China News Service, Beijing, April 30 (Reporter Sun Zifa) The parallel meeting of the BRICS Big Data Forum on Sustainable Development "Big Data Supports the Digital Economy" was held online recently. Academician Wu Hequan, former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and communication expert, During the "cloud" exchange, it was suggested that BRICS countries should seize the development opportunities brought about by the new industrial revolution and digital service trade, and work together to build a "digital BRICS".
He believes that in the era of digital economy, data has become a factor of production and is playing an increasingly important role in the improvement of total factor productivity.
In this context, the development and application of technologies such as data science, artificial intelligence, 5G, Internet of Things, and cloud computing are the key directions for the development of digital technologies and their economic applications in BRICS countries.
Wu Hequan said that under the influence of the epidemic, the proportion of global digital service trade in service trade has risen against the trend. BRICS countries should seize the development opportunities brought about by the new industrial revolution and digital service trade, and strengthen cross-border data flow and electronic transmission. Cooperate with research on digital tax, digital intellectual property protection, non-discriminatory treatment of digital products, digital platform responsibility, etc., and work together to build a "digital BRICS".
The parallel conference on "Big Data Supports Digital Economy" is jointly organized by the Digital Economy Research Center jointly established by China Association for Science and Technology, Tianjin Municipal Government, and Nankai University, and the China Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations. The chairman of the Digital Economy Center and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations China The chairman of the committee, Professor Gong Ke, and Professor Virgilio Almeida of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil co-chaired the forum. Academician Wu Hequan and other representatives of 8 experts and scholars from China, Brazil, Russia, India and the United Nations Trade and Development Organization delivered speeches at the meeting. Conduct a seminar.
Chen Rui, Secretary General of the China Committee of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Communication Center of the China Association for Science and Technology, pointed out that at present, the digital economy is becoming a key force in reorganizing global factor resources and changing the global competition pattern. Various organizations such as the World Federation of Engineering Organizations China Committee, the Digital Economy Research Center, and the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Digital Economy Alliance have been established to build a national science and technology communication center. A series of work has been carried out around the digital economy. In the future, big data will be applied in the engineering field to strengthen the economic support and make positive contributions to the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Gong Ke concluded that in the parallel meeting of the BRICS Big Data Forum on Sustainable Development "Big Data Supports the Digital Economy", the experts gave insightful speeches from different perspectives, and there was a common voice, which is to strengthen the BRICS countries. Cooperate in the field of digital economy to accelerate the sustainable development of BRICS countries and the world.
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