The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China"

　　Beijing, 27 Feb (Xinhua) -- Recently, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"), and issued a circular requiring all regions and departments to seriously implement it in light of actual conditions.

　　The Plan points out that building a digital China is an important engine for promoting Chinese-style modernization in the digital era and a strong support for building new national competitive advantages. Accelerating the construction of digital China is of great significance and far-reaching impact on comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　The Plan emphasizes that it is necessary to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thought on cyber power, deeply implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, complete, accurate and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, focus on promoting high-quality development, coordinate development and security, strengthen system concepts and bottom-line thinking, strengthen the overall layout, and follow the strategic path of consolidating the foundation, empowering the overall situation, strengthening capabilities and optimizing the environment. Comprehensively improve the integrity, systematization and synergy of digital China's construction, promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, drive the reform of production, life and governance with digitalization, and inject strong impetus into the comprehensive promotion of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization.

　　The "Plan" proposes that by 2025, a pattern of horizontal integration, vertical connection, coordination and strong coordination will be basically formed, and important progress will be made in the construction of digital China. Digital infrastructure is efficiently connected, the scale and quality of data resources are accelerated, the value of data elements is effectively released, the quality and benefits of the development of the digital economy are greatly enhanced, the level of digital intelligence in government affairs is significantly improved, the construction of digital culture has leapt to a new level, the precision and inclusiveness of digital society has achieved remarkable results, the construction of digital ecological civilization has made positive progress, digital technology innovation has achieved major breakthroughs, application innovation is leading the world, digital security assurance capabilities are comprehensively improved, and the digital governance system is more perfect. International cooperation in the digital field opens up new horizons. By 2035, the level of digital development will enter the forefront of the world, and the construction of digital China will make great achievements. The systematic layout of digital China's construction is more scientific and complete, and the digital development in economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization construction fields is more coordinated and sufficient, which strongly supports the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.

　　The Plan clarifies that the construction of digital China will be laid out in accordance with the overall framework of "2522", that is, consolidate the "two foundations" of digital infrastructure and data resource system, promote the deep integration of digital technology with the "five-in-one" construction of economy, politics, culture, society and ecological civilization, strengthen the "two capabilities" of digital technology innovation system and digital security barrier, and optimize the "two environments" of digital development at home and abroad.

　　The Plan points out that it is necessary to consolidate the foundation of digital China. The first is to open up the arteries of digital infrastructure. Accelerate the coordinated construction of 5G networks and gigabit optical networks, further promote the large-scale deployment and application of IPv6, promote the comprehensive development of the mobile Internet of Things, and vigorously promote the large-scale application of Beidou. The system optimizes the layout of computing power infrastructure, promotes the efficient complementarity and synergy of computing power in the east and west, and guides the reasonable echelon layout of general data centers, supercomputing centers, intelligent computing centers, and edge data centers. Improve the level of application infrastructure as a whole, and strengthen the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional infrastructure. The second is to smooth the circulation of data resources. Establish national data management systems and mechanisms, and complete overall data management bodies at all levels. Promote the aggregation and utilization of public data, and build a national data resource base in important fields such as public health, science and technology, and education. Release the potential of commercial data value, accelerate the establishment of a data property rights system, carry out research on the valuation of data assets, and establish a mechanism for data elements to participate in the distribution according to value contribution.

　　The Plan points out that economic and social development should be fully empowered. The first is to make the digital economy stronger, better and bigger. Cultivate and expand the core industries of the digital economy, research and formulate measures to promote the high-quality development of the digital industry, and build a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness. Promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and accelerate the innovation and application of digital technology in key fields such as agriculture, industry, finance, education, medical care, transportation, and energy. Support the development and growth of digital enterprises, improve the working mechanism for the integration and innovation of large and small enterprises, give play to the guiding role of "green light" investment cases, and promote the standardized and healthy development of platform enterprises. The second is to develop efficient and coordinated digital government. Accelerate the innovation of systems and rules, and improve rules and regulations that are compatible with the construction of digital government affairs. Strengthen digital capacity building, promote information system network interconnection, data sharing on demand, and efficient business collaboration. Improve the level of digital services, accelerate the promotion of "one thing at a time", promote online and offline integration, and strengthen and standardize the management of government mobile Internet applications. The third is to create a confident and prosperous digital culture. Vigorously develop online culture, strengthen the supply of high-quality online cultural products, and guide all kinds of platforms and netizens to create and produce positive, healthy, and upwardly beneficial online cultural products. Promote the digital development of culture, deeply implement the national cultural digitization strategy, build a national cultural big data system, and form a Chinese cultural database. Improve digital cultural service capabilities, create a number of comprehensive digital culture display platforms, and accelerate the development of new cultural enterprises, cultural formats, and cultural consumption models. The fourth is to build an inclusive and convenient digital society. Promote the universalization of digital public services, vigorously implement the national education digitalization strategic action, improve the national smart education platform, develop digital health, and standardize the development of Internet diagnosis and treatment and Internet hospitals. Promote the precision of digital social governance, deeply implement digital rural development actions, and empower rural industry development, rural construction and rural governance with digitalization. Popularize the intelligence of digital life, create a smart and convenient living circle, a new digital consumption format, and an intelligent immersive service experience for the future. The fifth is to build a green and smart digital ecological civilization. Promote smart governance of the ecological environment, accelerate the construction of a smart and efficient ecological environment information system, use digital technology to promote the integrated protection and systematic governance of landscapes, waters, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, improve the three-dimensional "one map" of natural resources and the basic information platform of land and space, and build a smart water conservancy system with digital twin basins as the core. Accelerate the collaborative transformation of digital greening. Advocate a green and smart lifestyle.

　　The Plan points out that it is necessary to strengthen the key capabilities of digital China. The first is to build a self-reliant and self-reliant digital technology innovation system. Improve the new national system for tackling key core technologies under the conditions of the socialist market economy, and strengthen the deep integration of production, education and research led by enterprises. Strengthen the main position of enterprise scientific and technological innovation, and give play to the leading and supporting role of science and technology backbone enterprises. Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, and improve the mechanism for distributing the benefits of intellectual property transformation. The second is to build a credible and controllable digital security barrier. Effectively maintain network security, and improve the system of network security laws, regulations, and policies. Strengthen data security assurance capabilities, establish basic systems for categorical and hierarchical data protection, and complete systems for network data monitoring, early warning, and emergency response.

　　The Plan points out that it is necessary to optimize the digital development environment. The first is to build a fair and standardized digital governance ecosystem. Improve the system of laws and regulations, strengthen the overall coordination of legislation, research and formulate legislative plans in the digital field, and promptly adjust legal systems that do not adapt to digital development in a timely manner and in accordance with procedures. Establish a technical standard system, compile guidelines for digital standards, and accelerate the formulation and revision of application standards such as digital transformation and cross-integration development of various industries. Improve the level of governance, improve the comprehensive network governance system, improve the all-round multi-dimensional comprehensive governance capabilities, and build a scientific, efficient and orderly management network governance grid bureau. Purify cyberspace, carry out in-depth governance of the network ecosystem, promote a series of special actions of "clean and clean" networks, and innovate and promote the construction of network civilization. The second is to build an open and win-win pattern of international cooperation in the digital field. Make overall plans for international cooperation in the digital field, establish an international exchange and cooperation system in the digital field with multi-level coordination, multi-platform support and multi-subject participation, jointly build the "Digital Silk Road" with high quality, and actively develop the "Silk Road E-commerce". Expand the space for international cooperation in the digital field, actively participate in digital cooperation platforms under multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G20, APEC, BRICS, and the SCO, build a new platform for open cooperation in the digital field with high quality, and actively participate in the construction of relevant international rules such as cross-border data flow.

　　The "Plan" emphasizes that it is necessary to strengthen overall planning, promote overall planning, and implement all tasks in a down-to-earth manner. First, strengthen organizational leadership. Adhere to and strengthen the party's overall leadership over the construction of digital China, and under the centralized and unified leadership of the party Central Committee, the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Commission strengthens the overall coordination, overall promotion, and supervision and implementation of the construction of digital China. Give full play to the role of the cybersecurity and informatization committees of local party committees, improve the deliberative coordination mechanism, put digital development in an important position in the work of the region, and earnestly implement responsibilities. In accordance with the division of responsibilities, all relevant departments should improve policies and measures, strengthen resource integration and force coordination, and form a joint force. The second is to improve institutional mechanisms. Establish and improve the overall planning and coordination mechanism for the construction of digital China, timely study and solve major problems in digital development, promote cross-departmental coordination and linkage, and do a good job in supervising and implementing major tasks and projects. Carry out monitoring and evaluation of digital China's development. The construction of digital China will be used as a reference for the assessment and evaluation of relevant party and government leading cadres. The third is to ensure capital investment. Innovate funding support methods and strengthen the overall guidance of all types of funds. Give play to the role of national industry integration as a platform to guide financial resources to support digital development. Encourage and guide capital to participate in the construction of digital China in a standardized manner, and build an investment and financing system with the effective participation of private capital. The fourth is to strengthen talent support. Enhance digital thinking, digital cognition and digital skills of leading cadres and civil servants. Coordinate the layout of a number of disciplines in the digital field, and cultivate innovative, application-oriented and compound talents. Build a digital literacy and skills development cultivation system that covers the whole people and integrates urban and rural areas. Fifth, create a good atmosphere. Promote the participation of institutions of higher learning, research institutions, enterprises, etc. in the construction of digital China, and establish a number of digital China research bases. Coordinate and carry out comprehensive pilot work on digital China construction, and comprehensively integrate reform experiments. We will do a good job in holding major events such as the Digital China Construction Summit, hold a series of high-level domestic and international events in the digital field, promote the concept of digitalization in the hearts of the people, and create a good atmosphere for the whole society to pay attention to and actively participate in the construction of Digital China. (End)