BEIJING - Mr S. Iswaran is on his first official visit to China as Minister for Communications and Information, where he met senior government officials and visited some Chinese companies to get a first-hand update on developments in the tech industry.
He also met Minister Zhuang Rongwen from the Cyberspace Administration of China, said a statement from the Ministry of Communications and Information on Friday. Mr Iswaran told the Chinese officials about Singapore's ongoing 5G public consultation and plan to roll out 5G networks by 2020. They also discussed efforts in safeguarding cyberspace. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Mr Iswaran said while both sides acknowledged the benefits of collecting big data,"we also noted the need for data regulation to build public trust and I shared our ongoing efforts on protecting personal data, such as through the Personal Data Protection Act".