The "Government Work Report" emphasizes that "Digitalization will be sped up to create new strengths for the digital economy. We will both develop digital industry and transform traditional industries with digital technologies. We will work faster to develop a digital society, digital government, and healthy digital ecosystem as we pursue the Digital China initiative." Building the advantages of the digital economy has become a powerful engine and strategic choice for China to build a new development pattern in the future.1. The advantages of the digital economy have become a distinctive feature and background color of the new development stageThe sudden global pandemic has forced and accelerated the digitalization process in production, distribution, exchange, and consumption activities. According to the "White Paper on China's Digital Economy Development (2020)", the scale of China's digital economy in 2019 reached 35.8 trillion, accounting for 36.2% of that year's GDP, indicating that the digital economy has become a significant feature of China's new economic development stage.2. The digital economy demonstrates the theoretical logic and practical results of the new development philosophyThe digital economy demonstrates the theoretical logic and practical results of innovation, coordination, greenness, openness, and sharing.3. Build a new development pattern and create new advantages in the digital economyIt is necessary to promote top-level design and planning, research and application of technological innovation, infrastructure construction, industry cultivation, and construction of a digital economy ecosystem to create a good growth atmosphere for the digital economy.
