The digital economy is becoming stronger, better and bigger, and the pace of digitalization is accelerating. ＂Ten major events affecting the development of China’s Internet industry in 2021＂ is releas

The state attaches great importance to the development of the digital economy and accelerates the pace of digital development

In March 2021, the "14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People’s Republic of China and the Outline of Vision Goals for 2035" were released, which made an all-round layout for the development of the Internet in our country. After that, the "14th Five-Year Plan" special project plans in the field of informatization were introduced one after another, and important arrangements were made to promote digital development and build a digital China. In October 2021, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader further emphasized during the 34th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee that it is necessary to stand at the height of coordinating the overall situation of the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation and the world’s unparalleled changes in a century, coordinating the two major domestic and international situations, and the two major events of development and security, giving full play to the advantages of massive data and rich application scenarios, promoting the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy, empowering the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, giving birth to new industries and new business models, and constantly strengthening, improving and expanding our country’s digital economy.

Second, a number of laws have been issued to ensure cyberspace security in an all-round way

Since September 2021, the "Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China", "Regulations on the Security Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure" and "Personal Information Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China" have been implemented one after another, providing the industry with a more detailed and operable legal basis and behavioral rules, and further solidifying the institutional foundation of the Internet legal system, marking our country’s cyber security protection has entered a new stage.

Third, the introduction of anti-monopoly guidelines and other policies, Internet enterprises compliance development process accelerated

In February 2021, the Anti-Monopoly Guidelines of the Anti-Monopoly Commission of the State Council on the Platform Economy were officially issued, systematically responding to the challenge of Internet platform monopoly for the first time, releasing a clear signal that Internet platforms are not a place outside the law of anti-monopoly. In October, the Antimonopoly Act of the People’s Republic of China (Draft Amendment) was announced. This is the first amendment to our country’s Antimonopoly Act since its release, which has increased penalties for monopolistic behavior and effectively prevented disorderly capital expansion. At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology continued to promote the governance of APP infringement of user rights and interests in depth, and launched a special project rectification action in the Internet industry in July 2021. The implementation of the above series of regulations and special projects has played a significant role in compacting the main responsibility of enterprises and creating a fair competition, safe and orderly Internet market environment.

IV. The Central Office and the State Office issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Network Civilization" to create a clear cyberspace

At present, the state attaches great importance to the construction of network civilization. Since June 2021, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China has deployed a series of special projects such as "Qinglang’rice circle ‘chaos rectification". In September, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Network Civilization" to further promote the healthy development of network culture.

The overall scale of Internet users in our country exceeds 1 billion, opening a new chapter in the development of digital infrastructure

In 2021, the development environment of "5G + Industrial Internet" will continue to improve. First, the infrastructure support capacity will continue to upgrade. There are more than 32,000 5G base stations applied to the industrial Internet; there are 15 cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platforms, more than 100 platforms with certain regional and industry influence, and the total number of access equipment exceeds 76 million sets (sets). Second, the level of industry application continues to improve. "5G + Industrial Internet" has more than 1,800 projects under construction across the country, covering more than 20 key industries and fields of the national economy, and creating tens of thousands of 5G application innovation cases. Third, the technical standards have been accelerated. Industrial 5G modules are the core components of the industrial end point. The general 5G module standard has been initially formed. The types of modules continue to increase and the market price continues to decline, paving the way for large-scale applications. The integrated development of "5G + Industrial Internet" will further deepen and expand the application of industrial 5G, and empower the digital, networked and intelligent transformation and upgrading of the real economy.

"5G + Industrial Internet" enters the fast lane of development, deepening the vertical and horizontal exploration of integrated applications

The development environment of "5G + Industrial Internet" continues to improve. Infrastructure support capabilities continue to upgrade, with more than 32,000 5G base stations applied to the Industrial Internet; there are 15 cross-industry and cross-field industrial Internet platforms, more than 100 platforms with certain regional and industry influence, and the total number of access equipment exceeds 76 million (sets). The level of industry application continues to improve, and "5G + Industrial Internet" has more than 1,800 projects under construction across the country, covering more than 20 key industries and fields of the national economy. Technical standards are accelerating.

Enterprises in our country actively build an open-source ecosystem of open innovation and promote the development of in-depth information technology innovation

In 2021, our country’s enterprises actively built open-source platforms, and Baidu’s comprehensive share in China’s deep learning platform market continued to grow, ranking first. Huawei officially released HarmonyOS 2 Hongmeng mobile operating system and Euler digital infrastructure operating system, realizing a unified operating system to support multiple devices, and one application development covers the whole scene.

VIII, our country formally applied to join the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement, driving the rapid development of digital trade

At present, in the context of the rapid development of the digital economy, all countries generally recognize the huge potential and importance of digital trade, and our country actively participates in the formulation of global digital economic and trade rules with an open attitude. In October 2021, the Ministry of Commerce and other 24 departments issued the "14th Five-Year" Service Trade Development Plan, which included "digital trade" in the service trade development plan for the first time, clarified the focus of our country’s digital trade development in the future, and pointed out a clear path for the construction of the digital trade demonstration zone. In November, our country officially applied to join the Digital Economy Partnership Agreement (DEPA), and is willing to work with all parties to promote international cooperation in the digital economy and jointly promote the innovation and healthy and orderly development of the digital economy.

Digital technology empowers the low-carbon transformation of the industry, helping to achieve peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality

In March 2021, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over the ninth meeting of the Central Financial and Economic Committee and delivered an important speech, emphasizing the drive to grasp iron marks and achieve the goals of peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and carbon neutrality before 2060 as scheduled. In September, MIIT, the People’s Bank of China, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, and the Securities Supervision Commission jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Industrial and Financial Cooperation to Promote Industrial Green Development". In December, MIIT issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" for Industrial Green Development.

X. SENIOR-FRIENDLY SERVICES AND RURAL REVELOPMENT CONSTRUCTION TO BRIDGE THE "DIGITAL DISTRICT"

In January 2021, the Internet application senior-friendly and barrier-free transformation special project action was officially launched; in April, MIIT deployed to further grasp the implementation of the Internet application senior-friendly and barrier-free transformation special project action work, and released the "Internet website senior-friendly universal design specification" and "mobile Internet application (APP) senior-friendly universal design specification". The state continues to support the transformation of rural digital intelligence, and the "Digital Village Construction Guide 1.0" was officially released in September.