Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, August 4th, by wire Topic: Creating New Competitive Advantages and Building Future “New Benchmarks”-Observations from the First Global Digital Economy Conference
Xinhua News Agency reporters Li Dexin, Guo Yujing, Chen Xu
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the global economic recovery is weak, and the digital economy has become a new driving force for global economic growth. Data from the 2021 Global Digital Economy Conference show that in 2020 the total digital economy of 47 countries in the world will reach 32.6 trillion US dollars, a nominal increase of 3.0% year-on-year, accounting for 43.7% of GDP; my country’s digital economy will grow at a rate of 9.6%, Ranked first in the world. Representatives from government departments, global scientific research institutions, well-known enterprises, experts and scholars have heatedly discussed that the digital economy has become a new engine for the country’s economic development, and the next step will create more space for the development of the digital economy.
Digital Economy: New Coordinates for Digital Development
On the 2nd, the 2021 Global Digital Economy Conference opened in Beijing. A mobile experimental vehicle named “Flash Test Cabin” appeared on the east side of Beijing National Convention Center. It was responsible for the rapid nucleic acid detection of participants at the conference to ensure the safety of epidemic prevention. . With the support of advanced digital technology, dozens of mobile experimental vehicles with “integrated acquisition and inspection” are now sticking to key hospitals and transportation hubs to help the orderly operation of production and life.
In the exhibition hall of the first Global Digital Economy Conference, a series of new applications supported by digital technology, such as “flash test shelter”, intelligent inspection, remote diagnosis, 5G smart factory, etc., are dizzying, and they have built a new life in the future. Scenes.
Zhuang Rongwen, director of the National Internet Information Office, said that the current new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reforms are advancing by leaps and bounds, which is driving economic development to a new stage of digital economy. With the global economy still in a fragile recovery, the digital economy has become the key to achieving economic recovery and promoting sustainable development, and has become a new kinetic energy and new engine that effectively promotes high-quality economic development.
At the meeting, the “Global Digital Economy White Paper” issued by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology showed that in 2020, the total digital economy of 47 countries in the world will reach 32.6 trillion US dollars, a nominal increase of 3.0% year-on-year, and a proportion of 43.7% of GDP. The scale of China’s digital economy is 5.4 trillion U.S. dollars, ranking second in the world; a year-on-year increase of 9.6%, the growth rate ranking first in the world.
In my country, the digital economy has become a new engine driving economic development, and the industrial foundation has been further consolidated. Xiao Yaqing, Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that my country has built the world‘s largest optical fiber and 4G and 5G mobile broadband networks. The number of 5G terminal connections has exceeded 365 million, and 5G application scenarios have become increasingly abundant. Digital transformation has been accelerated in an all-round way, and the development environment has continued to be optimized.
“Currently is the historical intersection of a new generation of information technology and the digital transformation of my country’s economy and society.” Wu Hequan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, believes that the digital economy meets the needs of my country’s high-quality development, while labor, land, capital and other production factors continue to play a role. As a new factor of production, data is promoting productivity growth and the optimization of economic structure.
The second phase of the Xiaomi Smart Factory, which was just completed in Beijing in July, has a fully intelligent production line. Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi, said that the development of the digital economy has shown strong vitality. In the next ten years, the digital economy will become the core new driving force for development, which will further promote the full rise of Chinese companies in the global market.
Digital governance: anchoring the new direction of digital benchmarking
Xiao Yaqing said that in the face of the complex and changeable economic development environment, the world‘s economic development urgently needs to inject new momentum, expand new space, and make the digital economy bigger and stronger, with great significance and far-reaching impact.
At the conference, Beijing issued the “Beijing City’s Implementation Plan for Accelerating the Construction of a Global Digital Economy Benchmark City”, drawing a “new blueprint” for a digital economy benchmark city. From the “Electronic Street” in Zhongguancun in 1984, Internet companies such as Sohu, Baidu, Sina, and Yinghaiwei emerged, and in 2021, it was the first in the world to propose to build a benchmark city for the digital economy. .
Wang Lei, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economic and Information Technology, said that the implementation plan will strengthen the construction of digital city infrastructure, promote digital technology innovation around data assets, open up the entire chain of data generation-convergence-transaction-consumption-application, and foster a data-driven future industry. Digital economy rules and development measurement system form an open and leading new digital social ecology.
In 2020, the added value of Beijing’s digital economy exceeded 1.44 trillion yuan, accounting for 40% of the total economy. The person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee said that Beijing is building a pilot free trade zone with a digital economy as its main feature, which has injected strong impetus into the development of the digital economy. Facing the future, Beijing will build on its own resource endowment, adhere to the international first-class standards, and actively build a “Beijing model” for the development of China’s digital economy.
Digital transformation is no longer a “multiple choice”, but a “compulsory course” related to the survival and long-term development of various industries.
Xiaojuan Changjiang, School of Public Management, Tsinghua University, believes that if the digital economy is mainly focused on consumer platforms during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, digitalization and intelligence on the production side will become an important new growth point during the 14th Five-Year Plan period.
Since the beginning of this year, Beijing has released the “Changan Chain”, the country’s first self-controllable blockchain software and hardware technology system, to ensure data security and form more than 200 application scenarios such as the “food safety chain” and electronic seals. “To promote the deep integration of the digital world and traditional physical space, there is an urgent need for technology and model innovation to support the development of the digital economy.” One of the initiators of the “Chang’an Chain” and the executive vice president of Beijing Microchip Blockchain and Edge Computing Research Institute Ren Changrui said.
Xiao Yaqing said that it will further stimulate market vitality and vigorously promote the digital transformation of manufacturing. Deepen the implementation of “5G + Industrial Internet”, set a batch of application benchmarks, form a batch of solutions, and build a batch of industrial clusters. Through the implementation of intelligent manufacturing engineering, the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry will be carried out, so that digital can better empower enterprises and fully support industrial upgrading.
While the digital economy is booming, issues such as platform monopoly, cross-border data flow, personal information protection, and ownership of data assets have become increasingly prominent, and global digital economic governance is facing challenges.
The Chinese plan for digital governance is escorting the development of the digital economy. Zhuang Rongwen said that we must adhere to both development and security, encourage and regulate at the same time, accelerate the introduction of personal information protection, data security management and other laws and regulations, improve network security protection capabilities, promote fair competition, oppose monopoly, prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, and promote the real economy Sustainable and healthy development.
Digital Benefits for the People: A New Scene of Prosperous Digital Life
At the end of July, the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone Promotion Working Group announced that the country’s first autonomous driving high-speed test scenario was officially opened in the Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Policy Pilot Zone, which means that the development of unmanned driving is “on the high-speed” in China. .
Jiang Guangzhi, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, said that not only the new generation of digital travel, the new generation of digital health services, intelligent knowledge services, digital finance and other six major industries, as data-driven future benchmark industries, are expected to take the lead in the country and the world.
With the rapid rise of the digital economy, a number of new scenarios, new technologies, and new models have emerged.
On the eve of the opening of the Global Digital Economy Conference, 22 digital economy scene locations including Shougang Park, 11 digital economy internet celebrity check-in locations, and 12 information consumption experience centers were open to the public, bringing a “touch and touch” digital experience .
Entering the International Innovation Hall in Shougang Park, Shijingshan District, the original storage silo becomes a cultural heritage-themed digital pavilion, telling the story of the central axis of Beijing. “Through global imaging, numerical control sound field, XR and other technologies, the former industrial silo has been transformed into a space-time cabin, attracting a large number of visitors to buy tickets to visit.” said Jin Yan, a staff member of the International Creative Museum.
Located in the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee Park in Shougang Park, digital RMB is widely deployed in innovative application scenarios such as unmanned vans, self-service vending machines, and unmanned supermarkets. In the future, the digital renminbi will also be “tested” by athletes, coaches, referees and tourists from overseas.
Fan Yifei, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, said that technological innovation represented by the digital economy has become an important driving force for the development of growth momentum. To achieve high-quality development in China’s economy and society, it is objectively necessary for a new type of retail that is safer, more versatile and inclusive. Payment infrastructure as a public product.
Cross the digital divide and build a digital bridge. The conference also set up a branch venue in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, thousands of kilometers away. Lhasa Mayor Guoguo said that in recent years, Lhasa has vigorously promoted digital industrialization and industrial digitization. From the Qiangtang grassland to the Lhasa River, Internet applications have flown into the homes of ordinary people on the plateau, sharing bicycles, ordering food and online shopping. And so on have become the daily standard of life on the plateau.
The “14th Five-Year Plan” and the 2035 long-term goal outline proposes to adapt to the full integration of digital technology into social interactions and new trends in daily life, to promote innovation in public services and social operations, and to build a digital life for all.
Benefiting the people for the people is the original intention of the development of the digital economy.
Zhuang Rongwen said that it is necessary to accelerate the improvement of the governance level in the fields of education, health, elderly care, and community management, actively explore the operation mode of the intelligent society, create a batch of demonstrations and models of intelligent social governance, and effectively improve the sense of gain and happiness of the people. Sense and security. (Participating in writing: Zhao Xu, Li Chunyu, Gu Zhaowei)
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