(Observation of the Two Sessions) Let the "elephant dance", how does China deal with the "must answer" of the integration of data and reality?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, March 6th (Reporter Xia Bin) Manufacturing industry has become "smart" manufacturing industry, heavy industry has become "light" industry, and digital technology is promoting the flexible transformation of the real economy, staged an "elephant dance".

The integration of digital and real data has become a hot spot in the National Two Sessions in recent years. The 2022 government work report proposes that the integration of digital technology and the real economy has accelerated in the past year, and this year, the digital transformation of the industry will be promoted.

　　In Liugang Group's cold-rolling plant, all steel coils have a QR code, which can be scanned to form information flow control when entering the warehouse, replacing manual copying and comparison; Luthai Group, which has been deeply involved in the garment industry for 35 years, On the rhino intelligent manufacturing platform, the order production cycle of T-shirts, sweaters and other categories has been shortened by more than half, and the "flexible" supply capacity has been improved; JA Solar's production line is no longer relying on people to communicate, and the DingTalk on the mobile phone automatically pushes, The system "runs errands" to accurately find maintenance engineers... These are the "new generation" after the integration of digital technology and the real economy.

　　The "14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development" issued at the beginning of this year proposes that by 2025, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy will account for 10% of GDP, and the integration of digital technology and the real economy has achieved remarkable results.

Data map: In a smart workshop of an enterprise, the robot is working according to the established procedures.

Photo by Gao Zhan

　　Faced with the "must-answer questions" for the integration of data and reality, what are the "tips" for the representatives participating in the National Two Sessions?

　　Fusion requires thinking twice.

Qin Rongsheng, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and dean of the Beijing National Accounting Institute, posed a question: "What is the purpose of digital transformation?" In his view, many companies are responding to the government's call for digital transformation, but it is not clear how.

"The integration of digital and real must have a clear path direction, that is, the integration development should meet market demand as the starting point."

　　Qin Rongsheng said that in the industrial era, companies designed and produced their own products and sold them to customers. In the digital economy era, they must be reversed, and they must first understand the market demand in order to accurately design and produce products.

　　In addition, cost reduction should also be the main starting point for the integration of data and reality.

"Digital transformation requires investment, but the transformation is to reduce costs. It is necessary to calculate the 'big ledger' of the entire operation and production after the transformation. If the cost cannot be reduced, the promotion of integration will be greatly reduced."

　　Liu Shijin, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, pointed out that the digital transformation of the real economy should be from consumption to production, from circulation to manufacturing.

If the digitization of consumption and circulation is the prelude, then the digitization of production is the big play, which can substantially improve the quality, efficiency and sustainability of the real economy.

　　Integration requires core technical support.

Globally, China's digital economy has indeed established some advantages, especially when it comes to applications, but the core technologies needed to integrate with the real economy still need to be tackled.

　　Wang Yiming, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of the China International Economic Exchange Center, said that the integration of data and reality should aim at strategic forward-looking such as sensors, quantum information, network communications, integrated circuits, key software, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and new materials. We will strengthen key and core technology research, ultimately improve independent supply capabilities, and enhance the resilience and competitiveness of the industrial chain.

　　Huang Juhua, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice chairman of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the Democratic League, also suggested that more investment should be made to integrate industrial guidance funds in 5G, industrial Internet, Internet of Things, and technological innovation.

　　Integration requires policy mechanisms to "escort".

The road to digital transformation of traditional enterprises is not smooth, and requires sufficient courage and determination, and may encounter greater risks and challenges in the process.

　　"At this time, policy support is needed." Zhou Yanli, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and former vice chairman of the China Insurance Regulatory Commission, said that digital investment in particular requires financial support. Whether it can be included in the scope of fiscal and tax policy support also requires the state to build a suitable policy framework to help. Market players get better development opportunities.

　　In addition to policy assistance, "barriers" must still be broken.

As the most basic element in digital transformation, the co-construction and sharing of data and information resources still has "gap".

Huang Juhua suggested establishing a data open and sharing security management system, making overall planning and intensive construction, eliminating technical barriers, and building a data exchange platform, so that the classification, collection, exchange and sharing of data from different departments become the general trend and collective consensus, and solve the "stumbling block of data islands" ".

　　Qin Rongsheng believes that the government should encourage and support market entities to carry out data collection in compliance with laws and regulations, focusing on data labeling, cleaning, desensitization, declassification, aggregation, analysis and other links, while accelerating the construction of market rules for data elements, cultivating market entities, improving Governance system to promote the market circulation of data elements.

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