On February 27, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China, which proposed to consolidate the foundation for the construction of digital China, first, to open up the main artery of digital infrastructure, and second, to unblock the systemic circulation of data resources. Experts have stated that the "Plan" provides programmatic guidance for the systematic layout of digital China construction, while also identifying the main direction for cultivating the development of core industries in the digital economy and promoting the process of industrial digitization and digital industrialization.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is a technology and tool aimed at serving humanity. From this perspective, artificial intelligence, as a supplement and extension of human intelligence, can bring more convenience and efficiency to humanity. Therefore, strengthening the research and development of artificial intelligence, exploring more intelligent, efficient, and humanized application methods and technological means of artificial intelligence, can create more value and welfare for humanity. But more importantly, the development and application of artificial intelligence require more management and guidance, supervision and regulation of its technology and applications to ensure that the development of artificial intelligence has a positive impact on human well-being, making it truly an extension and supplement of human intelligence, and creating a better future for humanity.
Intelligent manufacturing
Intelligent manufacturing is the main direction of building a strong manufacturing country and the main battlefield of the digital economy, driving the transformation of China's manufacturing industry model and enterprise form, while outputting intelligent products to improve production efficiency for various industries. On the basis of deepening the integrated innovation and integrated application of the new generation of information technology, China has accelerated the innovation of platformization, customization, and lightweight service models, formed new advantages in emerging digital industries, and accelerated the digitalization process of China's industries. Nowadays, China is at a historic transformation point in both the single cross-section of manufacturing development and the overall economic development. How to transform the development mode and find new advantageous positions in the global industrial chain has become a new topic.
Big data
Data is playing a greater role in our daily lives, with a significant amount of data known as' big 'indicating a constructive shift in the way we obtain insights from data. With the increasing improvement of the big data industry chain, China's big data industry has gradually formed a competitive pattern dominated by data resource oriented, technology owned, and application service oriented. Traditional industries such as finance, communication, retail, healthcare, and transportation have also shown new vitality under the transformation of big data, with changes in production methods and management models gradually moving towards networking, digitization, and intelligence. Big data, along with other new technologies such as cloud computing and AI, is driving the world towards a more detailed and specific direction. Similarly, it has also been given a strategic resource status by China, with important expectations.
Computing power chip
In the first quarter of 2023, the phenomenon level product ChatGPT conversational artificial intelligence robot became popular worldwide, and the information related to the hardware technology and computing chips required behind it also became the focus of attention. In recent years, due to chip technology lockdowns in countries such as the United States, China's computing chip industry has also accelerated breakthroughs in technological difficulties. Although there is a gap in the chip level of domestic manufacturers compared to NVIDIA's A100 and H100, with the continuous investment of technology, funds, and policies, the gap is gradually narrowing. Of course, in order to narrow the gap, in addition to highly intensive investment in capital and manpower, rapid technological change and structural innovation are also required. When the speed of technological change and the implementation of original innovation in the structure reach a certain level, the healthy development of the industry and the acquisition of advanced technology will be easier to achieve.
Blockchain
In terms of technology, blockchain technology will continue to develop and improve, such as higher performance, better privacy protection, more intelligent contracts, etc. Blockchain technology will also be combined with other technologies such as AI, Internet of Things, big data, etc. to achieve more application scenarios; On the market side, the blockchain market will continue to expand, involving digital currency, supply chain finance, the Internet of Things, digital identity authentication, copyright protection and other fields, but will also face more competition and cooperation, such as public and private chains, centralization and decentralization; In terms of policy, the government will strengthen the supervision and support of blockchain technology, such as strengthening the supervision of digital currency, promoting the development of supply chain finance, establishing a digital identity authentication system, and strengthening the security and privacy protection of blockchain technology. In short, the development of blockchain is a process full of opportunities and challenges. The future of blockchain technology is deeply integrating various industry fields with the breadth of "blockchain+", promoting the establishment of an ecosystem centered on blockchain, and ultimately becoming an important branch of emerging industries.
Energy storage industry
If we say that in 2021, the policy system for China's energy storage industry has been preliminarily established, and the energy storage market has entered a truly large-scale development stage; In 2022, under the dual dividend of policy acceleration and market demand, the energy storage industry has achieved unprecedented prosperity. In 2022, China has introduced over 600 energy storage related policies at the national and local levels, covering energy storage planning, market mechanisms, technology research and development, safety regulations, and other fields. At present, China provides 90% of global emergency energy storage products and has become the world's largest producer and exporter of portable energy storage.
Ultra-high voltage
Ultra high voltage transmission has the characteristics of large transmission capacity, long distance, low losses, and small land occupation, playing a leading role in energy optimization configuration. At present, China's ultra-high voltage network not only solves the problem of power transmission from the west to the east, but also plays a huge role in promoting the large-scale development of resources and economic development in the west, and also creates possibilities for the power output of the the Belt and Road. In the context of "dual carbon", the country is increasing efforts to plan and construct a new energy supply and consumption system based on large-scale wind and solar power bases, supported by clean, efficient, advanced, and energy-saving coal-fired power, and supported by stable, safe, and reliable ultra-high voltage transmission and transformation lines.
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is seen as a technological revolution following the mobile internet, with the core idea of connecting physical objects into the network and ultimately achieving comprehensive information exchange between things and people. In addition to technological advantages, various IoT devices such as intelligent speakers that communicate with humans, intelligent lighting fixtures that can sense the human body, automatic navigation sweeping robots, and remotely controlled intelligent plugins will overturn people's previous lives. And with the widespread deepening of technology, besides the consumer internet, various new models and formats such as the Internet of Things, education, healthcare, and transportation are constantly emerging, and a new era of the Internet of Things is about to begin. After years of continuous penetration, the Internet of Things technology has gradually been applied to many fields such as smart industry, smart agriculture, smart liquor travel, smart elderly care, smart retail, smart energy, smart transportation and travel. Not only does it provide effective solutions for enterprises to reduce costs and increase efficiency, but it also makes people's lives more diverse and high-quality.
Industrial Internet
In the first quarter of 2022, the scale of China's Industrial Internet industry broke through the trillion mark for the first time. Industrial Internet has been widely used in 45 major categories of the national economy, such as R&D, design, production and manufacturing, and operation management. In particular, "5G+Industrial Internet" is accelerating its extension to production control. The total number of projects under construction of "5G+Industrial Internet" nationwide has reached 2400. As the key infrastructure, new application mode and new industrial ecology for the deep integration of the new generation of information and communication technology and industrial economy, Industrial Internet has gradually become the "golden key" for high-quality development of industrial economy. Digital China has pressed the accelerator button. Over the past year, the Internet of Things, intelligent manufacturing, computing chips, Industrial Internet, metauniverse, artificial intelligence and other hot spots have been colorful. In the annual Report on the Work of the Government, the "digital economy" has appeared for the sixth time this year. At the just concluded National Two Sessions, more than 50 deputies to the National People's Congress and CPPCC members made suggestions and proposals involving the "digital economy" and "digitalization". Digitalization is the greatest certainty of the future economy.