Recently, Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm, with its outstanding professional expertise and rich practical experience, successfully won the bid for the “Special Services for Data Property Registration” in the “Legal Advisor Services” procurement project of Guangzhou Data Exchange Center for 2025. This victory indicates that Longan Guangzhou’s professional capabilities in data compliance and data asset management have once again been officially recognized.
This project was publicly bid for by Guangzhou Data Exchange Center, aiming to provide full-process legal support for the data property registration services of Guangzhou Data Exchange Center. The services include daily legal advisor services, the formulation and improvement of relevant institutional documents, compliance guidance and review for data property registration, on-site verification, re-examination guidance and defense, as well as the compilation and interpretation of laws and regulations, legal training, dispute resolution, drafting and review of contracts and legal documents, and on-site legal consultation for enterprises as required by the exchange center.
With its professional advantages in the digital economy and artificial intelligence fields, Longan Guangzhou stood out from among many law firms competing in this project and successfully won the bid.
The service team of Longan Guangzhou in this bid consists of Chen Huan, senior advisor at Longan Guangzhou; Ge Xiangrong, deputy director of the management committee and senior partner; Liu Yanfeng, partner; Huang Cuiyi, partner; Li Qiyao, researcher at the Longan Bay Artificial Intelligence Law Research Center; and Zhang Yunci. The team members possess deep legal expertise and rich practical experience in data compliance, data property registration, data asset accounting, cross-border data transmission, and artificial intelligence. They can provide efficient and professional legal services to Guangzhou Data Exchange Center.
This victory shows the high recognition of Longan Guangzhou’s professional capabilities in data compliance by Guangzhou Data Exchange Center. In the future, Longan Guangzhou lawyers will fully utilize their professional advantages to provide comprehensive legal support for the data property registration services of Guangzhou Data Exchange Center, helping the exchange center achieve high-quality development and contributing to the healthy development of the data economy.
Guangzhou Data Exchange Center
Under the strategic deployment of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Government, with strong support from the Guangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Government, and under the careful guidance of the Guangdong Provincial Government Service and Data Administration Bureau and the Guangzhou Municipal Government Service and Data Administration Bureau, Guangzhou Data Exchange Center was established on September 30, 2022. With its functional orientation of “based in Guangdong, serving the Bay Area, and serving the whole country,” Guangzhou Data Exchange Center seizes the major development opportunities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It builds a full-chain data trading ecosystem, engages deeply in industries, and continuously incubates influential benchmark scenarios, creating a series of innovative platforms.
Source: Website of Guangzhou Data Exchange Center
As a core hub of the Guangdong Province data element market system, Guangzhou Data Exchange Center thoroughly implements the work requirements of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Government, which emphasize “real economy as the foundation and manufacturing as the key.” It adheres to the business philosophy of “credit as the core, quality as the foundation, and ecology as the key.” By going into fields and workshops, it establishes a “one institution, multiple bases, multiple platforms” trading service system that covers all levels and industries. It actively explores practical paths for data elements to enhance the high-quality development of the real economy. Currently, a series of special data products have been developed in 25 industries, including intelligent manufacturing, agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and fisheries, health, transportation, environmental protection, industrial parks, meteorological services, and finance.
Guangzhou Data Exchange Center actively explores the cross-border data flow mechanism in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. It uses the “data special zone” to promote cross-border data flow, develops “Greater Bay Area solutions” for data flow, and pilots the aggregation and development of overseas data. At the same time, it actively promotes the construction of data trading service infrastructure in regions such as Xinjiang and Tibet, contributing to the high-quality development of the digital economy and industries.
Team Introduction
Team Overview:
This team focuses on emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and data compliance. The team members hold relevant certifications such as data security specialists and data compliance advisors. They provide innovative compliance solutions for cross-border data assets, public security big data, and AI products, helping enterprises complete data asset accounting and listing transactions. In addition, through national lectures, participation in industry standard drafting, and obtaining various industry qualifications, the team demonstrates significant professional expertise and industry influence in artificial intelligence and data compliance.
Some Team Achievements:
Special project on personal information collection regulations for a public security agency
Special project on data governance and accounting for a medical company
Special compliance project for a cross-border enterprise WeChat mini-program
Special compliance project for data asset accounting for a “cross-border trend analysis product”
Special compliance project for data asset accounting for a data business
Open platform for legal supervision big data models
Intelligent push of civil judgment documents in similar cases
Special advisor for artificial intelligence in AI social chat software
Compliance consulting project for large-scale generative artificial intelligence models
Lawyer Chen Huan
Lawyer Chen Huan graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies and China University of Political Science and Law. He is currently a senior advisor at Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm, head of the Digital Economy Department, deputy director of the Longan National Compliance Committee, member of the Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, secretary-general of the Data and Digital Economy Committee of the Guangzhou Lawyers Association, director of the Longan Bay Artificial Intelligence Law Research Center, leading talent in foreign-related lawyers in Guangzhou, registered data compliance advisor at Guangzhou Data Exchange Center, and owner of the official account “AI Compliance Circle.” He has written books such as “Essential AI Skills for Lawyers” and “Guide to Using ChatGPT by Lawyers,” and is mainly engaged in special compliance for artificial intelligence, data compliance, data asset accounting, intellectual property rights, computer networks, and other matters.
Lawyer Ge Xiangrong
Lawyer Ge Xiangrong graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law. He is currently deputy director of the management committee and senior partner at Longan Guangzhou. He has long focused on major and complex civil and commercial litigation cases, including corporate law and financial disputes, as well as foreign-related civil litigation. He has solid legal expertise and is skilled in formulating litigation strategies and clarifying legal relationships. Many of the cases he handles have been selected as typical or guiding cases. Ge Xiangrong holds multiple social positions, such as representative of the 10th Guangzhou Lawyers Congress and mediator at the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade/International Chamber of Commerce. He is also listed as a leading talent in foreign-related lawyers in Guangdong Province and Guangzhou, and has been rated as a “new star lawyer in South China” by ALB.
Lawyer Huang Cuiyi
Lawyer Huang Cuiyi graduated from China University of Political Science and Law. He is currently a partner at Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm and deputy head of the Real Estate Department at Longan Guangzhou. Since 2011, he has been a permanent legal advisor for Liuniu Group (a Hong Kong-listed company), providing services to large enterprises and government departments such as Southern Financial Media. He is proficient in civil and commercial litigation and arbitration processes and is committed to providing comprehensive dispute resolution solutions for clients.
Lawyer Liu Yanfeng
Lawyer Liu Yanfeng graduated from Southwest University of Political Science and Law. He is currently a partner at Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm and deputy director and secretary-general of the Research Center for Major and Complex Civil and Commercial Cases at Longan Guangzhou. With over ten years of experience in the legal profession, he has handled more than 800 cases, focusing on resolving major and complex civil and commercial disputes. He has extensive experience in commercial economic disputes, and a case he represented involving a New Third Board company and employees in trade secret infringement was selected as one of the “Top Ten Typical Cases of 2021” by the Guangzhou Intellectual Property Court.
Lawyer Li Qiyao
Lawyer Li Qiyao graduated from South China University of Technology. She is the editor of “Essential AI Skills for Lawyers” and a researcher at the Longan Bay Artificial Intelligence Law Research Center. She is also an expert advisor for the Longan Guangzhou Sanctions and Double Anti Committee, and the owner of the official account “AI Compliance Circle.” She has a certificate in English at the eighth level and is skilled in artificial intelligence, data compliance, intellectual property litigation, non-litigation business, and civil and commercial dispute resolution.
Zhang Yunci
Graduated from Wuhan University, she is an assistant lawyer at Beijing Longan (Guangzhou) Law Firm. She has participated in research projects such as “Risk Research on Online Private Fundraising Platforms” (provincial level), “Criminal Subjects and Criminal Capacity in Strong Artificial Intelligence Crimes,” and “Methadone and Psychedelic Drug Crimes.”