(Shudu Shanghai) Shanghai should be the smart "brain" for the development of China's digital economy
China Singapore Finance and Economics, January 7th, title: Shanghai should be the smart "brain" for China's digital economy development-an interview with Wang Zhen, deputy dean of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Institute of Information Technology
Author Fan Zhonghua Gao Zhimiao
From 2020, the first to promote the development of online new economy in 12 major areas during the epidemic in 2020, inject strong impetus to boost the economy, and target the international digital capital by 2021, release a three-year action plan for economic digital transformation, and continue to contribute to the post-epidemic economy The recovery has created a new engine, and the digital economy is building a key growth pole for Shanghai's urban development.
"A new crown epidemic has accelerated the conversion of new and old momentum, and also accelerated Shanghai's systematic recognition and construction of the digital economy. Digital industrialization and industrial digitization will continue to nurture new industries, formats and models, and become an epidemic. "An important new momentum for post-economic development," said Wang Zhen, deputy dean of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and director of the Institute of Information Technology, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com. In the past year, Shanghai has formed a Many innovative breakthroughs have laid the foundation for the realization of Shanghai's goal of over 60% of GDP in the digital economy during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
"2022 will be the year of power for Shanghai's digital transformation," Wang Zhen said. At the moment when the digital industry is deployed globally, although China's digital economy ranks second in the world, compared with the number one U.S. There is still a big gap in infrastructure and digital innovation.
As a hub for global resource allocation, Shanghai has many advantages and should take the lead in advancing digital transformation with greater efforts.
The digital finance exhibition area of the Digital Economy Experience Hall in Changning District, Shanghai, introduces the history of currency and the past and present of the digital renminbi through multimedia interactive videos. Photo by Fan Zhonghua
"Digital transformation is a systematic project. This is first manifested in the digital economy is an emerging economy with a high degree of integration of an innovative economy and an open economy. Among them, how to flow more and more effectively is a major challenge, which not only involves Personal privacy protection also involves how to protect national data security in cross-border digital trade. We need to actively explore and practice to stimulate the momentum of data resources on the basis of security protection, so that data in various sub-fields can flow around the world. , Creating new advantages for the economic development of Shanghai and our country." Wang Zhen said.
He pointed out that the establishment of a data exchange in Shanghai is a first step in this exploration; the Lingang New Area of the Free Trade Zone has undertaken the important task of innovative breakthroughs in cross-border data flow.
"How to make the government, state-owned enterprises, public institutions, etc. realize data security and disclosure, how to achieve a balance between the effectiveness and security of market data, how to promote more countries and multinational enterprises to join the digital trade, for each other's economic development and technology Shanghai’s wisdom is needed to improve services and so on."
In addition, Wang Zhen pointed out that the core of competition in the digital economy is technology, and Shanghai’s advantage lies in its strong concentration of high-end innovation resources. It can release more innovation dividends while taking on the important tasks of science and technology innovation.
On the one hand, the digital industry involves many fields such as the Industrial Internet, integrated circuits, and artificial intelligence. Technologies are intersected, correlated, and support each other. Therefore, various fields must be systematically promoted.
Shanghai has a solid industrial foundation, talent concentration and first-mover advantage in leading industries, which can provide a good ecology for the development of the digital economy.
On the other hand, Shanghai has the most and richest application scenarios in the country, from industry to service industry, from life to governance, "collecting and optimizing big data through scenarios, making it truly iterative and upgrading of various industries and more scenarios. Derived and extended resource endowments,” Wang Zhen said. In response to digital transformation, Shanghai proposed to build 200 benchmark smart factories, 100 benchmarking scenarios for digital transformation of life, and 50 digital transformation demonstration hospitals. Demand, form experience and model, copy and apply it in more fields, and form a larger market space for the digital industry.
Smart factory in Minhang District, Shanghai. Photo courtesy of Minhang District
In addition, Shanghai has a relatively mature capital market and venture capital environment, which can gather social forces to foster the development of digital industries.
However, Wang Zhen also pointed out that as a technology-led systematic project, the digital industry will form a more complex industrial chain. Therefore, the importance of leading companies in each segment will be very obvious.
"In the next step, Shanghai should take the lead in the industry's leading companies, through key core technology research, drive the entire industrial chain, and combine the power of the industrial ecology," Wang Zhen said. "The formation of digital industrial clusters does not rely on universities, The power of scientific research institutes and the government can achieve."
Therefore, Wang Zhen suggested that Shanghai should focus on building a top enterprise ecosystem, pooling strengths, and providing top companies with policy support for attracting talents and integrating innovation chains. Not only should they "bring in", but also local companies should "grow". .
"The'Tesla model' has been well verified in Shanghai, which has led to the aggregation and formation of the industrial chain. This kind of efficient business environment should be promoted more widely."
As a city taking the lead in digital transformation, what lessons can the development of Shanghai's digital economy bring to other regions?
"Shanghai, as the most economically developed city in the country, has the conditions to create a large number of diversified application scenarios, drive industrial development on the demand side, provide market space for innovative technologies and enterprises, and enable them to grow, mature, and out of Shanghai." Wang Zhen said.
At the same time, digital application scenarios such as epidemic prevention and control, low-carbon energy saving, industrial interconnection, smart factories, and green agriculture can be extended to the whole country according to local conditions, while Shanghai is exploring all aspects of digital transformation experience and practices, innovative technologies, institutional reforms, and digital adaptation. The systemic ecological construction of industrial growth, etc., can also be used as a reference for all parts of the country.
"Shanghai is an open city, standing at the forefront of the world, Shanghai is more forward-looking and predictive of the development direction of the times," Wang Zhen said, "Shanghai can play a role in the development of China's digital industry. The role of the brain." (End)