Lhasa's Digital Economy Has Many Highlights

At the Digital Economy Enterprise Exhibition, one of the activities of the 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference Lhasa Summit, visitors are experiencing virtual archery technology. Photo by Dai Ling, a journalist from Economic Daily

Not long ago, the "Digital Night" City Pulse Lighting Ceremony of the 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference Lhasa Summit was held at the Lhasa Chinese Cultural Park. Using digital technology, Lhasa, located on the snowy plateau, lights up the pulse of the city in sync with Beijing and Singapore.

The Tenth Party Congress of the Xizang Autonomous Region proposed to seize the "digital opportunity", speed up the development of high-tech digital industries, build a digital port facing South Asia, and promote industrial digitalization and digital industrialization. In recent years, Lhasa has firmly grasped the opportunities for the development of the digital economy, based on local characteristics and resource supply, deeply promoted the development of "digital city", coordinated the layout of "digital Lhasa" construction, coordinated the promotion of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, and made every effort to build a big data industry base radiating to South Asia, gradually exploring a unique path suitable for the development of Lhasa's digital economy.

Last year, the digital economic output value of Lhasa reached 5.562 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%, accounting for 27.16% of the whole region, which played an important supporting role in the construction of "digital Xizang".

Improve digital infrastructure

"Selling vegetables, selling vegetables. Today's vegetable package includes green bamboo shoots, spinach, cauliflower, tomatoes, and 1 pound of cucumber as a gift. The small yellow cart in the bottom left corner places an order independently and sends it by postal express." In the vegetable greenhouse in Tangga Township, Dazi District, Lhasa City, anchor Bai Mawengmu is live streaming in the "Ajiawangmu" live broadcast room, with clear and smooth visuals.

"The internet in Lhasa is very good now, and live streaming can be done in the fields and fields." Bai Mawenmu said, allowing consumers to have a clear understanding of the growth environment of agricultural products will increase their enthusiasm for purchasing. The development of network infrastructure helps agricultural products enter a broader market.

During the years of live streaming sales, Bai Mawenmu visited many remote villages. "Only one ranch network is slightly inferior, while the networks in other places fully meet the requirements of live streaming." She said that in recent years, the network infrastructure has been improving.

With the goal of building intelligent and comprehensive digital infrastructure, Lhasa is coordinating the promotion of network infrastructure, computing power infrastructure, and application infrastructure, promoting interconnectivity, co construction, sharing, and intensive utilization, and striving to open up the main artery of digital infrastructure.

Lhasa has set up a leading group for the construction of "Digital Lhasa", a special promotion group and office for the digital economy, coordinated the promotion of various work, accelerated the implementation of various plans such as the informatization special plan, the industrial Internet special plan, the digital agriculture rural development plan during the "14th Five Year Plan" period, and coordinated the overall promotion of the city's digital construction and development. The development plan of Lhasa's digital economy is about to be prepared and issued.

At present, Lhasa has successfully applied for the "Broadband China" demonstration city, with the city's administrative village broadband rate, fixed broadband household penetration rate, and urban fiber optic broadband coverage rate reaching 100%, 96%, and 99% respectively. The 4G network covers cities, towns, and major transportation arteries, and 4000 5G logic stations have been built and opened. Lhasa is the first to achieve full coverage of the "four level" e-government network in cities, counties, and villages throughout the region, and has completed the IPv6 transformation and upgrading of 54 government websites. 23 units and 47 departments in the city operate their business systems securely on the Lhasa government cloud.

Lhasa also focuses on optimizing the computing system, promoting the trial operation of Lhasa's regional international communication business import and export bureau, carrying out international data line business and Internet transfer business, and opening up the data channel for South Asia.

In recent years, Lhasa has actively integrated into the joint construction of the "the Belt and Road" and the national deployment of "data from the east to the west", accelerated the construction of the national "dual integration" comprehensive pilot city, the national cross-border e-commerce comprehensive pilot area, built and operated a regional international communication business import and export bureau, and the national high-tech new area has flourished. Digital Lhasa is taking on a new look.

Empowering industry optimization and upgrading

At the entrance of Norbulingka Scenic Area in Lhasa, tourists can open the digital tourism card page through the "Lhasa Tourism" official account, click "Scan the code to enter the park" and show the QR code to enter the park without buying tickets. This year's Tourism Day, the tourism department of Lhasa City has launched a digital tourism card, which allows you to visit more than 20 scenic spots included in the card for free with just one card in hand.

The tourism industry is the pillar industry of Lhasa. Lhasa continues to promote the construction of smart tourism and increases investment in the digital productivity of tourist attractions. 23 A-level scenic spots in the city have installed the "Smart Travel Treasure" mobile app reservation system. Nowadays, in these scenic spots, intelligent tour guides and electronic explanations can be achieved by simply scanning the QR code. Lhasa is committed to creating a new form of smart tourism that integrates offline and online, and integrates with each other, empowering the recovery and upgrading of the tourism economy through "tourism+" and "tourism+". At present, the coverage rate of Lhasa's smart tourism scenic spots is 65.5%.

Lhasa actively embraces the digital economy and promotes the digital transformation of industries. Liu Xiaobin, Director of the Big Data Bureau of Lhasa City, said that the Lhasa software and information service industry has been included in the statistical scope of 16 enterprises above designated size, accounting for 100% of the entire region; 903000 IoT cards online; Completed 10 industrial digital transformation demonstration projects, accounting for 58.82% of the entire region; Build 5 5G application pilot projects, accounting for 45.45% of the total area; There are 20 national level enterprises that have achieved standardization through the integration of industrialization and industrialization, accounting for 86.96% of the entire region.

In addition, Lhasa actively promotes digital industrialization. Especially in the past two years, the development of Lhasa's digital industry has entered a fast lane. There are a total of 236 enterprises in the city that have obtained the national qualification for technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, accounting for 86.8% of the entire region, of which more than 160 are soft information enterprises.

Lhasa High tech Zone invested 520 million yuan to build Xizang's first digital economy industrial park and digital economy industry incubator, and 21 enterprises have settled in and put into operation. Using the High tech Zone as a carrier, Lhasa supports the development and growth of digital enterprises, creating a competitive digital industry cluster. As of now, the Lhasa High tech Zone has registered a total of 2213 digital economy enterprises.

Dawa Ciren, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Committee of Lhasa High tech Zone, said that they are building a tiered incubation system of "nursery maker space incubator industrial park" to provide venues for digital economy industry incubators. "We invite professional companies to manage and operate, creating a good environment for the later development of digital industrial parks.".

Efficient and convenient service for people's livelihood

In July, in Lakang Village, Alang Township, Linzhou County, Lhasa City, herds of yaks leisurely graze in the pasture, while herdsmen graze at home using their phones. This is thanks to the application of the intelligent yak management system.

"In the past, when a yak got lost, we had to search all over the mountain, but not necessarily find it. Now with this system, we can always know the location and health status of the yak," said Dawa, a resident of Lakang Village.

Feng Jianshang, a staff member of Lhasa Digital Economy Industry Group Co., Ltd. who developed the system, told reporters that by equipping yaks with locators, setting up electronic fences, and empowering farmers and herdsmen with digital yak management, rural revitalization can be achieved.

Lhasa citizen Deqing Cuom drives past the intersection of Sabo Square every day when he goes to work. This year, she found that waiting for traffic lights at intersections has become more reasonable. Originally, Lhasa City conducted a smart transportation pilot at this intersection. Currently, a total of 6 intersections in the city have been included in the pilot.

This is a holographic intersection solution that uses algorithms to arrange the duration of traffic lights in a reasonable manner, turning waiting lights into waiting lights for vehicles, making everyone's waiting time more reasonable and avoiding situations where vehicles overflow the intersection.

In terms of education, remote classrooms have built a bridge for communication between students in Beijing and Lhasa; In terms of healthcare, the Health Cloud Platform enables the interconnection and exchange of basic medical information within the Lhasa region; In terms of transportation, intelligent bus stop signs can quickly grasp the arrival time of buses.

"Nowadays, water and electricity bills can be paid online, and many things can be done online," said Nima Yuzhen, a resident of Lhasa. Digital technology has made life more and more convenient.

Lhasa actively develops efficient and collaborative digital governance, establishes the "Sadu Ban" service brand, fully integrates 87 convenient applications such as ticket booking, medical insurance card services, and salary inquiries, and achieves online services with "one-time registration, multi-point mutual recognition, and full network access", steadily achieving "more data and less people running".