High quality development of digital economy helps Chinese path to modernization China | China | digital economy
[Special research: accelerate the development of digital economy and promote Chinese path to modernization]
Author: Wang Fei
In 2022, the scale of China's digital economy reached 50.2 trillion yuan, accounting for 41.5% of GDP, with a nominal growth rate of 10.3%, which has been higher than GDP growth rate for 11 consecutive years; China has built the world's largest and technologically advanced digital infrastructure, with a total computing power ranking second in the world; The construction of a digital government has achieved remarkable results, and international cooperation in digital technology continues to deepen. Promoting high-quality development of the digital economy has become a national strategy.
Digital technology endows economic development with new connotations
Throughout the history of world development, every industrial and technological revolution has had a huge and profound impact on human production and life. Currently, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has brought another leap in productivity development, with digital technology driving global technological revolution and industrial transformation, and endowing economic development with new connotations.
Data has become a new key production factor, following labor, land, capital, and technology, and is a fundamental strategic resource for the country. On the one hand, data can be annotated, recorded, stored, and linked to the world, and all information about human activities is presented in the form of data. On the other hand, integrating data elements into production, distribution, circulation, consumption and other links can optimize the configuration and combination of various production factors, improve total factor productivity, and have a magnifying, overlapping, and doubling effect on economic development.
Digital technology has become an important engine for liberating and developing productivity, and computing power has become a new form of productivity. The rapid development of the Internet of Things, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and industrial Internet has accelerated the transformation of economic globalization to digital, networked, and intelligent. As a product of informatization, digital technology can promote the rapid flow of various resource elements, accelerate the integration of various market entities, help market entities reconstruct organizational models, achieve cross-border development, break through time and space constraints, and extend industrial chains. Digital production has promoted a high degree of integration of industrialization, automation, informatization, and intelligence, greatly improving the efficiency of socialized large-scale production.
The digital economy is conducive to promoting consultation and construction, and achieving shared development. The digital economy has the functions of creating wealth and sharing benefits, and is a new type of economic form that can promote a more unified efficiency and fairness. The digital economy has high innovation, strong penetration, and wide coverage. In the digital economy, everyone is a producer, user, and beneficiary of data, emphasizing the full realization of the value of data elements, accelerating the transformation of social production methods, and promoting all participants to share the dividends of digital economy development.
Digital economy plays an important role in promoting Chinese path to modernization
Chinese path to modernization not only has the common characteristics of modernization in all countries, but also has Chinese characteristics based on its own national conditions. At present, digital technology has been deeply integrated into all fields and the whole process of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization construction. China's digital economy has entered a rapid growth stage of collaborative innovation, deepening application, standardized development, and inclusive sharing. The development orientation and practice path of digital economy meet the connotation requirements of Chinese path to modernization. Accelerating the development of the digital economy will help push forward Chinese path to modernization.
The data advantage of more than 1.4 billion people forms the comparative advantage of promoting Chinese path to modernization with a huge population. Compared to developed countries that have already completed industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, China has achieved synchronous development of the "new four modernizations" through digital penetration and promotion of new industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization. Vigorously developing the digital economy can effectively transform the potential scale advantage of China's huge population and super market into the advantage of massive data and rich application scenarios, thus forming a significant comparative advantage in promoting the process of Chinese path to modernization with a huge population.
The inclusive nature of the digital economy meets the requirements of the goal of common prosperity. The Chinese path to modernization adheres to the development thought of taking the people as the center, insists that development is for the people, development depends on the people, and development achievements are shared by the people. Developing the digital economy not only involves data itself as a new type of production factor in distribution, but also enables various market entities to effectively reduce costs, improve efficiency, and achieve value co creation and benefit sharing through factor collaboration, data collaboration, and business collaboration. Therefore, developing the digital economy helps to bridge regional, urban-rural, and income disparities, achieve digital benefits and convenience, and improve the sense of gain, happiness, and security of billions of people.
Developing the digital economy not only creates material wealth, but also spiritual wealth. Digital language, like written language, has the function of inheriting culture and promoting civilization progress. The prosperity of the digital cultural industry is an important strategic deployment for inheriting and developing excellent traditional Chinese culture, and an important measure to continuously meet the growing needs of the people for a better life and promote comprehensive human development. On the one hand, implement the strategy of cultural digitalization to record, edit and store the wisdom crystallization and essence of Chinese civilization in digital form; On the other hand, the development of the digital cultural industry must adhere to the requirements of shaping and shaping the soul, and contribute to the construction of a socialist cultural power.
The digital economy is an important support for green development. The deep integration of digital economy and green development has innovatively formed a development concept and model of "ecology+digital". Digital technology, through the integration and innovation of data, algorithms, and computing power, constructs a green manufacturing system, drives industrial structure upgrading, promotes energy structure transformation, improves energy utilization efficiency, and reduces carbon emissions. The development of the digital economy constantly changes people's living habits and consumption behavior, which helps to promote the formation of a green and low-carbon lifestyle.
Promote the construction of a global digital community and pursue the path of peaceful development. Currently, competition around key digital technologies is becoming increasingly fierce, and the global digital economy governance field is facing new challenges such as data cross-border, data security, and data property rights. Various ideologies, cultures, and diverse values are fiercely competing in the digital space with the flow of data, bringing huge risks to industrial development, social stability, and national security. Vigorously promoting digital goodness, co construction and sharing of digital resources, and mutually beneficial digital cooperation, working together to build a global digital community, will help make greater contributions to human peace and development, and enhance the well-being of all humanity.
Building a path for the development of digital economy with Chinese characteristics
The modernization of over 1.4 billion people in our country is an unprecedented event in the history of human development, and it will undoubtedly make new contributions to the progress of civilization for all mankind. To vigorously develop the digital economy in the historical process of promoting Chinese path to modernization, we must stand on the height of coordinating the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the great changes in the world that have not occurred in a century, deeply realize that this is an arduous task of time change, and firmly embark on a path of digital economy development with Chinese characteristics.
Do a good job in top-level design. The digital economy concerns the overall situation of the country. To make our digital economy stronger and better, and to promote Chinese path to modernization, we must strengthen the Party's overall leadership over economic work, and do a good job in the top-level design and institutional mechanism construction of digital economy development. The top-level design must adhere to the development concept of putting the people at the center, adhere to and improve the basic socialist economic system, promote high-quality development with the new development concept, deeply integrate the digital economy with the real economy, organically combine self-reliance and self-improvement with opening up to the outside world, and firmly enhance the governance efficiency of the digital economy.
Build a solid foundation for the digital economy. Fully leverage the role of data as a fundamental resource and innovation engine. On the one hand, strengthen the digital infrastructure, improve and perfect the national basic data resource system in natural resources, ecological environment, spatial geography, macroeconomic and other fields. In accordance with the requirements of high-speed ubiquitous, integration of heaven and earth, cloud network integration, intelligent agility, green low-carbon, and safe and controllable, open up the "big artery" of data, ensure and smooth data resource circulation and utilization, strengthen the effective coordination and layout optimization of data, computing power, algorithms, and applications, and improve the level of digital infrastructure construction and application. On the other hand, strengthening digital key capabilities, focusing on data innovation, mining data value, improving data credibility, activating the potential of data elements, especially strengthening key core technology research and development in fields such as quantum computing, artificial intelligence, digital twins, and human-computer interaction, establishing the main position of enterprise scientific and technological innovation, and building a self reliant and self strengthening digital technology innovation system.
Drive the transformation of production methods. Promote the digital transformation of industries, deepen the integration of digital economy and real economy, and strengthen the spatiotemporal and industrial correlation of economic activities with digital technology. Grasp the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration, build a model of "industrial brain+future factory", promote the integration of industrial chain, innovation chain, capital chain, and talent chain, promote the linkage and coordination of the three industries, and facilitate innovation in the integration of large, medium, and small enterprises, and promote the continuous optimization of economic structure and significant improvement in quality and efficiency. Build a modern industrial system, promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, attach great importance to algorithm industrialization and industrial algorithmization, and drive the realization of advanced industrial foundation. Utilize digital technology to comprehensively transform traditional industries, enhance their competitiveness and production efficiency through full chain and full process transformation. Rely on new digital infrastructure such as 5G, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, Internet of Things, give play to the advantages of China's complete manufacturing system and strong supporting capacity, promote the cluster development of emerging industries, and constantly develop new models, new products, and new formats. Build an independent and controllable industrial ecology, and realize the safety and controllability of core technologies, important industries, key facilities, strategic resources, major science and technology, and leading enterprises according to the requirements of integrity, progressiveness, and safety. Enhance the resilience and security level of the industrial and supply chains, cultivate a group of large enterprises with international competitiveness and ecological dominant enterprises with industrial chain control, and build a world-class digital industry cluster.
Promote the modernization of digital governance. In accordance with the requirements of everyone's responsibility, everyone's responsibility, and everyone's enjoyment, we will promote a better combination of effective markets and promising governments, establish a diversified and collaborative digital governance pattern, and achieve the unity of economic and social benefits. On the one hand, we need to strengthen institutional construction, give full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of data resources, clarify the boundaries of data rights, regulate data behavior, and actively build data basic systems such as data property rights, circulation and trading, income distribution, and security governance; Continuously improve market economy systems such as property rights protection, market access, and fair competition, prevent platform monopolies and disorderly capital expansion, and promote the healthy and sound development of the digital economy. On the other hand, we need to improve the level of digital public services, adhere to the governance concept of putting the people at the center, enhance the digital literacy of the entire population, fulfill digital social responsibilities, promote the co construction and sharing of digital resources and digital services, formulate digital social governance measures that are suitable for the development of the digital economy, and create a modern digital society that is smart, shared, and harmonious. At the same time, we will deepen global digital governance and cooperation, jointly agree on digital rules, deepen data interconnection, and promote data security.
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