From the perspective of Chinese path to modernization, data use is viewed as a model that prioritizes people-centeredness, breaking out from traditional data-centered and governance-for-governance's-sake patterns. This viewpoint centers on people's needs for data use and protection of their rights and interests, empowering governance by regulating data use. This paper offers a new interpretation of data use from the perspective of the Chinese path to modernization, proposing a differential value analytical framework that centers on people. The study finds that pragmatical-level data use progresses along a ladder of data legal governance and availability capability building, data provenance governance and usefulness capability building, data accuracy governance and effectiveness capability building, and data sustainable governance and security capability building. This ladder creates a value chain of "data value creating - data value preserving - data value promoting - data value empowering". By constructing and innovating a modern data use system with considerations of legal scale, business reliability, technical validity, and good governance sympathy, a people-centered basic data use system is established at the planning level, which then fosters a data use panoramic ecosystem based on collaboration, participation, shared benefits and symbiosis. The goal is to create a community of data use in which everyone has responsibilities and is committed to his or her responsibilities and can share the benefits, ultimately empowering the advancement of the Chinese path to modernization, and ensuring that the development fruits of data use modernization can be shared by all and benefit to all our people fairly and inclusively.