Zhao Jianbo: Grasping the Development Law of Digital Economy Economy | Development | Digital Economy
The digital economy, with data resources as the key element, modern information networks as the main carrier, and the integration and application of information and communication technology and full factor digital transformation as important driving forces, has become an important component of economic and social development. The development speed of the digital economy is very fast, and its development laws can be accurately understood and grasped from the micro, meso, and macro levels.
At the micro level, the rapid rise of platform enterprises is driving the development of digital industrialization, while the digital transformation of traditional enterprises is also driving the digital development of industries. The two constitute the micro foundation of the digital economy. With the widespread penetration of digital technology, platform enterprises have risen rapidly. Under the influence of economies of scale, network effects, and matching mechanisms, new profit and growth models have been constructed, which is also an important driving force for promoting high-quality development of the digital economy. Traditional enterprises can improve their operational efficiency through digital transformation. The digital transformation of enterprises should be a comprehensive transformation that includes production management models, value creation models, organizational management methods, etc., to promote high-quality development of enterprises through digital transformation. Massive data holds enormous value, and data value is achieved through digital quantification, storage, generation, and precipitation into data elements, which are then aggregated, calculated, and analyzed to achieve "speaking with data, making decisions with data, managing with data, and innovating with data.".
At the meso level, the integration of data and reality can generate industrial innovation effects, correlation effects, and integration effects, reshape the division of labor logic and operation mode within the industrial chain, achieve functional complementarity and cross-border collaboration between industries, and promote industrial organization innovation and industrial chain upgrading. Digital enterprises are becoming the main source of innovation in industrial technology, targeting market demand and application scenarios for technological innovation, which is itself promoting the diffusion of new technologies. Digital technology can broaden the horizontal boundaries of industrial integration, extend the vertical industrial chain, promote ubiquitous linkage and collaboration throughout the entire industrial chain, and support the construction of a comprehensive interconnected manufacturing system. Platform enterprises, with their unique network effects, link various entities in the upstream and downstream or commercial ecosystem, generating industrial correlation effects. The charm of the digital economy lies in breaking the traditional development model, simplifying the flow of resource elements through the infiltration and integration of existing industries and traditional factors, achieving rational factor allocation, and promoting coordinated development between upstream and downstream industries in the industrial chain.
At the macro level, the digital economy promotes high-quality development by improving total factor productivity and creating more job opportunities. Digital technology and data elements can not only be directly put into production, but also improve the production efficiency of traditional elements. The development of digital economy helps to improve the quality of supply system, optimize industrial division of labor structure, improve resource allocation efficiency, and significantly enhance total factor productivity by influencing economic scale, production efficiency, technological innovation, and other aspects. The development and penetration of digital technology have effectively promoted market-oriented resource allocation, precise supply-demand matching, and convenient information acquisition, giving birth to new forms and models of the economy, driving the development of digital professions, expanding the size and boundaries of the employment market, and having a significant creative effect on employment. It is conducive to promoting the optimization of employment structure and the improvement of employment quality, and achieving high-quality employment.
Developing the digital economy is a strategic choice to seize the new opportunities of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. We must not only adhere to innovation driven, unleash the potential of digital innovation value, but also improve collaborative mechanisms, build a modern governance system, tap into digital value, leverage the doubling effect of data elements, and promote high-quality development of the digital economy from the aspects of industrial digitization, digital industrialization, and data value.
