[Construction of China’s first international exchange center for earth system data starts] September 10th, according to the China Meteorological Administration, on September 10, China’s first international exchange center for earth system data officially started construction in the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone. On the same day, the China Meteorological Administration, the Macao Special Administrative Region, and the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone signed a joint construction and cooperation framework agreement, clarifying that the Earth System Data International Exchange Center (Macao) will be built in Hengqin with a construction period of three years and an operation period of three years. This move aims to further build and cultivate an ecology for the development and utilization of data elements, build a bridge for earth system data cooperation, create a high-level open platform to the outside world, promote the output of high-quality data products and service capabilities, form a unified market for earth system data elements in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, empower the development of new productive forces such as the digital economy in the cooperation zone and the moderately diversified development of the Macao economy, and contribute China's strength to global data governance and digital development.