China News Service, Beijing, July 24th: Xiyan Dao | China's plan to strengthen, optimize and expand the digital economy
Reporter Li Jinlei
At present, China's digital economy is in full swing.
From 2012 to 2021, the scale of China's digital economy has grown from 11 trillion yuan to 45.5 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world for several consecutive years, becoming an important engine for promoting high-quality economic and social development.
"The rapid development of the digital economy, the wide range of coverage, and the unprecedented degree of influence are unprecedented, and are becoming a key force in reorganizing global factor resources, reshaping the global economic structure, and changing the global competition pattern." On October 18, 2021, President Xi Jinping During the 34th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, the secretary emphasized that we must continue to strengthen and optimize my country's digital economy.
China's digital economy is developing rapidly, but it also faces some problems and challenges.
How to make the digital economy continue to become stronger, better and bigger?
Xi Jinping has made important expositions on the development of the digital economy many times, and has given China's plans.
"The digital economy is related to the overall situation of national development"
The digital economy is the main economic form after the agricultural economy and the industrial economy.
With the vigorous development of technologies such as the Internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, the digital economy continues to stimulate new driving forces for economic and social development, and its importance has become increasingly prominent. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the digital economy has risen to become a national strategy.
"The digital economy is related to the overall situation of national development." Xi Jinping judged that developing the digital economy is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation.
The healthy development of the digital economy is conducive to promoting the construction of a new development pattern, the construction of a modern economic system, and the construction of new national competitive advantages.
"The digital economy has high innovation, strong penetration, and wide coverage. It is not only a new economic growth point, but also a fulcrum for transforming and upgrading traditional industries. It can become an important engine for building a modern economic system." Xi Jinping's important exposition explained The digital economy plays an important role in enabling high-quality economic and social development.
Jin Li, acting vice president of Southern University of Science and Technology, told the reporter from Chinanews.com that making the digital economy stronger, better and bigger is the need for high-quality development, which is more conducive to giving full play to China's comparative advantages.
China is a country with a large population and a large digital economy. It has a huge scale advantage. Based on the domestic super-large domestic demand market, it can achieve economies of scale, thereby reducing research and development costs, improving iteration speed, and achieving corner overtaking.
Zuo Pengfei, deputy director of the Information and Network Economy Research Office of the Institute of Quantitative and Technological Economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told a reporter from Chinanews.com that the digital economy is a new kinetic energy embedded in the traditional economic and social development system, making it stronger, better and bigger. The digital economy has multiple positive meanings, not only helping to promote the construction of a unified national market, but also promoting the digital reconstruction of enterprises and industrial organizations, leading to a series of cutting-edge technological innovations, business model innovations and application scenario innovations, bringing new content to the development of traditional industries. New vitality brings new space and new impetus to emerging industries.
The changes in many figures have witnessed the development achievements of China's digital economy: from 2012 to 2021, the proportion of the digital economy in GDP has increased from 21.6% to 39.8%.
In the past ten years, the number of netizens in my country has increased from 564 million to 1.032 billion, and the Internet penetration rate has increased from 42.1% to 73.0%, ranking first in the world for 13 consecutive years.
The total amount of IPv6 address resources ranks second in the world, and the computing power scale ranks second in the world.
How to solve the problem "big but not strong, fast but not excellent"?
There are achievements and challenges.
Xi Jinping warned: "We have to see that compared with the world's digital economy countries, my country's digital economy is big but not strong, fast but not excellent."
The "14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development" released in January 2022 pointed out that the development of my country's digital economy also faces some problems and challenges: insufficient innovation capabilities in key areas, and the situation that the industrial chain and supply chain are controlled by others has not fundamentally changed; different industries, The digital divide between different regions and groups has not been effectively bridged, and even has a tendency to further expand; the scale of data resources is huge, but the value potential has not been fully released; the digital economy governance system needs to be further improved.
At present, the evolution of the century-old changes is accelerating, the epidemic continues to spread in the century, and China's economic development is facing triple pressures of shrinking demand, supply shocks, and weakening expectations. Against this background, how to promote China's digital economy from large to strong, from fast to excellent?
Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen key core technologies, accelerate the construction of new infrastructure, promote the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy, promote the development of digital industries in key areas, regulate the development of the digital economy, improve the digital economy governance system, and actively participate in international digital economy cooperation.
"We must grasp the 'bull nose' of independent innovation of key digital core technologies", "Adhere to the promotion of development and regulatory norms with both hands, both hands must be rigid, and regulate and develop in the development" "Maintain and improve the multilateral digital economy governance mechanism, Propose a Chinese plan in a timely manner and make a Chinese voice"...
"These important statements by the General Secretary point out the development path and direction of the digital economy." Zuo Pengfei believes that to continuously strengthen, optimize and expand the digital economy, it is necessary to promote the construction of digital infrastructure, consolidate the foundation for the development of the digital economy, and improve the market-oriented allocation of factors. mechanism, accelerate the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, accelerate the transformation of the entire industrial chain by data elements, and improve the digital development level of the industrial chain and supply chain.
Jin Li believes that the key to the development of the digital economy is talents, especially key algorithm talents.
It is necessary not only to attract overseas digital economy elites, but also to step up the cultivation of its own digital talent echelon.
It is necessary to further open up university research institutes, enterprises and government departments, and form a symbiotic ecosystem that fully integrates "official production, education, research and use" to support the development of the digital economy.
Wu Hequan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that the development of the digital economy requires the empowerment of next-generation information technologies such as IPv6, 5G, Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, blockchain and artificial intelligence, and it is also necessary to make good use of these technologies to create safe and reliable infrastructure and application systems.
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