In recent years, the digital economy has entered a period of rapid development, and the digital economy has become a new driving force for the high-quality development of my country's economy. In 2019, my country's digital economy accounted for 36.2% of GDP. At the 2020 Power Big Data Collaborative Innovation Summit Forum held recently, Zhang Xinhong, chief information engineer of the State Information Center, predicted that by 2025, the digital economy will account for 40% of GDP. ~ 45%.

The new crown pneumonia epidemic has put forward higher requirements for the development of the digital economy, and it has also accelerated the growth of the digital economy, playing the role of an accelerator. Affected by the epidemic, digital technology has made great strides in many fields. New models and new formats such as remote office and video conferencing have emerged, and enterprises have gradually become networked and intelligent.

In Zhang Xinhong's view, the future digital economy will have the following development trends: the digital economy will continue to maintain rapid growth; digital transformation will become mainstream; the digital living environment will be further improved; new digital species will emerge in large numbers; new Super platforms are expected to stand out; employment patterns will undergo major changes; and the competitive landscape will undergo major adjustments.

With the advent of 5G, a new round of data explosion is inevitable, and data is the foundation of the digital economy. Zhang Xinhong said that the data economy in a broad sense refers to the sum of data-based economic activities. In the future, all our economic activities will be based on digitization and data support, that is to say, "no data is no economy". In this sense, it can be said that the future economy will all be a data economy.

Zhang Xinhong used eight keywords to summarize the development trend of big data: dataization, data value, data-driven, data fusion, data economy, data capability, data development and data future. In the future, more data value will be discovered and mined. The ensuing data may bring five functional effects, namely identification, recurrence, association, premium, and prediction functions. More and more data are captured, mined, and applied, and more and more laws are discovered. The ability to understand and transform the world will be greatly enhanced.

It can be seen that data is playing an increasingly important role in people's production and life. For example, the change from taxis to online car-hailing, the digitization of payment methods, etc. In the future, data-driven everything will become more and more realistic, and "speaking with data, making decisions with data, and acting according to data" will no longer be an empty phrase.

Zhang Xinhong believes that more and more government departments and enterprises will take the initiative to embrace data openness in the next few years. Data capabilities will become the cornerstone of future core competitiveness. The core competitive advantage of enterprises and even industries in the future lies in the ability to obtain data that can be quickly improved.

The new infrastructure has attracted much attention since it was proposed. The construction of new infrastructure has become a booster for the development of my country's digital economy. Sun Songlin, director of the Department of Electronic Information Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, believes that the seven major directions included in the new infrastructure, the integration of new infrastructure to form digital technology, will empower the future digital economy and industrial economy. The new infrastructure will optimize the future digital living environment, and the ability of individuals to learn and use various digital terminals and digital technologies will be greatly enhanced in the future.

At present, the innovation of digital technology is changing with each passing day, and the potential of integration and application is bursting out in an all-round way. In the two important parts of the digital economy, digital industrialization and industrial digitization, digital technology plays a very important role.

The use of digital technology will lead to new products, new formats, new models and new occupations. In July this year, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other 13 departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Supporting the Healthy Development of New Business Formats and New Models, Activating the Consumer Market and Driving Employment Expansion", which clearly stated that it supports the development of 15 new business formats and new models. And these 15 new formats and new models are basically the results and performance of data fusion innovation.

It can be seen from the law of 5G investment and construction in my country that the important characteristics of information infrastructure construction in new infrastructure are long-term and public welfare. "At present, my country is still in the early stage of the digital economy. If we want to dominate the digital economy in the future, artificial intelligence-related industries in the new infrastructure are a very important development direction. While vigorously developing digital technology, we must also pay attention to the development of new digital technology talents. Cultivate." Sun Songlin said.

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Source of information: "People's Posts and Telecommunications"