New economic form after agricultural economy, industrial economy and service economy. Different from agricultural economy and industrial economy, digital economy is an economic form with data as the core production factor.
Digital economy is a new economic form with the vigorous development and continuous evolution of digital technology. It is difficult to have a consistent understanding of such a developing concept. There are great differences among countries in terms of connotation, industry definition, scale measurement and employment contribution. He has a good stone on Fangshan, which can be used to cut jade.
Seymour Martin Lipsett, an American sociologist, once said, "People who know only one country actually don't know any country." A comparative analysis of the situation in the United States, Canada and Britain is of great benefit to our in-depth understanding of China's digital economy.
Main historical background:
Since human society entered the information age, the rapid development and wide application of digital technology gave birth to the digital economy. Different from the agricultural economy in the farming era and the industrial economy in the industrial era, the digital economy is a new economy, new kinetic energy and new format, which has triggered profound changes in the whole social economy.
At present, digital technology, goods and services are not only infiltrating into traditional industries in multiple directions, levels and chains, that is, industry digitalization; Moreover, it is promoting the continuous development and growth of digital industrial chains and industrial clusters such as Internet data center (IDC) construction and services, that is, digital industrialization.
The new infrastructures such as 5G network, data center and industrial Internet that China is making great efforts to build are essentially digital economic infrastructures around new technology industries. Digital economy has become a new engine to drive China's economy to achieve sound and rapid growth, and various new formats spawned by digital economy will also become a new important growth point of China's economy.