As early as 1995, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development elaborated on the possible development trends of the digital economy, proposing that under the impetus of the Internet technology revolution, human development will transform from atomic processing to digital information processing. In the 21st century, due to the rapid proliferation and application of a new generation of digital information technology in the economy and society, the digital economy has gradually formed and developed. The new generation of digital information technology represented by big data, artificial intelligence, mobile Internet, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things ("Big Smart Cloud Network") has made breakthroughs and has given birth to a series of new technologies based on data acquisition, storage and processing. Industries, new formats, new models. At the same time, after land, capital, technology and other factors, data has become a new key production factor. It can be said that the digital economy has become a very important economic form in the world today.
At present, digital technology is deeply integrated with various fields of economy and society. The digital economy is favored by countries all over the world because of its important role in cultivating new economic forms and building new competitive advantages. Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", my country has developed from "following" to "paralleling" in the field of digital technology, and even achieved "leading" in some areas. The digital economy has developed rapidly, enterprises have benefited extensively, and the people have generally benefited. Digital information technology represented by the "Big Smart Mobile Cloud Network" has achieved innovative applications in various industries in our country, which not only greatly improves the efficiency and benefits of the industry, but also reshapes production methods, service models and organizational forms, and creates a huge economy and society value.
At the same time, the proportion of industries related to digital information technology has also increased significantly, and digitalization is becoming a significant feature of my country's industrial structure. Specifically, the digital information technology industry is becoming a pillar industry of my country's national economy. The rapid development of the consumer Internet has stimulated the huge potential of digital consumption. The industrial Internet has built a platform for interconnection and facilitated the digital upgrading and transformation of traditional industries. The development of the digital economy not only provides new impetus for economic growth, but also provides a strong momentum for the digital upgrading and transformation of industries.
We need to see that the digital economy is gradually developing on the basis of the industrial revolution and institutional innovation in the field of digital technology. It is a comprehensive manifestation of new technologies, new products, new formats, and new models. It is in support of foundations, technical characteristics, organizational structure and Industrial organization and other aspects have shown unique advantages. Especially in the context of being hit by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the digital economy has demonstrated strong shock resistance and development resilience, and has played an active role in maintaining consumption, ensuring employment, and stabilizing the market. For example, "Big Smart Mobile Cloud Network" can effectively promote science and technology to fight the epidemic, and escort enterprises to resume work and production; online consumer services have shown a substantial growth trend, effectively hedging the impact of the epidemic on real economic activities.
The Central Economic Work Conference put forward that "we must vigorously develop the digital economy." This year's "Government Work Report" put forward the requirement of "creating new advantages in the digital economy". We are also facing the goal and task of building a better digital China. In this regard, it is necessary to give full play to the optimization and integration role of the digital economy in the allocation of production factors, further promote the in-depth integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and thereby enhance the development resilience and innovation capabilities of the real economy.
One is to accelerate the reform of the system and mechanism. The focus is to eliminate the obstacles that hinder the free combination of factors as soon as possible, accelerate the institutional innovation and supply that promote the development of the digital economy, accelerate the integrated development of the digital economy and traditional industries, and realize the digital upgrade and transformation of the industry. It is necessary to continue to deepen the supply-side structural reforms to provide a good environment for the development of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization; to actively guide enterprises to buck the trend and seek change, face difficulties and create new ideas, accelerate digital transformation, and encourage enterprises to solve "dare to change" A series of practical problems restricting better development, such as “no transfer”, “no transfer”, etc.; it is necessary to vigorously promote the construction of regional digitalization, industry digitalization and enterprise digitalization promotion centers, guide the construction of digital transformation open source communities, and strengthen platforms, algorithms, Service providers, experts, talents, finance, etc. are conducive to the construction of public services for digital transformation, and reduce the threshold and cost of digital industrialization and industrial digital transformation.
The second is to build a networked collaboration platform. Vigorously support core enterprises, especially leading enterprises with the ability to drive the industrial chain, to build a networked collaborative platform, encourage them to drive upstream and downstream enterprises to accelerate digital transformation, promote the upgrade of the industrial chain to a higher level, and promote the service of traditional industries; actively cultivate digital economy Leading enterprises, creating digital virtual industrial parks and digital virtual industrial clusters, breaking through the limitations of traditional physical boundaries, and giving full play to the synergistic multiplication effect between enterprises; fostering new formats of digital economy, vigorously supporting the construction of digital supply chains, and promoting orders, production capacity, and channels among enterprises To achieve resource sharing and effective collaboration.
The third is to introduce and train high-end talents in the field of digital economy. Actively and steadily build a talent chain that matches the digital economy industry chain, adhere to the combination of vigorously introducing and independent training, and insist on using a combination of international and domestic talents. It is necessary to focus on the talent positioning required by the digital economy, accelerate the construction of a well-defined talent introduction policy system; fully mobilize the enthusiasm of innovative entities, accelerate the construction of research institutions in the digital economy, and build a platform for the gathering of top talents around the world. It is necessary to effectively solve the vital interest related issues such as living and housing, children's enrollment in nursery school, elderly support and medical care, and personal tax payment and rebate that talents are concerned about. At the same time, it is necessary to further improve the policy for international students and take multiple measures to attract foreign high-level youth reserve talents.
The fourth is to steadily promote the inclusive "cloud, use data, and empower intelligence" services. Accelerate the establishment of a joint promotion mechanism including the government, platform companies, industry leaders, industry associations, service organizations, and small, medium and micro enterprises, and actively encourage and promote the digital transformation of small, medium and micro enterprises, and to a greater extent and to a deeper degree Promote inclusive "cloud, use data, and empower intelligence" services, work hard to eliminate data islands, and realize the intercommunication and sharing of data resources; through digital technology innovation, new industries, new formats, and new models are spawned to better realize the digital industrialization economy And social benefits; enhance the service supply capacity for the digital transformation and upgrading of the industry, stimulate the endogenous power of the digital transformation of enterprises, release the multiplier effect of digital on the development of the real economy, and provide new momentum for promoting high-quality economic development.
Source: Economic Daily
Author: Institute of Industrial Economics of CASS researcher Daniel
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