Abstract: Building Digital countryside is an inevitable requirement to further promote the innovation and development of digital economy. At present, bridging the digital divide between urban and rural areas should be the dominant direction of building digital countryside. The digital divide between urban and rural areas includes three dimensions, which are digital access, digital use and digital resources. In recent years, the main manifestation shows in the following three aspects. Firstly, the digitalization level of agricultural industries lags behind that of non-agricultural industries. Secondly, there is a gap between the digitalization level of rural governance as well as public services and that of cities. Thirdly, rural residents need to improve their digital literacy, as well as the opportunity and ability to use information resources. Five measures should be taken, which are planning the coordinated development of urban and rural digitalization, strengthening the construction of rural digital infrastructure, accelerating the transformation of rural digitalization, promoting agricultural digitalization, and enhancing the digitalization level of rural public services.
