China News Service, Beijing, December 8 (Xu Jing Du Yan) Wang Lei, member of the Party Group and Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology, attended the 24th Beijing-Hong Kong Economic Cooperation Seminar (hereinafter referred to as "Beijing-Hong Kong Fair") ") It was introduced at the 2021 Digital Economy Empowering Industry Development Special Event held on the 7th that Beijing actively promotes international exchanges and cooperation in the digital economy, and uses the construction of digital trade ports and digital customs as the entry point to accelerate the cross-border safe circulation of data and concentrate on building An open and interconnected international data hub.
The goal is that by 2025, the added value of Beijing's digital economy will account for about 50% of GDP.
Since 1997, the Beijing-Hong Kong Fair has been successfully held for 23 sessions.
The cooperation between the two places has gradually expanded from the traditional trade and investment fields to finance, technology and other fields, forming a comprehensive, wide-ranging and high-level cooperation pattern.
At present, the world is accelerating into the digital age, and the digital economy has become a key engine driving economic and social development. New industries, new formats, and new scenarios are constantly emerging, opening up a new space for cooperation between Beijing and Hong Kong.
Create a Beijing model for urban development in the digital age
Wang Lei introduced that Beijing attaches great importance to the development of the digital economy and hopes to create a Beijing model for urban development in the digital age.
At the First Global Digital Economy Conference in August this year, Beijing released the "Beijing's Implementation Plan on Accelerating the Construction of a Global Digital Economy Benchmark City."
Beijing will build a global digital economy benchmark city from the aspects of highlighting digital drive, highlighting the construction of a new economic system, highlighting the leading role of benchmarking, highlighting urban culture and global cooperation.
In terms of highlighting digital drives, Beijing is aiming at the fundamental role of data, a new factor of production, in the digital economy. So far, it has achieved the convergence and integration of 31.7 billion pieces of government data and 106.3 billion pieces of social data, supporting epidemic prevention and control, resumption of work and production, etc. 181 scene applications.
In terms of highlighting the construction of a new economic system, as of the end of September, Beijing had built 47,000 5G base stations, ranking first in the country in terms of the number of base stations per 10,000 people; 1028 kilometers of open test roads for the Internet of Vehicles, and safety test mileage exceeded 3.13 million kilometers.
At the same time, Beijing focuses on scientific and technological innovation and promotes breakthroughs in industrial cutting-edge technologies: organizes 6G future technological routes and potential technological breakthroughs, carries out research on cutting-edge core technologies in the quantum field, and launches Beijing’s first superconducting quantum computing cloud platform, artificial intelligence and blockchain companies. Separated first in the world and the country.
In the first half of this year, the added value of Beijing's digital economy was 818.73 billion yuan, accounting for 42.6% of GDP, and it continued to rank first among all provinces and cities in the country.
In the next step, Beijing will continue to optimize the business environment for the digital economy, accelerate the local legislation of Beijing's digital economy promotion regulations, and strive to build an inclusive, prudent, and win-win digital economy rule system.
In terms of global cooperation, Beijing actively promotes international exchanges and cooperation in the digital economy, strives to build a digital trade demonstration zone, takes the construction of digital trade ports and digital customs as the starting point, accelerates the promotion of cross-border safe circulation of data, and concentrates on building an open and interconnected international data hub .
He talked about the hope that by 2025, the added value of Beijing's digital economy will account for about 50% of GDP.
After 5-10 years of continuous efforts, Beijing has become a business highland leading the global comprehensive economic development, a model highland for urban digital intelligent transformation, and an open highland for foreign cooperation in the digital economy.
Strengthen the connection of innovation resources between Beijing and Hong Kong
Wang Lei said that the industries of Beijing and Hong Kong have a good foundation for cooperation and huge development potential.
In the future, it is hoped that the two places will take the opportunity of the construction of Beijing's "two districts" and the construction of a digital economy benchmark city to deepen cooperation in the following four areas.
The first is to strengthen the formulation of digital economy rules and standards, key technological breakthroughs, scenario demonstration applications, and the cultivation of benchmarking enterprises to promote the development of digital economy industries in the two places and promote the quality and efficiency of high-tech industries in the two places.
The second is to take advantage of the professional services of Hong Kong's international financial center to support more Beijing companies in the digital economy to go public in Hong Kong.
At the same time, it will make use of a series of cross-border investment promotion policies issued by Beijing centering on the construction of the "two districts" to provide good services for Hong Kong-funded enterprises coming to Beijing for development.
The third is to promote the exchange and cooperation of talents in the digital economy, make use of the high-quality and rich higher education resources of the two places, and further strengthen cooperation in the interdisciplinary training, training and use of digital economy talents.
The fourth is to make full use of Beijing’s China International Trade in Services Fair, Zhongguancun Forum, Financial Street Forum, Global Digital Economy Conference, World Robot Conference, World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference, World 5G Conference, World Energy Transition High-level Forum, and Hong Kong’s Electronic components and production technology exhibitions, environmental protection exhibitions and other two key international platforms, strengthen the docking of innovative resources between Beijing and Hong Kong, and carry out key technology and project exchanges and cooperation.
Lin Weiqiao, Director of Information Technology of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, said that with the support of the country's "14th Five-Year Plan" and relevant policies in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Hong Kong will continue to give full play to its unique advantages and strong scientific research capabilities.
He encouraged the industry to integrate into the overall situation of the country's development, and while contributing to the development of the country's innovation and technology, he also opened up more room for the development of Hong Kong's economy.
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