The Faculty of Data Science of City University of Macau, in collaboration with Macau MAIA Technology Co., Ltd. ("MAIA") and Max Broad Tech (Zhuhai Hengqin) Technology Co., Ltd. ("Max Broad Tech"), has initiated the construction of the "Joint Laboratory for Data Circulation Security and Compliance Governance". The signing ceremony for the cooperation agreement was held at the Taipa Campus. Zhou Wanlei, Vice President of CityU and Dean of the Faculty of Data Science, Cai Siwei, Managing Director of MAIA, and Bai Zhiyong, representative of Max Broad Tech, signed the agreement on behalf of the three parties respectively. The joint laboratory will integrate the scientific research and industrial resources of the three parties and focus on key directions such as cross-border data security compliance detection technology, dynamic monitoring of encrypted data flow risks, and multimodal intelligent review algorithms to conduct research and development. Through university-enterprise collaborative innovation, it will help key industries in the Greater Bay Area, such as cross-border e-commerce, medical services, and cross-border trade, to break through technical bottlenecks and promote the deep integration of scientific research results with local economic development.

Vice President Zhou Wanlei stated that the joint laboratory will become an important fulcrum for Macau to integrate into the national digital strategy. Through the integration of government, industry, academia, research, and application, it will support the moderate diversified development of Macau's economy. This cooperation will not only set a benchmark for cross-border data circulation in the Greater Bay Area but also export Chinese wisdom through international exchange platforms and contribute a bay area model to global digital governance. The three parties will use the laboratory as a hub to build an international cooperation network extending to the "Belt and Road" countries and Portuguese-speaking countries, regularly holding events such as the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Data Governance Summit Forum and cross-border technology docking meetings. In line with the national "Digital Silk Road" strategy, it will promote international mutual recognition of data security standards and explore Chinese solutions for cross-border data flows.

General Manager Cai Siwei emphasized that the joint laboratory will address the pain points of enterprises "daring not to use data and not knowing how to use data" through technical standardization and risk prevention system construction, providing compliance support for scenarios such as smart cities and cross-border e-commerce. In the future, products such as cross-border data blockchain notarization systems and federated learning privacy computing platforms will be developed to connect the technology-industry-market chain and promote the release of data element value.

General Manager Cai Siwei stated that next, network and data security technologies adapted to the current development of cross-border e-commerce business will be developed, and a cross-border data storage supervision platform based on multi-party secure computation will be established. This platform will not only meet the dual requirements of the mainland's Data Security Law and Macau's Personal Data Protection Law but also activate the collaborative innovation of cross-border e-commerce and live broadcast industries in the Greater Bay Area.

Other attendees of the signing ceremony included Chu Chia-Wei , Programme Director of the Bachelor of Computer Science programme of the Faculty of Data Science of CityU, and Kuok Weng Tak , Programme Director of the Master's programme, etc.