Digitalization is reshaping all aspects of today's world, and the release of the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Digital Economy (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") shows that the mainland has long regarded the digital economy as a new engine of economic growth. Through the planned mission deployment, we can gain insight into the general trend of the development of the digital economy in the coming period, as well as the challenges and opportunities it brings.
Digital infrastructure enhances public services and creates smart cities
Digital infrastructure includes information networks, data centers, digital resources, cloud services, etc., which from the national level, it lays the foundation for the full-field digitization of urban management and public services. Smart cities are based on the use of digital infrastructure to achieve refined and dynamic urban management. Specifically, the improvement of public services by digital infrastructure is reflected in the following aspects.
Expand the scope of public digital resource supply to the society, and at the same time build a data middle office, an intelligent middle office, a technology middle office, and a business middle office, open up all kinds of data, and build a city-level data center, so as to optimize the business environment and improve the supervision, management and service efficiency of the city.
Promote cloud computing technology to become a new digital infrastructure, support enterprises to go to the cloud, and make cloud services as accessible as water and electricity. By providing enterprises with cloud service applications, we provide support for cloud construction in various industries, improve the efficiency and level of enterprise management, and promote high-quality economic development.
The role of data elements is highlighted, helping enterprises to make efficient decisions
The digital economy is an economic system in which data is used as a necessary factor of production. In the "Opinions on Building a More Perfect Factor Market-based Allocation System and Mechanism" issued by the state in 2020, it has put forward opinions on accelerating the cultivation of the data element market.
The key to data becoming a factor of production lies in the ability to make full use of and leverage the role and value of data assets in supporting business decisions. The integration and management of fragmented and decentralized data and the realization of data interconnection are the basis for exerting the value of data assets. Data asset management needs to fully integrate business, technology and management to ensure that data assets maintain and increase in value.
To this end, enterprises should establish mechanisms such as plans, programs, processes, methods and procedures for data governance to improve the value of data assets. With the help of digital and intelligent data asset management and data analysis methods, enterprise managers can fully understand the operation of enterprises and existing problems, formulate more targeted enterprise development strategies, and promote scientific and efficient decision-making of enterprises.
Digital transformation has significant benefits, and industrial digitalization needs to be deepened
The fading of the traditional dividend has accelerated the transformation of the business model of enterprises, and successful enterprises with digital transformation have shown obvious competitive advantages. According to ai analysis statistics, the compound growth rate of operating income of digital transformation enterprises in the past three years is 5.5 times that of other enterprises. How to promote the construction of digital transformation and in which areas to take the lead in implementing digital transformation has become the primary issue facing enterprises.
The intelligent transformation of the manufacturing process has greatly improved the production capacity and efficiency. With the help of digital technologies such as the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence, the digital and intelligent management and operation of product design, technology research and development, manufacturing, warehousing, supply chain management, marketing, after-sales service and other processes can be realized, which can greatly shorten the research and development and production cycle, reduce business process costs, and improve business efficiency.
On the other hand, financially driven data elements empowers the digital upgrading of all elements of the industrial chain. The financial department has mastered the core data of enterprise operation, and the popularization of informatization in the financial field has laid a good foundation for digitalization. As the vanguard of digital and intelligent transformation, finance is the most closely integrated with data resources, and it is the focus of promoting industrial digitalization based on data elements to drive business models.
Market opportunities in the era of digital economy
The goals of the "14th Five-Year Plan" digital economy development plan point out that by 2025, the full expansion of the mainland's digital economy should be realized, and the added value of the core industries of the digital economy will account for 10% of GDP. Digitalization, as a huge challenge facing the current era, also brings development opportunities in related fields.
First of all, the development of the digital economy has brought about the needs of security fields including network security, system security, data security, etc. In the environment of big data and cloud computing, network systems and business scenarios have become more complex, and the security of data storage and transmission is directly related to the control of data assets, which makes the challenges of data security in the digital age more severe.
Supporting the research and development and application of security protection technologies and products, and promoting safe and reliable information products, services and solutions, are the inevitable requirements for strengthening the security system of the digital economy.
The new technology and industrial model in the era of digital economy have spawned some new concepts in the field of security. For example, "cloud security" is based on the concept of cloud computing technology application, which is an extension of the traditional information technology security concept in the field of cloud computing, aiming to support the secure storage of data in the public cloud. "Cloud security" is proposed by mainland enterprises, which is unique in the field of international cloud computing, and also brings new industry opportunities in the era of cloud computing.
Second, capital operation in the field of digital technology will usher in new opportunities.
From the perspective of enterprises in the digital technology field, funding is one of the biggest problems facing start-up technology companies. At the national level, measures such as guiding social capital to set up a fund in the field of digital economy with market-oriented operation and supporting qualified digital technology enterprises to enter the capital market for financing have provided more financing channels and opportunities for digital technology enterprises, which is conducive to promoting the overall development of the digital industry.
From the perspective of social capital, the digital industry is entering the stage of large-scale application, all walks of life and have increased investment in digital transformation applications, and the digital technology market has shown a rapid development trend. The benefits of digital technology in terms of increasing efficiency and reducing costs are common to almost all enterprises today. The investment layout in the field of digital industry has become a must for social capital.
Finally, there is a huge demand in the field of digital skills upgrading training today and in the coming period of digital transformation. According to McKinsey data, the current failure rate of enterprise digital transformation is as high as 70%-80%, and one of the factors leading to the failure of enterprise transformation is the lack of digital talent.
According to Ai'ai Analysis, the current learning and training market for digital talents is about 101.4 billion yuan. As the core driving force of the development of the digital economy, the construction of the digital talent echelon of enterprises and the needs of individuals to adapt to digital transformation have spawned a market for digital talent training.
At present, IBM and Berkeley Business School have launched training on digital transformation of human resources and digital leadership. In the future, with the development of digitalization, we will surely enter the era of digitalization for the whole people, so there is a huge market space for digital technology skills training.