Hangzhou Data Open Platform
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Fudan's 2024 index puts Hangzhou in its top tier for data openness, a place it shares with Jinan — but 'open' means a registration wall for downloads and a separate approval process for anything sensitive.
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The strongest source is an independent non-academic evaluation: an audit office, a government or EU review, or an NGO. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 10 more in Hangzhou · 📊 Open data guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
Hangzhou's open-data portal (data.hangzhou.gov.cn) has published catalogues from 48 departments and 11 districts since being consolidated under China's first dedicated municipal data bureau, founded in 2017. Access is tiered: some datasets are free to view and download after registration, others need a formal application to unlock.
📊 Impact
As of September 2020 the portal's own user guide listed 613 open-data catalogues across 48 departments and 11 districts; a 2025 municipal work report set a target of roughly 100 additional catalogues for the year. Fudan University's independent 2024 China Open Data Index placed Hangzhou in its top tier for public data openness, a tier it shares with Jinan, and ranked it first among all Chinese cities on the index's four-year continuity sub-index.
🎓 Lesson
The catalogue is real and growing, but "open" here means free browsing plus a registration wall for downloads and a separate approval process for anything sensitive — a narrower kind of open than the no-strings catalogues this atlas tracks in Zurich or Montreal.
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placed Hangzhou in its top tier for public data openness, a tier it shares with Jinan, and ranked it first among all Chinese cities on the index's four-year continuity sub-index
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- Operator
- Hangzhou Municipal Big Data Resources Administration Bureau (杭州市数据资源管理局)
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- city-government
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- public
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4 source dossiers
Hangzhou Data Open Platform User Guide (Jianggan District government reprint, Sept 2020)
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- Name not classified · jgj.hangzhou.gov.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-08-06
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- 2026-08-20
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States the platform covers 48 departments and 11 districts/counties with 613 published open-data catalogues as of 8 Sept 2020; describes the two-tier access model and API rules.
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2024 China Open Data Index, Fudan University Digital & Mobile Governance Lab, via The Paper
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- Name not classified · m.thepaper.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2024-10-01
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- 2026-08-06
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Open the recorded source note
Hangzhou and Jinan both won the index's top 'five trees' award; Zhejiang and Hangzhou rank first at the provincial and city level respectively (published 26 Sept 2024).
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2025 Hangzhou Municipal Government Work Report
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- Name not classified · hznews.hangzhou.com.cn
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-05-28
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- 2026-08-06
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Open the recorded source note
Sets a 2025 target of adding roughly 100 new open-data catalogues, confirming the platform remains actively operated.
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Zhejiang Online, on the founding of the Data Resources Bureau
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- 2026-08-06
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Confirms the Hangzhou Municipal Big Data Resources Administration Bureau was established in 2017 to unify the city's government/public data platforms.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Hangzhou Data Open Platform” — Hangzhou, China. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/hangzhou-open-data/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.
The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.