CCTV News (News Network): General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the development of the digital economy is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, and it is the key field of the new round of international competition. The commanding heights of future development.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has deeply implemented the digital economy development strategy. The digital economy has become the most innovative, fastest-growing, and most influential field in my country's economic development, promoting profound changes in production and lifestyle.

　　In the first half of the year, despite the intertwined changes in the world and the epidemic of the century, the recovery of the world economy is difficult, but my country's manufacturing industry has achieved stabilization and recovery, and the leading role of the digital economy has continued to emerge: the numerical control rate of key processes in industrial enterprises above designated size has reached 55.7%. The digital transformation of traditional industries is accelerating. There are more than 3,100 "5G+Industrial Internet" construction projects, industrial Internet is integrated into 45 categories of the national economy, and digital applications are constantly expanding.

　　The digital economy has exploded with unprecedented vitality, which is due to the accurate grasp of the stage characteristics of China's economic development by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and its profound insight into the development trends and laws of the digital economy.

Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

: The general secretary has long-term and in-depth thinking on the development of the digital economy, and he is very keen to grasp the characteristics of the digital age.

The general secretary was working in Fujian at the time, and he proposed to build a "digital Fujian". At that time, everyone did not have a deep understanding of the concept of digital economy.

　　In 2000, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed the construction of "Digital Fujian" when he was working in Fujian. In 2003, when he was working in Zhejiang, he proposed the construction of "Digital Zhejiang", making digitalization and informatization an important engine for realizing leapfrog development of the economy.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has raised the development of the digital economy into a national strategy from the height of coordinating the overall strategy of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the world's unprecedented changes in a century.

He pointed out that 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 competitive advantages for the country.

This has pointed out the way forward and provided fundamental guidelines for the development of China's digital economy.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, major strategic plans such as the "Outline for the Implementation of the Strategy for Strengthening the Internet" and "The Outline for the Development of the Digital Economy" have been issued and implemented.

In the "14th Five-Year Plan", creating new advantages of the digital economy is listed as a chapter.

Accelerate the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and industrial manufacturing is the main battlefield. From promoting the implementation of digital transformation partnership actions, enabling traditional enterprises to digitalize and intelligently upgrade, to implementing intelligent manufacturing engineering, manufacturing digital transformation actions and digital empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises my country has continuously enhanced the resilience and flexibility of the industrial chain and supply chain.

Wang Yiming, Vice Chairman of China International Economic Exchange Center

: The digitalization and intelligence of the industrial Internet manufacturing industry is to improve the production efficiency of our enterprise and enhance the competitiveness of our enterprise, so this means that our manufacturing industry is under increasing external pressure. , is undergoing a new round of transformation and upgrading, and its positive impact and role on the competitiveness of our economy, especially the manufacturing industry, will be further revealed.

　　Over the past decade, the digital economy has continuously empowered small and medium-sized enterprises.

At present, there have been more than 40,000 new, specialized and special-purpose enterprises cultivated across the country, and more than 800 individual champions in manufacturing.

This year, about 3,000 "little giant" enterprises will be newly cultivated.

Innovation in key areas of the manufacturing industry has continued to increase, and a series of measures have made the "bones" of Chinese manufacturing stronger.

　　In the past ten years, the scale of my country's digital economy has grown from 11 trillion yuan to 45.5 trillion yuan, and the proportion of digital economy in GDP has increased from 21.6% to 39.8%.

The scale of my country's digital economy has ranked second in the world for many consecutive years, among which e-commerce transaction volume and mobile payment transaction scale have ranked first in the world, a number of network information companies have ranked among the top in the world, and new technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models are emerging. , to promote the continuous optimization of the economic structure and the significant improvement of economic benefits.

　　Up to now, the number of 5G base stations in my country has reached 1.854 million, and there are more than 420 million 5G mobile phone users. my country has built the world's largest fiber-optic broadband and 5G network.

The construction of intelligent and comprehensive digital information infrastructure that is high-speed ubiquitous, integrated with heaven and earth, cloud-network integration, intelligent and agile, green and low-carbon, safe and controllable continues to accelerate, the new urban infrastructure level is more intelligent, rural network infrastructure, information consumption services more equal.

　　Today, China is deeply implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, and new growth drivers are constantly being stimulated.

The digital economy is increasingly showing huge development potential and infinite innovation vitality, which will surely provide stronger momentum for China to seize the commanding heights in the new round of global industrial competition.