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Opinions on comprehensively promoting the digital transformation of Shanghai's city have been released
Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Digital Transformation of Shanghai's City
In order to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's strategic deployment on a strong cyberspace, a digital China, and a smart society, to practice the important concept of "people building the city for the people," to consolidate and enhance the city's energy level and core competitiveness, and to build Shanghai's new strategic advantages in the future, the following opinions are put forward on comprehensively promoting the digital transformation of Shanghai's city.
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Deeply Understanding the Significance of Shanghai Entering a New Stage of Development and Comprehensively Promoting Urban Digital Transformation
Comprehensively promoting digital transformation is a key move to shape the city's core competitiveness for the future. Digitalization is changing human society in an irreversible trend, and the COVID-19 epidemic in particular has further accelerated the full arrival of the digital age. Digitalization is increasingly becoming the core driving force for economic and social development, profoundly changing the global organization of production and trade structure, redefining productivity and production relations, and comprehensively reshaping urban governance models and lifestyles. As data resources become increasingly prominent as leading, functional, and key elements in linking domestic and international dual cycles, comprehensively promoting urban digital transformation has become an important strategy for Shanghai to actively serve the new development pattern.
Comprehensively promoting digital transformation is a necessary requirement for the modernization of the governance system and governance capacity of megacities. As a megacity, Shanghai has a large population, large traffic flow, and dense functions, and has the characteristics of a complex giant system. The construction, development, operation, and governance of the city are intertwined and complex, and it is necessary to fully use digital methods to explore new paths for social governance in megacities and respond to people's new expectations for a better life. Shanghai has focused on promoting "one-stop access" for government services and "one-network management" for urban operations, accelerating the construction of a new type of smart city, vigorously developing the online new economy, and building first-class digital infrastructure, laying a solid foundation for the city's digital transformation. In the face of new opportunities and challenges in the new development stage, we must recognize the situation, seize opportunities, and take advantage of the momentum, firmly grasp this major strategic issue of urban digital transformation that is related to the overall situation and long-term development, further enhance determination and urgency, adhere to overall transformation, all-round empowerment, and revolutionary reshaping, and make every effort to do a good job in comprehensively promoting urban digital transformation, striving to create new miracles in Shanghai's development in the new era.
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Clarifying the Overall Requirements for Urban Digital Transformation
Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implementing the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the second, third, fourth, and fifth plenary sessions of the 19th Central Committee, thoroughly implementing the important speeches made by General Secretary Xi Jinping during his inspection of Shanghai and at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pudong's opening up, taking digital transformation as one of the main attack directions for Shanghai's economic and social development during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, actively adapting to and mastering the new trends and opportunities brought about by the digital age, scientifically following the laws of urban operation and development, continuously deepening Shanghai's leading advantages in digital development in various fields, starting from the overall perspective of "the city is a living organism," and comprehensively promoting the digital transformation of the city's economy, life, and governance. Taking the lead in exploring new experiences, using digital methods to creatively solve the problems of governance and development in megacities; taking the lead in applying new technologies, using digital scenarios to drive technological innovation and vast market space; taking the lead in transforming new driving forces, using data elements to configure and link global resources, and vigorously stimulating social creativity and market potential, comprehensively improving the modernization of urban governance capacity and level, creating a wonderful digital life experience for the people's city, creating a strong engine for high-quality urban development, and laying a solid foundation for accelerating the construction of a socialist modern international metropolis with global influence.
By 2025, Shanghai will have achieved significant results in comprehensively promoting urban digital transformation, and the construction of an international digital city will have formed a basic framework. World-class digital infrastructure, nationally leading digital economy, well-developed international digital trade hub port functions, the establishment of a world-class digital industrial cluster, and becoming a globally competitive financial technology center and a digital economy innovation highland. Digital life will become a new fashion, the quality and efficiency of public services will be further improved, a vibrant digital life service ecosystem will be built, and a new paradigm of digital life that everyone can enjoy will be formed, with higher quality and greater beauty. Governance capabilities will be comprehensively upgraded, digital rules will be more complete, data elements will flow efficiently, and a new model of megacity digital governance that leads the country will be formed. By 2035, it will become an international digital city with global influence.
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Adhering to Overall Transformation, Promoting the Comprehensive Digital Transformation of "Economy, Life, and Governance"
(1) Promoting the digital transformation of the economy and improving the quality of economic development. Accelerating the promotion of digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, magnifying the radiating and driving role of the digital economy, optimizing and strengthening the city's core functions, and assisting the development of the "five-type economy." Accelerating the construction of world-class digital industrial clusters such as integrated circuits and artificial intelligence, using data flow to drive the global allocation of capital, talent, technology, and knowledge, establishing a cross-regional collaborative network of scientific and technological resources, and smoothing the two-way link fast lane between basic research, applied research, and industrialization. Accelerating the digital transformation of production manufacturing, scientific research and development, financial services, commerce and trade, shipping and logistics, professional services, and agriculture, promoting the integrated development of industrial Internet and consumer Internet, promoting the construction of smart ports, vigorously developing digital trade, and helping to improve the security and stability of industrial chains and supply chains. Leading the vigorous development of the online new economy, making every effort to enhance the brand of the new generation of Internet economy, vigorously developing new applications, creating new formats, exploring new models, and cultivating new occupations, expanding the emerging consumer market, taking mutual benefit as the value orientation, and forming new competitive advantages in the digital economy.
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Adhering to all-around empowerment, building a basic framework for a data-driven digital city
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Adhere to revolutionary reshaping, guiding the whole society to jointly build, govern, and share the digital city
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Innovate work promotion mechanisms, and comprehensively promote urban digital transformation in a scientific and orderly manner
Source: Shanghai Release
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