Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the “Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”). The “Plan” points out that building Digital China is an important engine for promoting Chinese-style modernization in the digital era and a strong support for building new national competitive advantages. Accelerating the construction of Digital China is of great significance and far-reaching impact on comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
An inventory of important policies in the “Plan”
01. Strengthen digital infrastructure
As one of the two major bases for building Digital China, digital infrastructure is driven by data innovation, based on communication networks, and has data computing facilities as its core. It is mainly composed of hardware and software. From a technical perspective, the “Plan” mainly involves the collaborative construction of 5G networks and gigabit optical networks, guiding the reasonable echelon layout of general data centers, supercomputing centers, intelligent computing centers, edge data centers, etc., and promoting the comprehensive development of the mobile Internet of Things.
02. Promote the “five-in-one” deep integration
Digital technology is being fully integrated into all fields and the entire process of human economy, politics, culture, society, and ecological civilization construction with new concepts, new business formats, and new models, bringing extensive and profound impact on human production and life. The “Plan” points out that it is necessary to comprehensively empower economic and social development and promote the “five-in-one” deep integration of digital technology with economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological civilization construction, that is, to make the digital economy stronger, better, and bigger, and to develop an efficient and coordinated Digital government affairs, create a confident and prosperous digital culture, build an inclusive and convenient digital society, and build a green and smart digital ecological civilization.
03. Strengthen the construction of digital security barriers
As the complexity of digital infrastructure gradually increases, in order to effectively respond to changing and complex cyber attacks and data security threats, it is crucial to build a trustworthy and controllable digital security barrier for the construction of Digital China. The “Plan” points out that it is necessary to enhance data security capabilities, establish a basic system for data classification and hierarchical protection, and improve the network data monitoring, early warning and emergency response work system.
The “Plan” proposes that by 2025, digital infrastructure will be efficiently connected, the scale and quality of data resources will accelerate, the value of data elements will be effectively released, the quality and efficiency of digital economic development will be greatly enhanced, the level of digital and intelligent government affairs will be significantly improved, and the construction of digital culture will leap to a new level. At a new level, the digital society has achieved remarkable results in precision, generalization, convenience and convenience, made positive progress in the construction of digital ecological civilization, achieved major breakthroughs in digital technology innovation, led the world in application innovation, comprehensively improved digital security capabilities, and further improved the digital governance system. International cooperation in the field has opened up a new situation.
The promulgation of the “Plan” is of great significance in promoting China’s economic transformation and upgrading, enhancing national competitiveness and innovation capabilities, improving public services and governance, and achieving sustainable development goals. Incorporating digital government construction into assessment and evaluation can promote the digital transformation of governments at all levels and improve the quality and efficiency of government services. In the future, we should also accelerate the coordination of digital economic development and governance, establish and improve a detailed system of rules and regulations as soon as possible, and ensure data security while stimulating the vitality of the digital economy.
The “Plan” released this time clarifies that the construction of Digital China will be laid out according to the overall framework of “2522”, that is, to consolidate the “two foundations” of digital infrastructure and data resource systems, and to promote digital technology and economy, politics, culture, society, The “five-in-one” construction of ecological civilization is deeply integrated, strengthening the “two major capabilities” of the digital technology innovation system and the digital security barrier, and optimizing the “two environments” of domestic and international digital development.
In the context of the development of the digital economy, with the widespread application of big data, mobile Internet, artificial intelligence and other technologies, it will profoundly affect the supply and demand sides, and will be more conducive to achieving a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand. This will have a profound impact on the physical The efficient development of the Internet industry will be a good boost. The release of the “Plan” will surely bring more development opportunities to IoT-related industries.