China's Next Big Challenge: Big Data

The main purpose of this paper is to argue that big data can be seen as the next big challenge to China. At first, this paper tries to describe what is the importance and value of big data. In section II and III, it expounds the benefits and risks of big data in China. Big data will have big positive impact on Chinese government. And it is a new impetus to the development of economic transformation in China. But there are still many risks, like data security, violation of data privacy, Chinese Internet censorship like the GFW. Finally, this paper concludes that big data are the next big challenge to China and introduces how to promote the development of big data.