As the use of drones for river inspection by water conservancy departments allows for real-time updates on watershed dynamics, including water levels and flow rates, and digital twin technology enables precise monitoring of hydraulic engineering, the concept of "digital empowerment" has garnered significant attention across various sectors due to the extensive application of digital technologies. The rapid integration of digital technology into all aspects of economic and social development is creating new production and living scenarios, profoundly transforming production methodologies, lifestyles, and social governance. This change has become a critical driving force behind societal progress and economic transformation.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party and the State Council have placed great importance on digitally empowering economic and social development, introducing a series of policies to strengthen the applications of digital technologies, innovate the allocation of resources, and promote the in-depth fusion of digital technology with various fields. The digital economy is experiencing explosive growth, with a significant expansion and deepening of application scenarios. By 2024, the added value of China's core digital economy sectors is projected to account for approximately 10% of the gross domestic product (GDP), and the number of 5G base stations is expected to reach 4.251 million. Innovative scenarios generated by digital technologies are reshaping the future of production and life, from digital agriculture, smart water conservancy, and automated workshops to digital government and smart education.
Emerging cross-disciplinary scenarios such as autonomous driving, virtual reality (VR), smart wearables, and smart healthcare are rapidly gaining traction. New scenarios focused on data openness and technological sharing are continuously emerging, while new resource allocation methods involving data and computing power are innovatively explored. However, it should be noted that challenges persist in the field of digital empowerment, limiting the innovative applications of digital technologies. There is still a need to enhance digital technology and infrastructure, address systemic barriers to market-oriented data resource allocation, and tackle difficulties in data rights confirmation, pricing, trading, and distribution. Additionally, the construction of standard systems for innovative scenarios in emerging industries is relatively lagging, and there is insufficient resource availability for scenario opportunities, alongside inadequate market access for innovative resources.
Unlocking the potential of "digital empowerment" requires focusing on technological innovation and systemic reform. It is essential to prioritize innovation and reform, leveraging strong technologies, expanding scenarios, optimizing mechanisms, and solidifying foundations. This approach will facilitate the rapid unlocking of new application scenarios through digital technologies, accelerate the opening of innovative opportunities, optimize resource allocation, and foster deep integration of industrial and supply chains, continuously transforming innovative outputs into public welfare.
To ascend towards "digital," we must enhance technological innovation. This includes strengthening efforts in core technology breakthroughs and accelerating the integration of technologies such as blockchain with a new generation of information technologies like the internet, big data, and artificial intelligence. Establishing various innovative platforms in the data sector, promoting foundational research and cutting-edge technological innovations, and advancing the construction of innovation consortia are also crucial. Building and improving data resource-sharing mechanisms will facilitate deep integration of data with other production factors, enabling collaborative progress in industrial upgrades, green development, and modern governance, thereby giving birth to new businesses, models, and scenarios while driving the vigorous development of digital transformation across various fields.
Moving towards "intelligence," we aim to refresh application scenarios. By focusing on technological innovation and breakthroughs based on development needs, resource endowments, and industrial foundations, scene resources in areas like technological innovation, industrial development, social governance, and public welfare will be expanded in phases. This effort will accelerate the formation of a positive cycle: "technological breakthroughs—scenario innovation—industrial application—innovative ecology."
Enhancing inter-departmental sharing of public services, mutual recognition and connectivity across regions, and making services available away from their locations will enhance the accessibility of digital public services in education, healthcare, social security, and pension fields. Meanwhile, various consumer sectors such as commerce, culture, tourism, sports, health, and transportation will integrate seamlessly to innovate new services, experiences, and models through "Internet +" and "Smart +." Public service facilities will be better aligned with population distribution, leading to improved service accuracy and capabilities, ensuring that "policies find people and services find people."
As we move toward optimization of resource configuration, it is important to leverage the advantages of both government and market forces, allowing the market to play a decisive role in resource allocation while enhancing government guidance. This includes motivating local governments, state-owned enterprises, private businesses, and research institutions to actively participate in constructing a data factor market, tapping into scenario open innovation resources, and smoothing pathways for innovative resources to enter the market. Addressing systemic barriers that hinder the smooth flow of resource allocation is crucial, including developing property rights, market pricing, and benefit distribution mechanisms for new production factors such as data. This will lead to a collaborative development and harmonious resonance between technological breakthroughs, scenario innovations, and industrial transformations.
To build a solid foundation for digital advancements, we must strengthen our digital base by coordinating the construction of digital infrastructures based on application scenarios. This includes comprehensively implementing the "East Data West Computing" project, enhancing urban computing capacity, and developing diverse computational resources such as general computing, intelligent computing, and supercomputing. The aim is to promote the integrated transportation of various computation resources across regions and establish ubiquitous, intelligent, agile, and efficient infrastructure service capabilities. Furthermore, optimizing telecommunications network construction to gradually expand the coverage of next-generation communication networks will enhance the efficiency of these networks while bolstering the stability and security of information transmission. Strengthening digital infrastructure around key industry sectors and enhancing the construction of digital service platforms are vital for efficient data collection, sharing, and establishing a high-performance supply chain service system.
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