same artefact as one that does not, however many rows it holds. And the headline volume — over 150 million records — measures the size of the files, not how much of the city's business they describe.
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Guangzhou's open-data portal traces back to a unified government data platform opened on 20 October 2016 with more than 300 initial datasets spanning the economy, transport, health, tourism and civil affairs
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it was rebuilt and relaunched in June 2023 and is run by the Guangzhou Municipal Government Services and Data Management Bureau, listing over 1,000 datasets across 16 priority domains with a cumulative volume above 150 million records
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the municipal government's record of the terms requires crediting "Guangzhou Public Data Open Platform" as the source, forbids reselling the data, and asks users to register their intended use
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More than 1,000 datasets across 16 priority domains and a cumulative volume above 150 million records as of June 2023, up from more than 300 datasets at the October 2016 launch
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attribution required, resale forbidden under the platform's terms
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name the platform as the source, do not resell, tell us what you intend to do with it
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the headline volume — over 150 million records — measures the size of the files, not how much of the city's business they describe
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Guangzhou Municipal Government Services and Data Management Bureau
- Actor types
- city-government
- Funding model
- public
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- Not recorded
- Cost
- Not recorded
- Ownership
- Not recorded
- Decision rights
- Not recorded
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- Not recorded
3 source dossiers
Cyberspace Administration of China (official)
- Stable source ID
src-632a1be78e5b9557- Publisher
- Name not classified · cac.gov.cn
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2016-10-21
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-02
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
- Retrieved copy
- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
A report of the launch ceremony of 20 October 2016, carried from Guangzhou Daily.
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Baidu Baike (background)
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src-b067f5ecda1d23f1- Publisher
- Name not classified · baike.baidu.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-02
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- 2026-08-27
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
An encyclopaedia entry recording the operating bureau and the platform's figures as of June 2023. A continuously edited wiki page with no publication date.
Guangzhou Municipal Government (official, via search)
- Stable source ID
src-8d1963517b44a984- Publisher
- Name not classified · gz.gov.cn
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2024-12-06
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-08-02
- Dossier created
- 2026-08-27
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- No local capture recorded
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- No archived copy linked
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- No captured content hash
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- Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Open the recorded source note
The municipal government's record of the platform and its terms of use. The notice is signed by the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Government Services and Data Administration and dated 6 December 2024.
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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.