Develop digital trade and achieve win-win cooperation

Release time : 2020-11-23

Create a new future for the digital economy

Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Xiao Yaqing

Comply with the development trend of digitization, networking, and intelligence, work together to eliminate the "digital divide" and promote the digitalization of service trade

At present, data has become an important factor of production and a new engine that promotes the quality, efficiency, and power changes of economic development. Data flow drives the flow of technology, capital, and talent, promotes resource allocation optimization and total factor productivity improvement, and will have a profound impact on economic development, social progress, improvement of people's livelihood, and national governance. We must follow the development trend of digitalization, networking, and intelligence, and work together to eliminate the "digital divide" and promote the digitalization of service trade.

The Chinese government has always attached great importance to the development of the digital economy. In recent years, the industrial and information systems have resolutely implemented the spirit of General Secretary Jinping’s important instructions and promoted the leapfrog development of my country’s digital economy, which is mainly manifested in the following aspects: first, the total amount of the digital economy has jumped to a new level, and the second is The foundation of digital industrialization is more solid. The third is the acceleration of the industrial digitalization process, and the fourth is the steady progress of international cooperation in the digital economy.

2020 is the closing year of the "13th Five-Year Plan" and the foundation year for starting a new journey for the country's "14th Five-Year Plan". The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, thoroughly implement General Secretary Jinping’s important instructions on the digital economy and the spirit of the important speech at the opening ceremony of the Service Trade Fair, and fully implement the new development concept. Promote the high-quality development of my country's digital economy.

One is to promote digital industrialization. Plan the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the high-quality development of big data, software, information and communication industries, and clarify the development goals and tasks under the new situation. Cultivate the ecology of the software industry and promote industry clustering. Accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure and promote large-scale commercial deployment of 5G.

The second is to promote industrial digitization. Promote the in-depth integration of informatization and industrialization, in-depth implementation of the industrial Internet innovation and development strategy, and accelerate the digital, network, and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry. Promote the construction of industrial Internet big data centers, activate the potential of industrial big data resource elements, and cultivate data-driven new formats and new models.

The third is service digital governance. Promote national standards for data management capabilities and establish an evaluation system for corporate data management capabilities. Deepen the reform of “delegating control, delegating control to service” and cultivating the market of data elements in accordance with the principle of tolerance and prudence, and stimulating the vitality of market innovation. Strengthen data and network security, and comprehensively improve data service capabilities.

The fourth is to deepen open cooperation. Strengthen international exchanges and cooperation, implement the results of the G20 Digital Economy Ministerial Conference, actively organize the China-ASEAN Digital Economy Year series of activities, actively participate in the BRICS, China-Russia, China-EU multilateral and bilateral mechanisms, and contribute Chinese wisdom to the development of digital economy And the Chinese program.

Global digital trade provides strong impetus and broad space for the growth of the digital economy. This summit forum provides a good platform for building consensus on development and promoting cooperation between all parties. We are willing to uphold the concept of open cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win, and work together with everyone to create a new future for the development of the digital economy.

Create a new engine for digital trade

Huai Jinpeng, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, Executive Vice Chairman, and First Secretary of the Secretariat of the China Association for Science and Technology

Digital trade is the product of the deep integration and co-evolution of digital technology, economy and society, and social organizations play an indispensable role in it

Human society is accelerating into the era of digital economy. China is focusing on technological innovation, service trade and the development of the digital economy, building a high-level open platform, and building a new pattern of higher-level reform and opening up. At present, digitalization has become a strong driving force leading the vigorous development of service trade. At the same time, the division of labor in the global digital industry is far from being formed, the industrial structure is still being adjusted, and digital trade rules are still unclear. Discussing the status quo, development prospects and opportunities of global digital trade is of great significance. There are three considerations.

First, digital trade is a symbol of the digital age, a symbol of technological empowerment, and the direction of future trade development. Digitization, networking, and intelligence are in the ascendant, driving the service industry to increasingly dominate the economy. The position of digital technology in the service trade has become increasingly prominent. According to statistics from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the global public cloud service market in 2019 increased by 26% year-on-year, and more than half of the global service trade has been digitized. The spread of the epidemic has made international trade face severe challenges, and digitalization has become the hope for reducing the impact of the epidemic and hedging the economic downturn.

Second, global trust and cooperation are the cornerstone of digital trade. We need to jointly build a digital governance system, promote the coordination of digital trade rules at the multilateral and regional levels, and strengthen organizational and institutional innovation for privacy protection, data security, data confirmation, digital taxation, and data law. Share the fruits of digital trade. The global digitalization process cannot ignore traditional small and medium-sized enterprises and disadvantaged groups. It is necessary to support young people in innovation and entrepreneurship, bridge the digital divide, and advocate inclusive civilization. Promote open source and openness. Build a trust network and open source community together, encourage open cooperation, and enhance human welfare with digital technology and digital trade.

Third, digital trade is a product of the deep integration and co-evolution of digital technology, economy and society. Social organizations play an indispensable role in promoting cross-border integration, aggregating innovative resources, activating innovation momentum, and creating industry ecology. Can play an irreplaceable role. The China Association for Science and Technology is an organization of the Chinese Science and Technology Community. It has 210 national societies in natural sciences, engineering technology, and cross-fields. It has established cooperative relationships with 374 international science and technology organizations and connected international innovation networks. This year the China Association for Science and Technology launched the "Science and Innovation China" brand to organize innovation and pool resources so that "mayors" can find markets and scientists can find entrepreneurs. The Association for Science and Technology to facilitate the development of digital trade is to promote cross-industry collaboration, build digital technology services and trading platforms, and build a new digital economy ecosystem. The second is to cultivate digital talents and help the growth of digital economy talents through channels such as academic exchanges, talent recommendation, and professional training. The third is to expand open cooperation. Carry out non-governmental scientific and technological exchanges, deepen cooperation with international and national scientific and technological organizations, and jointly build a global digital trade and governance system.

Let us work together to revitalize digital trade, build a new engine, and work together to create a better future of global service and mutual benefit.

Accelerate the cultivation and growth of new business formats

Ji Lin, Secretary and Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the CPPCC

To seize the opportunity, accelerate the development of new business forms and models represented by digital trade, and create new growth poles that promote economic and social development.

At present, a wave of digitization with a new generation of information and communication technology as the main driving force is booming, the scale of digital industrialization is expanding, and the trend of industrial digitization is strong, promoting the digital economy and digital trade to become the new engine of global economic development. In particular, this year's sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic has greatly changed people's production and lifestyles, and brought uncertainties to the economic stability and trade growth of countries around the world. Online shopping, online education and other fields have achieved rapid growth, and digital technology solutions and digital trade have gradually become popular, injecting new momentum into economic recovery, opening up new spaces, and also changing the consumption and living habits of ordinary people, and promoting digital trade as the core The era of digital globalization is accelerating. We must firmly grasp the opportunities of the booming new technology and the development of the digital economy, accelerate the development of new business models and models represented by digital trade, and create new growth poles that promote economic and social development.

As a national science and technology innovation center, in recent years, Beijing has taken the development of digital economy and digital trade as a strategic choice to promote the high-quality development of the city, promoted the formation of a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles mutually promoting each other. New advantages for participating in international cooperation and competition under the circumstances. In 2019, Beijing's digital economy accounted for more than 50% of GDP, ranking first in the country. 22 Beijing companies entered the "2019 China Top 50 Big Data Companies" list, accounting for 44% of the country, ranking first in the country in number. In addition, Zhongguancun Software Park, as a high-tech industrial park with dual qualifications as a national software industry base and a national software export base, gathers more than 600 well-known IT corporate headquarters and global R&D centers at home and abroad. In 2019, the total output value of the park enterprises reached 286.98 billion yuan , The output value per square kilometer exceeded 100 billion yuan. At present, the digital transformation of Beijing's industry continues to deepen. The cloud and platform rate of industrial enterprises above designated size in the city exceeds 40%, and there are more than 200,000 small and medium-sized enterprises.

On June 10 this year, the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Government issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Cultivation and Growth of New Business Forms and New Models to Promote the High-quality Development of Beijing’s Economy" and 5 supporting documents, focusing on new infrastructure, new scenarios, new consumption, new openings, New services, respectively, put forward practical measures to expand new business formats and new models and policy guarantee programs with full gold content. Facing the future, Beijing will further accelerate the construction of high-quality digital trade demonstration areas, relying on the National Digital Service Export Base of Zhongguancun Software Park, Jinzhan International Cooperation Service Zone, and Daxing Airport Area of Free Trade Zone to build a digital trade pilot zone. Fully promote blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data and other technologies to empower all aspects of production and trading, cultivate a group of leading digital economy companies and unicorn companies with global influence and market leadership, and build sustainable stability, openness and prosperity Global digital trading system.

Create an enabling environment to explore Chinese solutions

Deputy Minister of Commerce Wang Bingnan

The next step will follow safe and orderly, open innovation, classified management, and rule guidance

Basic principles, step up to form a digital trade China program

In recent years, with the in-depth application of modern information technology on a global scale and the rapid development of the digital economy, Internet-based digital trade has flourished, driving the global innovation chain, industrial chain and value chain to accelerate the optimization and integration, and it is becoming the digital age Important trade method.

The world today is undergoing a broader and deeper technological revolution and industrial transformation. On the one hand, digital trade can strengthen the sharing of knowledge and technological elements among various industries through data flow, lead the collaborative integration of various industries, drive the digital transformation of traditional industries and extend to the high-end of the global value chain; on the other hand, digital technology brings disruptive innovation , Has spawned a large number of new trade formats and new models, and greatly improved the status of the global value chain.

During the epidemic prevention and control period, digital office, digital medical, digital government, digital education, digital entertainment and other fields have played an important role in ensuring people's production and living, preventing the spread of the epidemic, and strengthening global economic and trade cooperation. In the future, digital trade will surely become an important starting point for promoting my country's opening to the outside world towards a better pattern, deeper level, and higher level.

The Chinese government attaches great importance to the development of digital trade. In November 2019, the "Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Promoting High-quality Trade Development" formally proposed to accelerate the development of digital trade. Currently, the scale of China's digital trade is growing rapidly. The digital industry, which is highly related to information and communication technology, has become the most dynamic sector driving China's economic growth. In 2016, China promulgated the Cyber Security Law, which explored pilot projects to conduct cross-border data security assessments in pilot free trade zones such as Hainan and Shanghai. Shanghai, Beijing and other places actively researched and formulated action plans to promote the development of digital trade, and digital governance has accumulated effective experience.

In the next step, the Ministry of Commerce will follow the basic principles of safety and order, open innovation, classified management, and rule guidance, further clarify the development positioning of China's digital trade, study and propose a digital trade strategic layout and work measures suitable for my country's national conditions, and actively create The governance environment for the development of digital trade is to promptly form a digital trade China plan.

Focus on digital technology, light up quality life

Chen Shengqiang, CEO of JD Digital Technology Group

Create a sustainable lifestyle service platform for residents' food, housing, transportation, travel, shopping, entertainment and other life scenarios

Promoting the construction of digital and intelligent cities is not only for the pursuit of safer, stable, and high-quality social governance, but also for further promoting industrial growth and improving people's livelihood. In recent years, JD Digital has proposed a "one core and two wings" system based on a smart city operating system to help the government build a smart city, and more efficiently realize business and benefit the people. This system is a big data and AI platform specifically for cities that integrates collection, storage, management, analysis, and visualization. It can collect data from the entire city to achieve data security and open up data for residents' food, housing, transportation, travel, For life scenarios such as shopping and entertainment, we will create a sustainable lifestyle service platform to help businesses attract customers, reduce costs and increase efficiency, and illuminate quality life. At the same time, it provides professional, standardized, intelligent, and platform-based AI component services for the construction of smart cities, allowing many companies to participate in the construction of smart cities.

Improve development quality and release development potential

Li Daokui, Dean of China Institute of Economic Thought and Practice, Tsinghua University

Need to further share experience and wisdom in the field of digital economy with countries around the world

At present, China's economy is gradually forming a new development pattern in which the domestic cycle is the main body and the domestic and international double cycles promote each other. On the one hand, it is necessary to focus on the improvement and release of domestic demand based on the domestic market; on the other hand, it is also necessary to continuously promote higher-quality opening to the outside world to improve the quality and level of economic development. In this process, improving service trade is of great significance to promoting high-quality opening up. At present, we still have broad development space and upward potential in the field of service trade. At the same time, relying on the experience and self-confidence that China has accumulated in the process of opening to the outside world over the years, the majority of Chinese enterprises in the service trade field have the ability and confidence to raise their quality and level to new heights in the future, and more calmly and actively participate in related fields. International competition and cooperation.

In the future, the development of digital trade will become one of the bright spots and key links in the high-quality opening up process of service trade in my country under the new development pattern. In order to further release the development potential of digital trade, one is to strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and create a good environment for enterprises and users; the other is to pay attention to the protection of personal privacy, and to properly handle the relationship between information collection efficiency and privacy data protection, both Effectively protect personal privacy and security, while giving full play to the public service attributes of data products; third, we must attach importance to network security, and create a reasonable and appropriate digital economy life experience for users on the premise of ensuring network security and public safety.

We need to further share experience and wisdom in the field of digital economy with countries around the world, and gradually form common guidelines for international digital trade and even the development of digital economy in cooperation, and create a good atmosphere and environment for the future development of digital economy in all countries.

Break down technical barriers and promote open cooperation

Former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Joseph E. Stiglitz

In order to promote the development of digital trade, it is not only necessary to remove technical restrictions, but also to work hard to eliminate human barriers

In recent years, global digital trade has achieved rapid development. In order to promote the development of digital trade, it is not only necessary to eliminate technological restrictions, but also to work hard to eliminate man-made barriers and obstacles and jointly create an inclusive, open and cooperative environment.

One is to improve taxation policies. At present, many countries are seeking communication on relevant taxation policies and systems. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Monetary Fund are also encouraging such cooperation. However, an international agreement is still to be reached on the issue of how to tax digital trade.

The second is to encourage fair competition. At present, global competition regulatory agencies have yet to be established, and the corresponding global regulatory system urgently needs to be established and improved. It must be admitted that a well-functioning economic market and competition mechanism are of great significance to the promotion of sustainable and healthy social and economic development.

Competition will lead to vicious competition among a few large companies in the world, which will affect the order of the consumer market.

The third is to avoid competition and abuse. Various competition abuses will have an adverse impact on the development of global digital trade. In this regard, we must use the correct way to regulate and restrict. However, the relevant policies and regulations of various countries are very different, and it is urgent for all countries to work together to establish common international standards, draw a consistent red line of behavior, and avoid vicious competition regardless of the bottom line.

The fourth is to protect data security. Digital trade involves many security issues, and data security is an important one. Take the field of artificial intelligence as an example. Companies in countries and regions with fewer data access regulations are less transparent in data use than companies with higher and more data access standards. This opacity will cause anxiety about the security of digital trade, and even induce extreme preventive behaviors, adding obstacles to the development of digital trade.


"People's Daily" (version 05, September 06, 2020)


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