Abstract: Digital transformation offers significant opportunities for the development of the economy and society while also presenting numerous challenges. Issues such as the source of data, continuous supply, cultivation of core data capabilities, and the urgent need to explore data production scenarios and technologies await discussion. By discussing the concept, structure, characteristics, scenarios, and technologies of data production, we hope to draw the attention of both the theoretical and practical sectors to the new business forms of data production, promote the development of new productive forces such as digitalization, intelligentization, and wisdomization, and serve the modernization of China’s digital transformation and governance capabilities.

Key words: Data production, Data products, Data formats, Production scenarios, Production technologies, New quality productive forces