2025 Global Digital Economy Conference opens in Beijing
On July 2, the 2025 Global Digital Economy Conference with the theme of "Building Digital Friendly Cities" opened in Beijing. At the opening ceremony, relevant leaders from multiple departments such as the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission and the National Data Bureau spoke out, releasing policy signals around supporting high-efficiency urban governance with new technologies, establishing and improving urban intelligent hubs, and strengthening digital institutional reforms, and depicting a new picture of promoting the digital transformation of the entire city.
In the "Digital Economy International Cooperation and Exchange Experience Zone" set up by the conference, from the implementation of artificial intelligence big models in the financial, medical, education and other industries, to the efficiency improvement of government services driven by big data, to the new experience of smart life brought by "5G+Internet of Things"... a series of key digital technologies are integrated and applied in urban scenes, showing the bright future of smart cities.
Outside the venue, in Beijing Fang in the Dashilan Historical and Cultural District of Beijing, where the Beijing Digital Economy Experience Week Exhibition Hall is located, nearly 50 technology companies showcased their latest technological achievements and solutions in a 6,000-square-meter immersive interactive experience space, bringing citizens a cross-border integration experience of digital technology and cultural creativity.
At present, my country's smart city construction has made a phased breakthrough. Taking Beijing as an example, the reporter learned from the conference that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing's digital economy maintained rapid growth, and strategic emerging industry clusters such as intelligent connected vehicles, artificial intelligence, and embodied intelligence developed rapidly. Beijing's citizen hotline "12345" helps improve the level of refined urban governance, with a resolution rate and satisfaction rate of over 97%.
Zhuang Rongwen, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office, and director of the State Cyberspace Affairs Office, said at the opening ceremony that in the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, we must seize the opportunities of scientific and technological innovation, launch original technologies and innovative scenarios, strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, and cultivate a strong driving force for high-quality urban development. In the face of new issues in urban governance in the information age, we must actively apply new technologies such as artificial intelligence to promote innovation in urban management concepts, models, and means, empower grassroots governance, and improve the scientific, refined, and intelligent level of urban governance.
Related deployments are further promoting the digital transformation of the entire city. In May 2024, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Bureau and other four departments issued the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting the Digital Transformation of Cities", proposing that by 2027, the digital transformation of cities across the country will achieve significant results, forming a number of livable, resilient and smart cities with horizontal and vertical connections and their own characteristics, which will strongly support the construction of Digital China.
"The digital transformation of cities across the country should further consolidate the development foundation." Liu Liehong, Director of the National Data Bureau, said that cities should be used as a comprehensive carrier to promote the construction of Digital China, give play to the multiplier effect of data elements in empowering the overall situation, and strengthen the collaborative innovation of technology and mechanisms. Build an intensive and unified digital base and data platform, establish and improve the urban intelligent center, and promote the interconnection of facilities, data integration, platform interconnection and business interconnection of urban digital transformation. Strengthen the reform of appropriate digital systems, promote cross-domain and cross-departmental data collaborative sharing, business process reengineering, and governance rule reconstruction.
In addition, the digital transformation of cities across the country should further highlight the application orientation. Liu Liehong said that we should pay attention to the safe, efficient and accurate operation of cities, accelerate the digital renewal of cities, create a more resilient urban lifeline, innovate "one network management", and give full play to the important role of data elements and digital technologies in urban emergency safety management. Improve emergency discovery, decision-making, response and disposal capabilities, and shift from passive response to active prevention.
It is worth mentioning that cities are becoming a key force in promoting sustainable development and global collaboration. At the opening ceremony, the "Global Digital Economy City Alliance" was officially established. The alliance focuses on key issues such as digital infrastructure construction, cross-border data governance, artificial intelligence ethics, and smart city applications, and deepens the practice of coordinated development of urban clusters, co-construction of industrial ecology, and innovation in digital governance.
"We must adhere to consultation, co-construction, and sharing, give full play to the unique advantages of the Internet, promote digital economic exchanges and cooperation among different cities, carry out international cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence, create a good environment for urban development, and expand broad space
In the "Digital Economy International Cooperation and Exchange Experience Zone" set up by the conference, from the implementation of artificial intelligence big models in the financial, medical, education and other industries, to the efficiency improvement of government services driven by big data, to the new experience of smart life brought by "5G+Internet of Things"... a series of key digital technologies are integrated and applied in urban scenes, showing the bright future of smart cities.
Outside the venue, in Beijing Fang in the Dashilan Historical and Cultural District of Beijing, where the Beijing Digital Economy Experience Week Exhibition Hall is located, nearly 50 technology companies showcased their latest technological achievements and solutions in a 6,000-square-meter immersive interactive experience space, bringing citizens a cross-border integration experience of digital technology and cultural creativity.
At present, my country's smart city construction has made a phased breakthrough. Taking Beijing as an example, the reporter learned from the conference that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Beijing's digital economy maintained rapid growth, and strategic emerging industry clusters such as intelligent connected vehicles, artificial intelligence, and embodied intelligence developed rapidly. Beijing's citizen hotline "12345" helps improve the level of refined urban governance, with a resolution rate and satisfaction rate of over 97%.
Zhuang Rongwen, deputy director of the Central Propaganda Department, director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office, and director of the State Cyberspace Affairs Office, said at the opening ceremony that in the face of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, we must seize the opportunities of scientific and technological innovation, launch original technologies and innovative scenarios, strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, develop new quality productivity according to local conditions, and cultivate a strong driving force for high-quality urban development. In the face of new issues in urban governance in the information age, we must actively apply new technologies such as artificial intelligence to promote innovation in urban management concepts, models, and means, empower grassroots governance, and improve the scientific, refined, and intelligent level of urban governance.
Related deployments are further promoting the digital transformation of the entire city. In May 2024, the National Development and Reform Commission, the National Data Bureau and other four departments issued the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Development of Smart Cities and Promoting the Digital Transformation of Cities", proposing that by 2027, the digital transformation of cities across the country will achieve significant results, forming a number of livable, resilient and smart cities with horizontal and vertical connections and their own characteristics, which will strongly support the construction of Digital China.
"The digital transformation of cities across the country should further consolidate the development foundation." Liu Liehong, Director of the National Data Bureau, said that cities should be used as a comprehensive carrier to promote the construction of Digital China, give play to the multiplier effect of data elements in empowering the overall situation, and strengthen the collaborative innovation of technology and mechanisms. Build an intensive and unified digital base and data platform, establish and improve the urban intelligent center, and promote the interconnection of facilities, data integration, platform interconnection and business interconnection of urban digital transformation. Strengthen the reform of appropriate digital systems, promote cross-domain and cross-departmental data collaborative sharing, business process reengineering, and governance rule reconstruction.
In addition, the digital transformation of cities across the country should further highlight the application orientation. Liu Liehong said that we should pay attention to the safe, efficient and accurate operation of cities, accelerate the digital renewal of cities, create a more resilient urban lifeline, innovate "one network management", and give full play to the important role of data elements and digital technologies in urban emergency safety management. Improve emergency discovery, decision-making, response and disposal capabilities, and shift from passive response to active prevention.
It is worth mentioning that cities are becoming a key force in promoting sustainable development and global collaboration. At the opening ceremony, the "Global Digital Economy City Alliance" was officially established. The alliance focuses on key issues such as digital infrastructure construction, cross-border data governance, artificial intelligence ethics, and smart city applications, and deepens the practice of coordinated development of urban clusters, co-construction of industrial ecology, and innovation in digital governance.
"We must adhere to consultation, co-construction, and sharing, give full play to the unique advantages of the Internet, promote digital economic exchanges and cooperation among different cities, carry out international cooperation in fields such as artificial intelligence, create a good environment for urban development, and expand broad space
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2025-07-02 22:52:32