Shanghai, September 2026. Topease (Shanghai Topease Information Technology Co., Ltd.), a trade intelligence company with more than two decades of experience in international trade data, has received a third-prize award in the Commerce and Trade track of the 2026 "Data Factor of Production ×" Competition, Shanghai Regional Competition. The Topease International Trade Data Platform stood out from more than 600 entries for its self-developed data infrastructure and end-to-end data governance.

A Leading Data Competition in Shanghai

Guided by the National Data Administration and jointly organized by the Shanghai Municipal Data Bureau together with more than ten municipal departments, the competition is a leading official event for the data factor market in Shanghai.

Its structure and process underline that standing. The competition runs 17 industry tracks plus 3 specialized tracks covering more than 20 core industries, and every entry passes through a strict qualification review in the preliminary round before a professional project roadshow in the final round, with first, second, and third prizes awarded by scientific proportion. The field brings together central state-owned enterprises, listed companies, industry leaders, and top research institutions across Shanghai; recognized names such as China Electrical Equipment, Shanghai Construction Group, Guotai Haitong Securities, and Bank of Communications were among the winners in tracks including industrial manufacturing, financial services, and urban operations.

In the Commerce and Trade track, Topease was recognized alongside leading companies including Shanghai Yigong International, Lianhua Supermarket, Tuhu, COSCO Shipping Technology, and Shanghai Kaijie E-commerce, a lineup that reflects the competitive caliber of the field.

Why the Award Matters

The competition builds on China's "Data Factor of Production ×" Three-Year Action Plan (2024–2026), which positions data as a factor of production alongside land, labor, capital, and technology. The initiative encourages high-quality data supply, compliant data circulation, and the use of industry data to train sector-specific AI models. As the plan enters its closing year, the award signals that Topease's approach to trade data governance is aligned with a national policy direction that is now translating into commercial value.

What the award recognizes

The Topease International Trade Data Platform is built on the TEDAM data governance system, a self-developed framework spanning collection, cleansing, standardization, storage, computation, and application. Key published capabilities include:

• A compliant trade database covering 232 countries and regions, with more than 11 billion trade records compiled from six major source categories.
• Cross-verification of core import and export transactions through both bills of lading and customs declarations, so records can be traced and audited.
• Measured data-quality outcomes, including a core data-quality score above 96, automated cleansing above 95%, company-name normalization above 96%, and product-name normalization above 92%.
• Dual security certification through Classified Protection Level 2 (MLPS 2.0) and ISO 27001 information security management.

By the Numbers

From Data Governance to Business Workflow

The platform connects its data foundation to three product areas that support the full export workflow. Global Trade Pal provides market, buyer, and supply-chain intelligence; Tesour supports contact discovery and outreach; and GTminds applies trade-domain AI across search, analysis, recommendations, and content workflows, with CRM retaining the resulting lead and customer history. The company has served more than 50,000 foreign-trade enterprises, helping teams move from market research to qualified buyer lists, multi-round outreach, and customer management in one environment.