Established in April 2018, it is mainly responsible for the construction and management of the city's government cloud and government extranet infrastructure, the centralized and unified management of public ****data resources, and the construction of the "Shanghai, China" portal and the "one network through the office". The center will build the city's data resources ****. The center will build a citywide data resource ****sharing system, formulate technical standards and management methods for data resource collection, governance, ****sharing, openness, application, security, etc., and realize data ****sharing and exchanges across hierarchical levels, departments, systems, and businesses.

The main responsibilities of the Shanghai Big Data Center are to implement the national guidelines and policies on big data development, and to be a basic tool for Shanghai's big data development strategy, local laws and regulations, draft regulations and policy proposals.