On July 4, the 2023 Global Digital Economy Conference opened in Beijing. Wang Jiangping, member of the Party Leading Group and Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.

In recent years, with the joint efforts of all parties, China’s digital economy has achieved positive results. The advantages of new infrastructure development have been further consolidated. By the end of May this year, a total of 2.844 million 5G base stations had been built, more than 2.05 billion cellular Internet of Things end users, the total number of IPv6 address resources ranked first in the world, and the computing infrastructure reached the world’s leading level. The integration of the digital economy and the real economy continues to accelerate. The numerical control rate of key processes in key industrial enterprises has reached 59.4%, and more than 62,000 enterprises across the country have carried out the integration of the two management systems, and accumulated more than 1,700 digital workshops and smart factories. Core industries of the digital economy continue to grow. In the first five months of this year, China’s software business revenue exceeded 4.3 trillion yuan and information technology services revenue was 2.84 trillion yuan, injecting vitality into technological innovation and economic and social development.

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Wang Jiangping said that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will earnestly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee and The State Council, accelerate the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, and jointly promote digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, so that the digital economy can better empower entities, serve society and benefit the people. We will accelerate the construction of new infrastructure, promote the systematic development and large-scale deployment of digital infrastructure, and accelerate the construction of intelligent and comprehensive digital information infrastructure that is ubiquitous, integrated with heaven and earth, integrated with cloud networks, intelligent and agile, green and low-carbon, safe and controllable. We will promote the digital transformation of industries, vigorously promote the integrated application of 5G, gigabit optical networks and other next-generation information and communication technologies in vertical industries, information consumption, social livelihood and other fields, and form a demonstration benchmark for innovative applications in key areas. We will strengthen the driving force for digital development, accelerate the innovation and development of strategic emerging industries such as big data, artificial intelligence and smart connected vehicles, vigorously develop advanced manufacturing, promote a stronger, better and bigger digital economy, and foster new economic engines.

Co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, the Cyberspace Administration of China and the China Association for Science and Technology, with the theme of “Data-driven Development and Intelligence Leading the Future”, the conference aims to stimulate the vitality of global digital technology innovation, promote industrial digital transformation, and build an important platform for international exchanges and cooperation in the digital economy. Representatives of relevant countries, diplomatic envoys in China, international sister cities, industry, experts and scholars attended the conference.