Yesterday I saw a material introducing "Digital Japan", so I wanted to record some key points.
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The government needs money to run.
The government needs to operate the city in order to get money.
The government, with money, can provide administrative services to individuals and businesses.
So the Japanese government wants to do a few things:
1. Cities: garden cities (environmental protection-circulation, energy saving-new energy), smart cities (convenient and inconvenient for people to live and work freely in cities like ordinary people)
2. Local revitalization - solving local government fiscal deficit: developing local economy - increasing tax revenue - optimizing fiscal expenditure
3. E-government
However, the Japanese government cannot mediate due to the interests of all parties - the bigger the package, the bigger it is, and it also wants to engage in: support for overseas development of Japanese companies.
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So the Japanese government has done a few things:
1. IT infrastructure: first build 5G-wireless network for high-speed data transmission, government cloud (public for external scenarios-private for internal scenarios), and data transfer security guarantee
2. Optimize tax revenue-enterprise: electronic contract-tax electronic invoice. Optimizing Tax Revenue - Individuals: Electronic Certificates, Electronic Signatures
3. Financial expenditure optimization: medical-social security, electronic medical records-electronic medical records data sharing data transfer security guarantee
These few things not only optimize the government's finances (it cannot solve the government's fiscal deficit and cannot revitalize the local area), but it is also equivalent to the facilitation of administrative services provided by the government to the society (enterprises, individuals). Played a good hand.
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As for the city: the garden city (environmental protection-circulation, energy saving-new energy), it is true that Japan's Fukushima nuclear power incident triggered new energy, and China's new energy vehicle pressure has given Japan's backbone industry-traditional gasoline vehicles, Japan really wants to We are working hard on new energy, but the traditional vested interest group-Japan's long-standing chaebol mechanism makes progress in this area difficult. In terms of environmental protection and recycling, Japan is already very strong.
As for the smart city proposed by Japan 40 years ago (1986-1991): it is convenient and inconvenient for ordinary people to live and work freely in the city. Because of the collapse of the Japanese stock market and housing market in 1991, Japan’s last attempt to concentrate on major tasks also failed. The Japanese government could no longer be organized. Back then, the fifth-generation computer system with Smart and Intelligence as the core, united with European forces, developed chips, smart operating systems, platforms, and programming languages needed for AI, and guided by smart city-smart cars-smart home application scenarios, But it failed in the end, and the good vision is embarrassing. Considering that Japan is the country with the highest urbanization rate in the world, in order to further boost the economy, the government borrows money to invest in urban reconstruction for the convenience of the elderly, the sick, the disabled and pregnant. When we travel to Japan, we can really feel the convenience of Japanese cities everywhere. . Later, the Japanese government wanted to make great strides to further stimulate the economy and build smart cities...but...
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Finally, let's talk about the overseas development of Japanese companies. In the 1970s, the Japanese government proposed the goose-wing strategy, but it has not been seriously implemented because it is not forced. Later, in the 1985 Japan-US trade war-Plaza Agreement, Japanese companies chose to deploy the four Asian tigers-Southeast Asia-Mainland China due to export restrictions-tariffs-local raw material costs and labor costs. After ten years of investment, the results are gradually showing: Japanese companies have developed overseas industries as the main force, and domestic industries have gradually become hollow (retaining core R&D and core parts production). Finally, the United States chose Thailand to detonate the Asian financial crisis. The domestic industry is hollow. In 2021, under the background of the Sino-US trade war and the rebalancing of the US to the Asia-Pacific, Japan has proposed the overseas development of Japanese companies.
