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China Netcom’s technological innovation achieves overall leadership

2022-07-13

At the press conference of the 5th Digital China Construction Summit on July 5, the deputy director of the State Internet Information Office said that in the past five years, the construction of Digital China has made significant progress under the series of plans of the Party and the State Council and the promotion and implementation of relevant departments.

 

my country’s Internet and information technology innovation has made a historic breakthrough, achieving overall leadership in technology, industry and application. It has maintained high-performance computing in the independent research and development of chips, and steadily improved its independent research and development capabilities. At the same time, a large number of unicorn companies have emerged in the fields of artificial intelligence, quantum information, blockchain and other fields, making a new leap in digital innovation capabilities. At the same time, all prefecture-level cities have fully built optical network cities, the scale of gigabit users has exceeded 50 million, and digital infrastructure has achieved leapfrog development.

 

The scale of my country’s digital economy has grown from 27 trillion to over 45 trillion from 2017 to 2021, ranking second in the world. The scale of the electronic information manufacturing industry has increased to 14.1 trillion yuan, the scale of the software industry has increased to 9.5 trillion yuan, and the total revenue of the three basic telecom operators has increased to 1.61 trillion yuan. The rapid development of the digital economy and the rapid expansion of the industry scale , effectively supported the economic development under the epidemic, accelerated the development of the digital process, and accelerated the release of the momentum of the digital economy.

 

 

 

Under the digital anti-epidemic, digital government service management has also been significantly improved, allowing nearly 90% of provincial-level administrative licensing items to be accepted online and “run at most once”. The number of netizens in my country has increased from 772 million to 1.032 billion, and the Internet penetration rate has risen to 73%, promoting preferential educational resources to benefit more families.

 

The establishment of the national unified medical insurance information platform has realized the self-service filing and hospitalization settlement for cross-provincial and remote medical treatment. The advancement of digital village construction allows urban and rural residents to share the fruits of digital development. It has accelerated the sharing of data between departments and central and local governments, and played an important supporting role in economic development under epidemic prevention and control.

 

With the development of the digital network environment becoming more and more perfect, the healthy development of the platform economy has been steadily improved, and the legitimate rights and interests of market entities and the people have also been better protected. It is believed that through the advocacy of a series of international cooperation initiatives, digital understanding international cooperation will be steadily expanded, a multi-level global digital partnership will be forged, and a community of shared future in cyberspace will be jointly built.