Reflect the requirements of the digital economy era, promote Chinese path to modernization, digital | technology | era
[Special research: accelerate the development of digital economy and promote Chinese path to modernization]
Editor's note
With the rapid development of digital technology, digital economy has become the main economic form following agricultural economy and industrial economy, and also an important era background for promoting Chinese path to modernization. Today's special issue of this edition has two articles to discuss in depth how to seize opportunities and meet challenges in the new era and new journey, and continue to promote Chinese path to modernization on the basis of high-quality development of the digital economy, so as to entertain readers.
Author: Huang Taiyan
Digital economy is a new economic form following agricultural economy and industrial economy, and it is an important era background to promote Chinese path to modernization. To promote Chinese path to modernization, it must reflect the era requirements of digital economy.
Achieving self-reliance in digital technology is the key to promoting Chinese path to modernization
In the era of industrial economy, achieving modernization means completing industrialization and promoting the transformation from an agricultural country to an industrial country. China started building socialism on the basis of productive forces in a semi colonial and semi feudal society, and the core of promoting socialist construction is to achieve industrialization. The Party Constitution adopted at the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "the task of the CPC is to develop the national economy in a planned way, realize the national industrialization as quickly as possible, and carry out the technological transformation of the national economy systematically and step by step, so that China has a strong modern industry, modern agriculture, modern transportation industry and modern national defense." Here, industrialization and modernization are clearly equated.
In the era of digital economy, promoting modernization not only means achieving industrialization, but also requires simultaneous digitization. Therefore, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has elevated the development of the digital economy to a national strategy. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that from now on, the central task of the CPC is to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country to build a socialist modern power in an all-round way. To build a modern strong country, it is not only necessary to build a manufacturing, quality, aerospace, transportation, and agriculture strong country, but also to accelerate the development of the digital economy, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, build a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness, and build a network strong country and a digital China.
The reason why Chinese path to modernization must complete digitalization on the basis of industrialization and build China into a powerful country in the digital economy is that the digital economy is an economic form with higher technology and efficiency, so it has enormous advantages that agricultural economic form and industrial economic form cannot match. Marx pointed out when discussing the role of the Industrial Revolution in promoting the development of productive forces, that the productive forces created by the bourgeoisie in less than a hundred years of class rule are more and greater than the total productive forces created by all generations in the past. Today's digital revolution, like the industrial revolution of the past, has also opened up vast space and possibilities for the development of productivity.Data shows that in 2021, Shanghai enterprises empowered their operations with new generation digital technologies such as cloud computing and big data, resulting in a 7.7% improvement in quality, a 15.1% reduction in costs, and a 7.7% increase in efficiency. This indicates that in the era of digital economy, digital technology has become an indispensable material and technological foundation for building a socialist modernized country.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the scale of China's digital economy has rapidly expanded. However, compared with the world's major and powerful digital economy countries, China's digital economy is large but not strong, fast but not excellent, especially in the fact that digital technology, especially key core digital technology, is still subject to human control.Only when a true great power is in its own hands can it seize the initiative in competition and development, and fundamentally safeguard national economic security, national defense security, and other security. In this sense, whether the digital technology can be self reliant and become a leading power in the world's digital economy is a key issue related to whether Chinese path to modernization can be successfully realized on schedule.
However, key digital core technologies cannot be learned in today's world. On the one hand, the accelerated iteration of digital technology has weakened or even disappeared the latecomer advantage of developing countries in this field, resulting in the failure of the technology innovation model of introducing, digesting, absorbing, and innovating. On the other hand, the digital revolution is not only a modernization task that developing countries but also developed countries must complete. Therefore, in order to enhance the international competitiveness and leadership of their digital technology, and to maintain and strengthen the dependence of developing countries on their digital technology, Western developed countries will inevitably take various measures to monopolize key core technologies. For example, in recent years, the United States has enacted the Chip and Science Act, which plays a government role in strengthening digital technology innovation in the United States while increasing efforts to curb the development of digital technology in China. Therefore, the key digital core technology cannot be achieved through transformation, and can only be achieved through self-reliance, independent innovation, and self striving.
Although faced with huge challenges, China still has great advantages in catching up with and surpassing other countries by winning the battle of tackling key digital core technologies and ensuring the smooth realization of Chinese path to modernization as scheduled.
One is the leadership advantage of the Party. The report of the 20th CPC National Congress pointed out that "Chinese path to modernization is a socialist modernization led by the CPC". By strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party in economic work, we can carry out forward-looking thinking, global planning, strategic layout, and overall promotion in the development of the digital economy. In response to the needs and possibilities of China's development, we can do a good job in top-level design, institutional mechanism construction, and policy measures to ensure the development of the digital economy.
The second is the advantage of the socialist basic economic system. The socialist market economy is a great creation of our party. On the one hand, it can fully leverage the efficiency advantage of the market's decisive role in resource allocation, promote the gathering of innovative resources in advantageous fields and enterprises, accelerate the innovation process of digital technology, and explore the direction of digital technology innovation. On the other hand, it can fully leverage the advantages of the new national system and mobilize and integrate resources for collective joint research and development in specific fields, especially when the direction of technological innovation is clear.
The third advantage is the massive amount of data. Promoting the modernization of a population of over 1.4 billion will inevitably lead to the formation of massive data. Transforming massive data into elements, values, and markets can provide rare and massive data element support for the rapid development of the digital economy.
The fourth is the advantage of broad application scenarios. China has the world's most complete industrial system and an agricultural industry system that can ensure the livelihoods of over 1.4 billion people. This provides a broad application scenario and long-term stable market space for the use of digital technology to transform traditional industries. The huge market demand will greatly promote the innovation and development of digital technology, forming a positive interaction between digital technology innovation and application.
Conform to the change of economic structure and promote Chinese path to modernization
The choice of modernization path should not only conform to the specific national conditions and culture of each country, but also adapt to the specific requirements of different eras. In the era of industrial economy, China's economic structure exhibited typical characteristics of a dual economy. Therefore, in promoting the industrialization process, China based on its own national conditions, guided by Marxist economic theory, absorbed and borrowed scientific elements from the dual economic development model, and embarked on a path of industrialization with Chinese characteristics, creating the "Chinese miracle" of economic development. The advent of the digital economy era has rewritten the dual economic structure of agricultural economy and industrial economy coexisting in developing countries, forming an economic structure where three forms of economy, namely agricultural economy, industrial economy, and digital economy, coexist. Only by complying with this change in economic structure can we achieve the important goal of continuously promoting Chinese path to modernization with high-quality development.
Digital technology innovation and digital industrialization have become important driving forces to promote Chinese path to modernization.This requires us to focus on key areas such as integrated circuits, new displays, communication equipment, and intelligent hardware, cultivate a group of large enterprises with international competitiveness and ecological dominant enterprises with industrial chain control, build an independent and controllable industrial ecosystem, and build a world-class digital industry cluster. To achieve the above requirements, we must adhere to the principle that technology is the primary productive force, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force. We must deeply implement the strategies of revitalizing the country through science and education, strengthening the country through talent, and driving development through innovation, open up new fields and tracks for development, and continuously shape new driving forces and advantages for development.
Using digital technology to promote the digital transformation of traditional industries has become an important focus to promote Chinese path to modernization.In the total scale of the digital economy, industrial digitization accounts for over 80%, and the digital transformation of traditional industries is the main battlefield for the development of the digital economy.
Establishing a modern industrial system is an important basis for promoting Chinese path to modernization.To this end, it is necessary to accelerate the upgrading of industrial structure to fill the gaps in the industry, and to modernize the industrial and supply chains by strengthening and extending the supply chain, in order to continuously enhance the integrity, completeness, and synergy of the industrial system; By accelerating digital technology innovation, strengthening and optimizing the digital economy, promoting the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, promoting the intelligent, green and integrated industrial system, and constantly improving the progressiveness, competitive and international nature of the industrial system; By independently mastering key core technologies, constructing a new development pattern, and vigorously cultivating world-class and leading enterprises, we continuously strengthen the security, stability, and resilience of the industrial system.
The basic socialist economic system is an important institutional basis for promoting Chinese path to modernization. Adhering to and improving the ownership system with public ownership as the mainstay and multiple forms of ownership developing together is conducive to leveraging the comparative advantages of various market entities at different levels of productivity, promoting complementary and integrated development. Adhering to and improving the distribution system with distribution according to work as the mainstay and multiple distribution methods coexisting is conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of workers, increasing the contribution of factor owners, allowing all sources of creating social wealth to flow fully, and promoting common prosperity. Adhering to and improving the socialist market economy system is conducive to the organic combination of an effective market and a capable government, promoting the effective and rational allocation of resources, and maximizing the development and liberation of productive forces. Adhering to and improving the basic socialist economic system is conducive to promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, transforming institutional advantages into governance advantages, and showcasing institutional advantages through governance advantages.
Promote Chinese path to modernization with the synchronous development of "new four modernizations"
Promoting the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization is the only way to promote Chinese path to modernization proposed by our party according to the specific national conditions of our country and the specific requirements of the digital economy era. To promote the synchronous development of the "New Four Modernizations", it is required that the "New Four Modernizations" not only be independent and indispensable, but also mutually promote, integrate and support each other, achieving coordinated development.
One is the mutual promotion of the "new four modernizations".To promote the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization is to accelerate the innovation of new generation information technology, the Internet, big data, cloud computing, blockchain and other digital technologies, not only to promote the birth of digital industry clusters with international competitiveness, but also to widely apply digital technology to the process of new industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization, promote the digitalization of traditional industries, and strengthen, optimize and expand the digital economy; Through the widespread application of digital technology in new industrialization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, the advantages of massive data and broad application scenarios can be formed, which can further promote the innovation and development of digital technology, and thus form a smooth cycle of mutual promotion and driving force for the "new four modernizations".
The second is the mutual integration of the "new four modernizations".To promote the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, it is necessary to deeply integrate the digital economy with the real economy, develop advanced manufacturing and a high-quality and efficient modern agricultural industrial system, and achieve changes in the quality, efficiency, and driving force of economic operation; By deeply integrating informatization and urbanization, promoting equalization of public services, improving the quality of urbanization development, and achieving people-oriented urbanization; By integrating the development of new industrialization, informatization, and agricultural modernization, we will accelerate the filling of the gaps in agricultural modernization and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
The third is the mutual support of the "new four modernizations".Promote the synchronous development of new industrialization, informatization, urbanization, and agricultural modernization, emphasizing the focus of economic development on the real economy, and creating a strong foundation and solid support for digital technology innovation and digital economic development; Through the development of new industrialization and informatization, the agglomeration of population and industries in cities needs to be formed, which requires promoting new urbanization, especially providing high-quality spatial support for the development of urban clusters driven by the radiation of central cities; The development of agricultural modernization can provide solid basic support for new industrialization, informatization, and urbanization, including food, population, resources, and markets.
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