The scale of Beijing's digital economy is entering a rapid growth channel, achieving simultaneous development of quantity and quality.
On August 6, at the 2021 Shell Finance Summer Summit, Beijing News Shell Finance and China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (hereinafter referred to as the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology) released the "Beijing Digital Economy Research Report (2021)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Report"), which provides insight into the trends and opportunities of Beijing in the era of digital economy.
The Report shows that in 2020, the scale of Beijing's digital economy will rank first in the country as a proportion of GDP. At the same time, the penetration of the three industries of Beijing's digital economy has accelerated. In 2020, the penetration rate of the digital economy in the tertiary industry in Beijing was 43.4%, the penetration rate of the digital economy in the secondary industry was 22.1%, and the penetration rate of the agricultural digital economy was 5.8%, all of which were higher than the national average except for agriculture.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the digital economy has gradually risen to a national strategy. In this context, Beijing actively responds to the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on vigorously promoting the development of the digital economy, strives to lead and empower the development of the domestic digital economy, and builds Beijing into a benchmark city for the global digital economy.
According to the report, the number of digital economy policies in Beijing has grown rapidly, paying great attention to the development of digital industry, and seizing the development opportunities of cutting-edge technologies such as new energy, 5G, and blockchain. In 2017, the Beijing Municipal Government issued a total of 2 digital economy-related policies, 9 in 2018, 19 in 2019, and a blowout in 2020, with a total of 58 digital economy-related policies.
The scale of the digital economy as a proportion of GDP ranks first in the country
11 of the top 30 Internet companies by market capitalization are in Beijing
The "Report" shows that from the perspective of scale, the scale of Beijing's digital economy will reach 2.0 trillion yuan in 2020, ranking 6th in the country, higher than the GDP ranking of 7 places in the same period. In terms of proportion, Beijing's digital economy accounted for 55.9% of GDP, ranking first in the country, surpassing Guangdong (47.2%) and Shanghai (55.1%).
From the perspective of growth rate, the growth rate of Beijing's digital economy in 2020 will be as high as 9.2%, higher than the nominal GDP growth rate of 7.1 points in the same period, higher than That of Shanghai (8.6%), Guangdong (7.0%) and other economically developed provinces and cities.
It is worth mentioning that Beijing's digital economy structure continues to be optimized. In 2020, the scale of digital industrialization in Beijing was 680.8 billion yuan, accounting for 11.5% of GDP in 2008 to 18.9% in 2020.
Industrial digitalization has become a key engine driving Beijing's digital economic growth, with a scale of 1,337.1 billion yuan, accounting for 37.0% of GDP from 8.9% in 2008 to 37.0% in 2020.
In fact, Beijing has a number of advantages in the development of the digital economy. According to the report, Beijing's R&D investment ranks first in the country, and its high-end R&D resources, academic research environment, and innovative enterprises have outstanding performance. As one of the world's top ten science and technology innovation centers, Beijing has 29,000 national high-tech enterprises and 93 unicorn enterprises, accounting for half of the country and ranking first among the world's cities. In 2019, Beijing's high-tech industries and strategic emerging industries developed rapidly, and the added value increased by 56.9% and 58.5% respectively. In 2019, Beijing had 486 artificial intelligence companies, accounting for 39% of the country, and surpassed Silicon Valley in the United States.
In this environment, Beijing's digital industrialization innovation is active, and it has also become one of the high-end digital industry highlands in the country. The comprehensive strength of Beijing's Internet industry is strong, and 11 of the top 30 Internet companies in China are located in Beijing, including Meituan, JD.com, Baidu, ByteDance and other leading enterprises. The electronic information manufacturing industry has some leading enterprises, and BOE, Lenovo, Xiaomi, SMIC and other enterprises lead the country.
The telecommunications industry has developed steadily, with the headquarters of the five major telecom operators located in Beijing. The software and information technology service industry leads the country, achieving operating income of 1.3 trillion yuan in 2019, accounting for 23.0% of the country, and the added value of the whole industry is 478.39 billion yuan, accounting for 13.5% of the city's GDP.
In addition, Beijing is leading by industrial digital empowerment, with the advantages of high-end capabilities of the industrial Internet, the first advantage of modern service industry and the advantages of modern agricultural innovation, and is one of the output places of the national industrial digitalization program; for example, Beijing Industrial Internet has made innovative breakthroughs, with national top nodes, access to 17 secondary nodes, and the number of logo registrations exceeds 2.27 billion, ranking first in the country. The rate of industrial enterprises above designated size in the city is more than 40%, and the number of users on the cloud and platform for small and medium-sized enterprises exceeds 200,000. Beijing actively promotes the electronic trading of agricultural products, among the top 20 agricultural e-commerce enterprises in the country, 10 companies such as COFCO I Buy Network and Ben Life Network are headquartered in Beijing, and the retail sales of Agricultural Products Network in Beijing reached 36.16 billion yuan in 2019, ranking third in the country. "Internet + agricultural production" continues to advance, in 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs announced 150 "Internet + cloud platform for agricultural technology promotion" projects, Beijing has 35, accounting for more than 20%.
Beijing is divided into 57,000 management grids, covering 16 districts, 330 streets (townships), and 6,232 communities, focusing on supervising more than 6.07 million urban components in 7 categories and 101 sub-categories. As the digital medical service platform of China's first Internet hospital, Beijing WeDoctor General Practice Clinic has connected more than 7,800 hospitals, more than 270,000 registered doctors, a total of 220 million registered users, and 27 Internet hospitals, of which 17 can be directly settled through medical insurance, making it the largest digital medical service platform in China. Through intelligent urban management, intelligent market supervision, intelligent transportation integration, and sustainable urban planning, Beijing has doubled its efficiency in digital governance and promoted the modernization of the capital's governance system and governance capabilities.
In terms of data labeling, data confirmation, data transactions, data openness and data zone, Beijing also actively explores, first try, the existing data labeling head enterprises have 75% headquarters in Beijing, leading the development of the data labeling industry, becoming the industry growth pole, through technology and business links, the data labeling industry has formed a T-shaped market structure, resulting in three growth belts: the ring Beijing industrial cluster, the ring Yangtze River Delta industrial group, the ring Chengdu-Chongqing industrial cluster. By the end of 2020, the total number of open public data in Beijing has reached 9,214 datasets and a total of 5.53 billion data records. At present, the total amount of open public data and the number of unconditionally open public data sets in Beijing are at the forefront of the country.
Multi-dimensional polar core development, to build a global digital economy benchmark city
Beijing's 14th Five-Year Plan proposes to "build an internationally competitive digital industry cluster and build a benchmark city for the global digital economy". From the aspects of digital industrialization, industrial digitalization, digital governance, and data value, we will explore the formation of a new development pattern with the characteristics of the capital.
In terms of digital industrialization, Beijing focuses on the construction of digital infrastructure such as 5G and new infrastructure, and continues to optimize the information industry and other advantageous areas to strengthen the leading edge of digital industrialization. At present, Beijing has opened 56,400 5G base stations, realizing 5G network coverage in the capital's functional core areas, urban sub-centers, important functional areas, and important places ahead of schedule. At the same time, the development of blockchain innovation is also accelerating, Beijing has a first-mover advantage in blockchain development, with 189 blockchain companies, the future blockchain will be Beijing's key cultivation industry, the development space is broad.
In order to build a global digital economy benchmark city, Beijing will build a digital economy polar core development model from multiple dimensions, at the meeting, Hu Yanni, engineer of the Institute of Policy and Economics of the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology, introduced the "Beijing model" of digital economy development from five aspects: policy core, innovation core, location core, factor core, and governance core.
In terms of innovation core, Beijing focuses on the innovation of technology, system, talent and ecology, and strengthens the core position of innovation in the field of digital economy. In addition, Beijing should rely on the location advantage of the central area of the Northeast Asian economic circle and the Eurasian land bridge to do a good job in coordinating production factors, productivity and production relations.
In terms of urban governance, Beijing should use digitalization to empower urban construction, continuously deepen the degree of rule of law, standardization, intelligence, specialization and socialization, and create accurate urban management.
Technical capabilities need to be improved, and it is necessary to focus on the "card neck" link of the industrial chain supply chain
Beijing has achieved positive results in promoting the development of the digital economy, but it still faces some challenges in the environment of rapid development and change, including the key core technology capabilities of the digital economy that need to be improved. At present, Beijing's digital economy is relatively weak in the "innovation end" and "basic end", especially in the key devices" problem of "card neck".
In addition, the depth and breadth of the integration of digital technology and the real economy need to be expanded. Digital technology can not only stay on the surface, only by making the integration of digital technology and traditional industries more deeply, planning from the height of enterprise development strategy, can we truly release the potential of the digital economy and improve the efficiency of traditional industries. At present, the market-oriented allocation of data elements in Beijing is still in its infancy, and there are still many bottlenecks and restrictions in data confirmation, openness, circulation, trading, supervision, etc., which need to be continuously improved in development.
With the development of the digital economy, the demand for hot talents in digital technology has changed from "quantity" to "quality", and Beijing also has the problem of insufficient support for high-level talents in the digital economy, and needs compound talents, application talents and leading talents that can better adapt to the development of deep integration.
The "Report" suggests that in terms of infrastructure construction, Beijing should build a "new infrastructure" digital base to provide strong support for the development of the digital economy; in the digital industry, it is necessary to focus on the "card neck" link of the industrial chain supply chain, strengthen the communication technology industry, and strengthen the new generation of information technology innovation drive, including 5G/6G, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc. In terms of industrial digitalization, it is necessary to take the manufacturing and service industries as the focus of digital transformation, release the amplification, superposition and multiplication effect of digital on economic development, promote digital technology into the countryside, and accelerate the deep integration of digital economy and agricultural and rural economy.
In addition, in terms of digital governance, Beijing should accelerate the construction of smart cities and digital governments, gradually improve the integrated online government service platform, and promote the development of integrated applications of digital economy consumption. At the same time, with smart transportation and smart medical care as the starting point, we will deepen the upgrading of smart city efficiency. It is also necessary to pay attention to promoting the cultivation of data element markets so that data can flow safely and orderly.
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