"Economic Reference Daily" published an article: focus on key areas The digital industry cluster will accelerate the expansion

Beijing, 27 Oct (Xinhua) -- The Economic Information Daily, published on October 28, will publish an article written by reporters Guo Qian and Ban Juanjuan entitled "Focus on Key Areas and Digital Industry Clusters Will Accelerate Expansion." The summary is as follows:

The "Economic Information Daily" reporter learned that relevant ministries and localities are focusing on making the digital economy bigger and stronger, accelerating the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitalization. While empowering the digitization and intelligent upgrading of traditional industries, we will focus on key areas such as cloud computing, big data, the Internet of Things, industrial Internet, blockchain, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and augmented reality industries, and accelerate the development and expansion of the digital industry. Many places have clearly decided to build 100-billion-level and trillion-level digital industrial clusters with international competitiveness.

The digital transformation of the industry highlights the surging power of the digital economy. In 2020, the scale of industrial digitalization reached 31.7 trillion yuan, accounting for 31.2% of GDP.

A new round of multi-sector support initiatives is intensifying. Xiao Yaqing, minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will make overall plans for intelligent manufacturing projects, digital transformation actions in the manufacturing industry and digital empowerment actions for small and medium-sized enterprises, so that digital technology can better empower the development of large and medium-sized enterprises and enhance the resilience and resilience of the industrial chain supply chain.

Sun Ke, deputy director of the Institute of Policy and Economics of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, told the Economic Reference Daily that the digital transformation has accelerated in an all-round way, and new models and new formats have been deepening. In the future, the economic scale driven by the digital transformation of the industry will continue to expand.

The "2021 China Digital Economy Development Report" released by the China Electronics Information Industry Development Research Institute pointed out that the digital industry is becoming a common choice for all localities planning the development of the "14th Five-Year Plan" industry. Among the 25 advanced manufacturing clusters jointly built by the ministry and the province, 40% of them are led by digital industry.

Wang Juan, secretary general of the Digital Economy Committee of the Beijing Computer Society, told the Economic Reference Daily that for key areas such as big data, artificial intelligence, industrial Internet, virtual reality and augmented reality, different regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao have given full play to their leading and demonstration roles to form an internationally competitive digital industrial cluster; Fuzhou, Hefei, Chongqing, Guiyang and other places have also formed their own unique digital industrial clusters to promote high-quality development.

Looking forward to the next step, digital industry clusters in key areas are expected to accelerate their expansion. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that it will further promote the digital industry to become bigger and stronger. Focusing on the seven key industries and ten digital application scenarios listed in the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline, we will focus on promoting the development of strategic emerging industries such as big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain with application as the traction, focus on cultivating an open source ecology, and create an internationally competitive digital industry cluster.

Local deployments have also been made. For example, Guangdong Province will accelerate the cultivation of a new generation of strategic industrial clusters in the field of digital economy such as electronic information, software and information services, ultra-high-definition video display, intelligent robots, and digital creativity. It is estimated that by 2025, the operating income of Guangdong's digital industry cluster will exceed 10.7 trillion yuan; Guizhou has made it clear that the big data industry cluster is one of the pillar industrial clusters, and it is expected that by 2025, the scale of the province's big data industry cluster will reach 300 billion yuan.

In the view of experts, under the catalysis of a series of favorable policies, the development of the digital economy will usher in a new climax. At the same time, it should also be noted that the level of integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy needs to be improved, and it is necessary to further exert the amplification, superposition and multiplication effect of digital technology on economic development.

Source: Xinhua News Agency