China News Agency, Beijing, September 25th: Small screen changes the big era, the mobile Internet reconstructs the lives of Chinese people

　　China News Agency reporter Ma Xueling Yuan Xiuyue

　　"If I accidentally leave this world one day, what will I do with these accounts?"

　　Worried that the online accounts he had run for many years would not be properly handled, a young self-media blogger in Shanghai, China made a will for his digital legacy.

In this will, another "she" is recorded - a digital existence.

　　More than 1,000 kilometers away in Shaanxi, Cui Shuxia, an 80-year-old old woman, is facing the screen and selling the big red apricots in her hometown in dialect: "This apricot is delicious, er (I) will give you a bite, er (I) have no teeth, It was delicious."

　　In three days, she attracted thousands of fans and helped sell red apricots in her hometown of more than 10,000 yuan every day. People called her "Internet celebrity grandma".

　　Behind the "reverse age" operation of one young and one old is today's China, which has been changed by the mobile Internet.

　　What has the mobile Internet changed in China?

You can start with a QR code.

　　Receipt code, payment code, bus code, order code... Countless ordinary people have entered the world of mobile Internet from the two-dimensional code, and also opened the door to the era of China's digital economy.

 The data picture shows customers walking past a giant QR code in a shopping mall in Beijing.

Photo by Fan Jiashan issued by China News Agency

　　In the past ten years, the number of mobile Internet users in China has grown by more than 600 million, and the mobile Internet continues to demonstrate the power to change reality.

Various APPs such as e-commerce, social networking, games, mobile payment, and information have emerged, and the Internet entrepreneurship boom has swept the country. By the end of 2021, the number of Internet-listed companies in China and abroad has jumped to 155.

The comments pointed out that the huge number of netizens constituted China's booming consumer market and laid a solid user base for the development of the digital economy.

　　According to the "Blue Book on Digital Economy" released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, from 2010 to 2015, the average annual growth rate of China's digital economy was 11.2%, and from 2015 to 2020, it reached 10.1%.

China's digital economy has become an important engine of economic growth.

The Blue Book predicts that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's digital economy will continue its rapid growth momentum, with an average annual nominal growth rate of 11.3% for the overall digital economy.

　　Chinese people's life has been reconstructed in the era of mobile Internet, and dining, travel, shopping, and medical treatment have all been transferred to the Internet.

Cultural and entertainment methods, fashion concepts and consumption concepts also change with the trend of the Internet.

　　In the wave of mobile Internet, the way of social communication has changed dramatically.

Many young people are accustomed to using the Internet to find friends and interact with groups and society.

Silver-haired groups like Cui Shuxia have also become a new "traffic pool" of the mobile Internet from the edge of digital technology. Short videos and live broadcasts have become new social methods for the elderly.

The data picture shows that on September 9, 2022, Xiamen, Fujian, participants experienced the Metaverse live broadcast at the "CIFIT".

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Bin

　　Some unique online cultures have emerged, and online buzzwords and emoticons have become indispensable tools for young people's daily communication.

As true "Internet natives", China's new generation has its own discourse system.

They have a wide range of interests, are full of enthusiasm, advocate individual expression, and love traditional culture.

They are assertive and not blind, embracing others and believing in themselves.

　　Whether it is Li Ziqi, who made the pastoral dream go global, or Lv Xiaojun, the weightlifting champion with many fans, or Su Yiming and Xu Mengtao in the Winter Olympics, they represent the perspective of a new generation of young Chinese.

The data picture shows that on February 14th, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics freestyle skiing women's aerial skills final was held in Zhangjiakou. Xu Mengtao celebrated her victory.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

　　Mobile Internet has not only changed China in reality, but also changed China in the eyes of the world.

　　Nineteen years ago, when Liang Manyu, the editor-in-chief of Greece's "Xihua Times", first went abroad, a foreign friend asked her, "Do you Chinese have a TV in your home?" This made her laugh with laughter.

　　Nowadays, many Greek friends use mobile phones made in China and shop on cross-border e-commerce platforms built by Chinese companies. The topics of concern to the Greek people have become China's economy, technology and culture.

　　In the past ten years, Chinese Internet companies and their mobile Internet application products have become a new business card for "Made in China".

　　Many Chinese applications have a large number of users in overseas markets, and have taken root overseas to develop Internet application models suitable for local areas.

Through the mobile Internet, Chinese cultural content is also showing more and more influence. Chinese online literature, Hanfu culture, and online games have "going overseas" one after another, narrowing the distance between Chinese and foreign young people.

　　"Overseas fans are not only curious about how fast China is developing, they are more concerned about the way of life of ordinary people - Chinese delivery boys, couriers, farmers, and even Li Ziqi." President and co-founder of the Crooked Nut Research Association Gao Yousi said.

　　Foreign internet celebrities like Gao Yousi are not uncommon on China's mobile internet and have even become a phenomenon.

Some people ridiculed that today's Chinese Internet is full of "foreigners".

More and more interactions and collisions between foreign internet celebrities and Chinese fans are breaking the cultural "dimension wall" between them.

The data picture shows Gao Yousi (first from the left in the back row), president and co-founder of the Crooked Nut Research Association, hosting a tasting event in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency Jin Shuo

　　Small screens have changed the era, and the mobile Internet has changed people's lives by connecting everything and circulating information, and profoundly affecting the process of social development.

However, the series of secondary negative problems it brings cannot be ignored and are worthy of reflection.

　　Data gaps, algorithm traps, information cocoons, social distancing, lack of attention, privacy leaks, telecommunication network frauds... When people embrace digital life, they have to face these problems head-on.

　　Last year, China enacted the Personal Information Protection Law, and recently passed the Anti-Telecom and Network Fraud Law.

At present, legislative actions in the field of digital economy are frequent in various parts of China, and legislative plans at the national level are also on the agenda.

The data picture shows that on August 20, 2021, the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress voted to pass the "Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China".

On the same day, a man checked his mobile phone on the streets of Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

　　China, which is accelerating its transformation to digitalization, is making every effort to drive industrial development, while also striving to tame "data" with the rule of law and promote technological development to "remove evil and turn to good."

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