May 19, 2025<\/p>\n
The National Data Administration of China announced a 2025 action plan for building a digital China, covering eight key areas of action: institutional innovation, local brand development, enhanced artificial intelligence, infrastructure improvement, data industry development, and digital talent development.<\/p>\n
According to the plan, the added value of the basic industries of China’s digital economy is expected to account for more than 10% of GDP by 2025.<\/p>\n
China expects that by the end of this year, significant progress will have been made in building a digital China, with the continued expansion of new, high-quality productive forces in the digital industry, significant improvements in the quality and efficiency of digital economic development, and an increase in computing power to more than 300 computational operations.<\/p>\n
The plan indicated that China’s total computing power will exceed 300 EFLOPS by that time. EFLOPS is a unit of measurement for computer systems, equal to a quintillion floating point calculations per second. Steady progress will also be made in building a unified data element market.<\/p>\n
The plan calls for deepening reforms related to market-oriented data element allocation, accelerating the establishment of a unified national data market, facilitating the development of a data-driven digital economy tailored to local conditions, strengthening international cooperation in the digital field, and comprehensively raising the overall level of China’s digital development.<\/p>\n
More efforts will be made to explore AI application scenarios, advance the construction of high-quality AI data sets, improve and upgrade the Internet of Things and the Industrial Internet, advance the “East-West Computing” big data project, and promote the development and utilization of public data resources.<\/p>\n
China’s digital industry generated revenue of 8.5 trillion yuan (about US$1.18 trillion) in the first quarter of this year, a 9.4% year-on-year increase, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.<\/p>\n
This year’s government work report noted that the country will “accelerate the digitalization of manufacturing, foster a number of service providers with industrial expertise and digital knowledge, and strengthen support for the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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