The State Council City, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the Overall Layout Plan for Digital China Construction.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 27th Recently, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China (hereinafter referred to as the Plan), and issued a notice requesting all localities and departments to conscientiously implement it in light of the actual situation.

　　The Plan points out that building a digital China is an important engine to promote Chinese modernization in the digital age and a powerful support to build a new competitive advantage for the country. Accelerating the construction of digital China is of great significance and far-reaching influence on building a socialist modern country and promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

　　The Plan emphasizes that it is necessary to adhere to the guidance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought of the Supreme Leader in the new era, especially the important thought of the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader on strengthening the country through the Internet, thoroughly implement the spirit of the 20th Party Congress, adhere to the general tone of striving for progress while maintaining stability, implement the new development concept completely, accurately and comprehensively, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, make efforts to promote high-quality development, make overall plans for development and security, strengthen the system concept and bottom line thinking, and strengthen the overall layout. In accordance with the strategic path of laying a solid foundation, empowering the overall situation, strengthening capabilities, and optimizing the environment, we will comprehensively enhance the integrity, systematicness, and synergy of the construction of digital China, promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, drive changes in production, life, and governance methods with digitalization, and inject strong impetus into comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization.

　　According to the Plan, by 2025, a horizontal, vertical and coordinated integrated promotion pattern will basically be formed, and important progress will be made in the construction of digital China. Digital infrastructure is connected efficiently, the scale and quality of data resources are accelerated, the value of data elements is effectively released, the quality and benefit of digital economy development are greatly enhanced, the level of digital intelligence of government affairs is obviously improved, the construction of digital culture has leapt to a new level, the precision, universality and convenience of digital society have achieved remarkable results, the construction of digital ecological civilization has made positive progress, digital technology innovation has achieved a major breakthrough, application innovation is leading the world, digital security guarantee capability has been comprehensively improved, digital governance system has been improved, and international cooperation in the digital field has opened up a new situation. By 2035, the level of digital development will be in the forefront of the world, and great achievements will be made in the construction of digital China. The systematic layout of digital China construction is more scientific and complete, and the digital development in economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization construction is more coordinated and sufficient, which strongly supports the comprehensive construction of a socialist modern country.

　　It is clear in the Plan that the construction of digital China will be laid out according to the overall framework of "2522", that is, to consolidate the "two foundations" of digital infrastructure and data resource system, promote the deep integration of digital technology with the "five in one" of economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization construction, strengthen the "two capabilities" of digital technology innovation system and digital security barrier, and optimize the "two environments" of digital development at home and abroad.

　　The Plan points out that it is necessary to lay a solid foundation for the construction of digital China. The first is to get through the artery of digital infrastructure. Accelerate the collaborative construction of 5G networks and Gigabit optical networks, further promote the scale deployment and application of IPv6, promote the all-round development of mobile Internet of Things, and vigorously promote the scale application of Beidou. The system optimizes the layout of computing infrastructure, promotes the efficient complementarity and collaborative linkage of computing power between the east and the west, and guides the rational hierarchical layout of general data centers, supercomputing centers, intelligent computing centers and edge data centers. Improve the level of application infrastructure as a whole, and strengthen the digital and intelligent transformation of traditional infrastructure. The second is to smooth the big cycle of data resources. Establish a national data management system and mechanism, and improve data management institutions at all levels. Promote the convergence and utilization of public data, and build national data resource banks in important fields such as public health, science and technology, and education. Release the value potential of commercial data, accelerate the establishment of data property rights system, carry out research on data asset valuation, and establish a distribution mechanism for data elements to participate in according to value contribution.

　　The Plan points out that economic and social development should be fully empowered. First, make the digital economy stronger and better. Cultivate and expand the core industries of the digital economy, study and formulate measures to promote the high-quality development of the digital industry, and build a digital industry cluster with international competitiveness. Promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, and accelerate the innovative application of digital technology in key areas such as agriculture, industry, finance, education, medical care, transportation and energy. Support the development of digital enterprises, improve the innovative working mechanism of large, medium and small enterprises, give play to the guiding role of "green light" investment cases, and promote the standardized and healthy development of platform enterprises. The second is to develop efficient and collaborative digital government. Accelerate the innovation of system rules and improve the rules and regulations that are suitable for the construction of digital government. Strengthen digital capacity building, and promote information system network interconnection, data sharing on demand, and efficient business collaboration. Improve the level of digital services, accelerate the "one thing at a time", promote online and offline integration, and strengthen and standardize the management of government mobile Internet applications. The third is to create a confident and prosperous digital culture. Vigorously develop network culture, strengthen the supply of high-quality network cultural products, and guide various platforms and netizens to create and produce positive, healthy and upward-oriented network cultural products. Promote the development of cultural digitalization, implement the national cultural digitalization strategy in depth, build a national cultural big data system, and form a Chinese cultural database. Enhance the service capacity of digital culture and build a number of comprehensive digital culture display platforms.Accelerate the development of new cultural enterprises, cultural formats and cultural consumption patterns. The fourth is to build an inclusive and convenient digital society. Promote the popularization of digital public services, vigorously implement the national education digitalization strategic action, improve the national smart education platform, develop digital health, and standardize the development of Internet diagnosis and treatment and Internet hospitals. Promote the precision of digital social governance, implement digital rural development actions in depth, and digitally empower rural industrial development, rural construction and rural governance. Popularize the intelligence of digital life, and create a smart and convenient life circle, a new digital consumption format, and an intelligent immersive service experience for the future. The fifth is to build a green and intelligent digital ecological civilization. Promote the intelligent management of ecological environment, accelerate the construction of an intelligent and efficient ecological environment information system, promote the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, fields, lakes, grass and sand by using digital technology, improve the three-dimensional "one map" of natural resources and the basic information platform of national land space, and build a smart water conservancy system with digital twin basins as the core. Accelerate the coordinated transformation of digitalization and greening. Advocate a green and intelligent lifestyle.

　　The plan point out that that key capabilities of digital China should be strengthen. The first is to build a self-reliant digital technology innovation system. We will improve the new national system for tackling key core technologies under the conditions of socialist market economy, and strengthen the deep integration of Industry-University-Research led by enterprises. Strengthen the dominant position of scientific and technological innovation of enterprises and give play to the leading and supporting role of key scientific and technological enterprises. Strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights and improve the income distribution mechanism of intellectual property rights transformation. The second is to build a credible and controllable digital security barrier. Effectively safeguard network security and improve the network security laws, regulations and policy system. Enhance the ability of data security, establish the basic system of data classification and classification protection, and improve the network data monitoring and early warning and emergency response system.

　　The Plan points out that it is necessary to optimize the digital development environment. The first is to build a fair and standardized digital governance ecology. Improve the system of laws and regulations, strengthen the overall coordination of legislation, study and formulate legislative plans in the digital field, and timely adjust legal systems that are not suitable for digital development according to procedures. Build a technical standard system, compile a digital standard work guide, and speed up the formulation and revision of application standards such as digital transformation and industrial cross-integration development in various industries. Improve the level of governance, improve the network comprehensive governance system, enhance the ability of comprehensive governance in all directions and dimensions, and build a scientific, efficient and orderly network governance pattern. Purify cyberspace, carry out in-depth network ecological governance work, promote the series of special actions of "Clear" and "Net", and innovate to promote the construction of network civilization. The second is to build an open and win-win international cooperation pattern in the digital field. Make overall plans for international cooperation in the digital field, establish an international exchange and cooperation system in the digital field with multi-level collaboration, multi-platform support and multi-agent participation, build a "Digital Silk Road" with high quality, and actively develop "Silk Road E-commerce". Expand the space for international cooperation in the digital field, actively participate in the cooperation platforms in the digital field under multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the G20, APEC, BRICS and SCO, build a new platform for open cooperation in the digital field with high quality, and actively participate in the construction of relevant international rules such as cross-border data flow.

　　The "Planning" emphasizes that it is necessary to strengthen overall planning and overall planning, and implement various tasks. The first is to strengthen organizational leadership. Adhere to and strengthen the Party’s overall leadership over the construction of digital China. Under the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Cyber Security and Informatization Committee strengthened the overall coordination, overall promotion and supervision of the construction of digital China. Give full play to the role of the Network Security and Informatization Committee of local party committees, improve the deliberation and coordination mechanism, put digital development in an important position in local work, and earnestly implement responsibilities. All relevant departments shall, in accordance with the division of responsibilities, improve policies and measures, strengthen resource integration and strength coordination, and form a joint effort. The second is to improve the system and mechanism. Establish and improve the overall coordination mechanism for the construction of digital China, study and solve major problems in digital development in a timely manner, promote inter-departmental coordination and linkage, and do a good job in supervising the implementation of major tasks and major projects. Carry out monitoring and evaluation of the development of digital China. Take the construction of digital China as a reference for the assessment and evaluation of relevant party and government leading cadres. The third is to ensure capital investment. Innovate the way of financial support and strengthen the overall guidance of all kinds of funds. Give play to the role of the national industry integration platform and guide financial resources to support digital development. Encourage and guide capital norms to participate in the construction of digital China, and build an investment and financing system in which social capital can effectively participate. The fourth is to strengthen talent support. Enhance the digital thinking, digital cognition and digital skills of leading cadres and civil servants. Coordinate the layout of a number of disciplines in the digital field, and cultivate innovative, applied and compound talents.Construct a digital literacy and skills development and cultivation system covering the whole people and urban-rural integration. The fifth is to create a good atmosphere. Promote universities, research institutions and enterprises to participate in the construction of digital China, and establish a number of digital China research bases. Coordinate the comprehensive pilot work of digital China construction, and comprehensively integrate and promote the reform experiment. We will do a good job in major events such as the Digital China Construction Summit, hold a series of high-standard domestic and international events in the digital field, promote the digital concept to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and create a good atmosphere for the whole society to pay attention to and actively participate in the construction of digital China.