The scale of nearly 5.4 trillion U.S. dollars ranks second in the world
The digital economy has become a new engine for the high-quality development of my country's economy
Our reporter Cui Shuang
"We have estimated that the GDP of 47 countries will fall by 2.8 percentage points in 2020, but the digital economy of these 47 countries has increased by 3 percentage points year-on-year, and the growth rate of the digital economy is nearly 6 percentage points higher than the overall economic growth." 8 On the 2nd, Yu Xiaohui, Dean of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said at the 2021 Global Digital Economy Conference.
As Zhuang Rongwen, deputy minister of the Central Propaganda Department, director of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China, and director of the National Cyberspace Administration of China, said, as the global economy is still in a fragile recovery, the digital economy has become a key move to achieve economic recovery and promote sustainable development. Become a new kinetic energy and new engine that effectively promotes high-quality economic development.
According to the "Global Digital Economy White Paper" released that day, in 2020, 47 countries' digital economy added value reached 32.6 trillion U.S. dollars, a nominal increase of 3.0% year-on-year, accounting for 43.7% of GDP. Industrial digitalization is still the mainstay of the development of digital economy. Engine, accounting for 84.4% of the digital economy.
A reporter from Science and Technology Daily learned from the meeting that in 2020, my country's digital economy will be close to 5.4 trillion U.S. dollars, ranking second in the world; a year-on-year increase of 9.6%, the growth rate ranking first in the world.
Consolidate the foundation and strengthen the core technology research
"A century of change and the epidemic situation of the century are intertwined and superimposed. The world economic development urgently needs to inject new momentum and expand new space. It is of great significance and far-reaching impact to expand and strengthen the digital economy." said Xiao Yaqing, secretary of the party group and minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
He emphasized that we must strengthen the research of core technologies, coordinate the forging of long-boards and make up for the short-boards, build an independent, controllable, safe and reliable information technology system, accelerate research and development breakthroughs and iterative applications in the fields of high-end chips and key basic software, and build high-level industries. Common technology platform, prosperous open source ecology.
Lei Jun, the founder and chairman of Xiaomi Technology, also mentioned technological research. He said that in the past, our society placed too much emphasis on success and failure, and lacked tolerance for innovation and entrepreneurship.
The digital economy is a brand-new development thinking and model. There are a large number of new topics and new methods that need to be explored and studied. This process must not be smooth. It must be formed in the whole society to encourage innovation, technology research and development, and encourage new industries and new forms of testing and tolerance. An atmosphere of frustration.
Lei Jun believes that the foundation of the development of digital technology is the underlying scientific and technological R&D strength and technological innovation capabilities. It is necessary to gradually increase R&D investment, attach importance to basic R&D, and strive to achieve breakthroughs in key and key technical fields.
At the same time, we must also pay attention to the cultivation of innovative talents and attract global talents to come to China to innovate and start businesses.
Realize digital transformation and cultivate sustainable development potential
According to Xiaojuan Changjiang, School of Public Management, Tsinghua University, the development of the digital economy during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period is mainly driven by the rise of the consumer side. Only with extensive global links, data aggregation, and collaborative innovation can there be sustainable development potential.
Wang Wenjing, chairman and CEO of UFIDA, said that becoming a digital enterprise has become a new paradigm for enterprise development today and is the key to supporting enterprise organizational changes and business innovation.
According to Yin Zheng, executive vice president of Schneider Electric and president of China, digitalization is still a weapon for enterprises to achieve the goal of "dual carbon".
He suggested that when companies formulate strategies to deal with climate change, they should combine efficiency enhancement and circular economy, and digitalization is a key element that promotes the combination of the two.
Experience has shown that through the application of digitalization to smart buildings, smart manufacturing and other fields, efficiency can be increased by 30%; the recycling of raw materials can also bring about a 70% increase in efficiency.
In order to further promote the development of the digital economy, Xiao Yaqing said that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of new digital infrastructure, coordinate the promotion of the "dual gigabit" network coordinated development action plan and the 5G application innovation action plan, deploy green and intelligent data and computing facilities, and cultivate the industrial ecology , The development of efficient and coordinated converged infrastructure.
Vigorously promote the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry, in-depth implementation of the "5G + Industrial Internet" innovative development project and intelligent manufacturing project, so that digital technology can better empower small and medium-sized enterprises and fully support industrial upgrading.