Unleashing the potential of digital economy to help Shanxi's high-quality development

Theoretical Research Center of Party School of Shanxi Provincial Party Committee

In recent years, Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and provincial government have attached great importance to the strategic deployment of digital economy and made efforts to build digital economy into a new engine of economic growth in our province. However, Shanxi still faces many difficulties and challenges to focus on promoting the construction of "Digital Shanxi". At the same time, compared with other brother provinces in central China, there is also a certain gap. On the basis of grasping the general requirements of "four for four highs and two synchronizations", it is a new idea for Shanxi to seek a new way of transformation and development to clarify the current development status of digital economy, clarify the problems and shortcomings in the development of digital economy, and explore the countermeasures for digital economy to promote Shanxi's high-quality development.

First, the basic status quo of digital economy development in Shanxi Province

First, the infrastructure construction has been continuously improved. In 218, the total length of optical cable lines in Shanxi Province reached 1.28 million kilometers, and the inter-provincial export bandwidth of the Internet was also greatly expanded, with a growth rate of 38.4%, ranking 11th in the country. In terms of broadband network service capacity, the proportion of mobile optical fiber users is as high as 97.5%, and the penetration rate ranks first in the country, realizing the coverage capacity of mobile broadband network in Shuang Sheng. At the same time, the investment related to network facilities in our province has also increased exponentially. In the first half of 22 alone, the investment in information service industry in the province increased by 1.2 times, of which the investment in internet and related service industries increased by 13.9%.

second, the level of digital industrialization has reached a new level. Under the high-point plan of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government, a number of leading enterprises with high reputation at home and abroad, such as Huawei, Baidu, China Electronics, China Electronics and Alibaba, have settled in Shanxi. Electronic information manufacturing enterprises such as China Great Wall, Shuguang and Loongson have gradually grown, and local leading enterprises such as Baixin and Cloud Times have flourished. The digital industry in Shanxi has shown an expanding trend from scratch, from point to point and gradually into a network. At present, the digital industry in our province has initially formed a digital industrial chain pattern led by core leading enterprises, namely, chip manufacturers with Godson and Kunpeng as the core of research and development, operating system manufacturers with Tongxin and neokylin as the main players, complete machine manufacturers with Baixin and China Great Wall as the main players, supercomputer manufacturers with national science Jinyun as the main players, and more than 4 companies such as ChinaSoft, Taiji, Yongzhong, Kingdee Tianyan and Donghua Software attracted by the cloud era.

thirdly, the convergence speed of digital industry is accelerating. In terms of intelligent manufacturing industry, emerging intelligent manufacturing enterprises such as CLP No.2, Fusheng Aluminum, Universiade Automobile, Taigang Stainless, Zhiqi Railway and Keda Automation have become national intelligent manufacturing demonstration enterprises since 215. In order to realize the high-quality transformation and development of traditional industries at an early date, Shanxi organically combines digital technology with energy industry. In the construction of smart coal mines, Shanxi has applied advanced algorithms and digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and 5G to the safety production and operation management of coal mines, creating different types and modes of smart coal mines.

fourth, new formats and new models have shown a benign development trend. At the beginning of 22, the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic brought the national economic construction to a standstill. However, the new format and new model of digital economy in the epidemic provide a new direction for Shanxi's high-quality transformation and development. For example, in terms of online medical care, in the first quarter of 22, the transaction amount of the Internet medical platform in Shanxi Province was 51 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 148.9%; In terms of online consumption, the turnover of tobacco, alcohol and beverage commodity trading platforms in the province increased by 9.5% year-on-year, and the online commodity turnover of local supermarkets exceeded 38 million yuan, an increase of 76.4%. In addition to new formats such as online medical care and online consumption, live delivery has also become a new highlight in Shanxi's new format model. From January to June, 22, Linfen City promoted local specialty products by means of live broadcast with goods by county magistrate and county party secretary, and the turnover of online sales of goods was more than 3 million yuan. Yuncheng City and Pinduoduo reached a cooperation intention to carry out online simulcast activities of agricultural products. This new business circulation mode of "live broadcast of brand agricultural special products" effectively boosted the rapid growth of online retail sales in the province.

Fifth, the business environment of the digital economy continued to improve. In recent years, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee has attached great importance to the improvement of the business environment and clearly pointed out that it is necessary to make every effort to create a "six best" business environment. According to the "six best" standards, Shanxi provincial government has further promoted the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services effect" reform, compared with the practices of the central government and advanced regions, fully liberalized the pilot reform of enterprise investment project commitment system, connected with the latest common rules of international trade and investment, deepened the reform of commercial system, reduced the examination and approval items and working hours of enterprises, removed market access barriers, transformed government functions, improved administrative efficiency, and promoted the sustained improvement of business environment in our province. By December 219, Shanxi had completed 1,22 pilot projects of enterprise investment project commitment system reform, saving 5% of the time from declaration to landing. At the same time, Shanxi has also carried out facilitation reform in the examination and approval service, and on the basis of completing 8.5 working days in the State Council by benchmarking, the processing time of enterprises has been reduced to 5 working days. According to the feedback from the fifth inspection in the State Council, in the evaluation of business environment indicators in 218, six of the seven important indicators in Shanxi have been greatly carried forward.

second, the current problems and gaps in the development of digital economy in Shanxi province

in 22, the average level of digital economy development index in China was 29.6. The basic pattern of digital economy development in China presents the regional characteristics of strong in the south and weak in the north. Shanxi digital economy is divided into development stages, ranking 22nd in the national digital economy development index.

first, comparative analysis of digital infrastructure index. In 22, the national average digital infrastructure index is 31.3, and the performance of digital infrastructure in the six central provinces is relatively balanced. Among them, Henan province has the highest digital infrastructure index, reaching 4.5, ranking first in the country; Shanxi's digital infrastructure has the lowest score of 27.1. The difference between the highest score and the lowest score is not big, which shows that there is little difference within the digital infrastructure of the six central provinces, which provides a good support for the development of information industry, software service industry and other related industries. Therefore, Shanxi should continue to exert its efforts in the construction of new digital infrastructure, and make the layout of 5G and data industry center as the key points of new digital infrastructure construction, so as to lay a good foundation for the sustainable development of digital economy.

the second is the comparative analysis of digital industry development index. The average score of the national digital industry development index is 24.6. Among the six central provinces, Hubei Province has the highest maturity of digital economy industry and Shanxi Province has the worst. Among them, the standard deviation of industrial scale in Shanxi Province is greater than that of the main body of digital industry, indicating that the gap between the quality and quantity of enterprises is relatively large. At the same time, the average value of Shanxi's industrial development index is lower than that of the other five provinces, indicating that Shanxi Province is lagging behind in terms of industrial scale as a whole. As for the cultivation of industrial subjects, influenced by the number of dominant unicorn enterprises and listed enterprises, digital enterprises with industrial influence have not been cultivated in Shanxi, so the score of this subdivision index is extremely low, which also shows that the six provinces in central China are more obviously differentiated in industrialization.

the third is the comparative analysis of the development index of digital convergence industry. Judging from the scores of six central provinces, except Shanxi Province, the scores of digital fusion indicators in other provinces all exceed or are equal to the average score. In terms of industrial digitalization, Shanxi province is slightly backward, and the other five provinces are relatively balanced; In the field of digital R&D design and enterprise digitalization collaboration, Shanxi Province scored low, and Henan and Anhui provinces led the central region, indicating that most of the model enterprises of industrial digitalization gathered here, and the digital transformation of enterprises in Shanxi has a long way to go. In the field of rural digitalization, the construction of Taobao village in central provinces is rapid, and Taobao village in Shanxi Province has also achieved zero breakthrough, and the potential of rural e-commerce is gradually exerting strength.

the fourth is the comparative analysis of the environmental index of digital economy development. From the overall development situation, there is little difference in the development environment of digital economy in the six central provinces. Nevertheless, the development environment of digital economy in Shanxi Province is still ranked last. In the field of sub-indicators, Shanxi's government network service level is excellent, which is inseparable from the continuous implementation of the relevant policies of "Internet+government service"; There is a certain gap between Shanxi and other provinces in the index of interactive terminal of government service, which indicates that Shanxi needs to continue to exert its efforts in the construction, management and business optimization of interactive terminal of government service in the future. It should not be overlooked that in terms of government data governance, Shanxi Province has the lowest score level, indicating that the data governance service in our province is still in its infancy, and the systematic measures and policies of data governance have not been followed up in time, and the social impact is very limited.

third, countermeasures and suggestions for the future development of digital economy in Shanxi province

first, speed up the construction of new infrastructure and do a good job in supporting the development of digital economy. With the comprehensive promotion of digital industries such as artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing, it is objectively required to speed up the construction of new digital infrastructures such as 5G, industrial Internet of Things and data centers. In this regard, Shanxi should strengthen the layout of new infrastructure, further improve the construction of new network infrastructure, vigorously promote the comprehensive coverage of 5G and other related network facilities in urban and rural areas, continue to promote the expansion and optimization of backbone networks and network structures, enhance the carrying capacity and expansion of provincial export bandwidth, enrich the level of inter-provincial optical cable trunk transmission networks, actively promote the in-depth development of triple play, and accelerate the establishment of industrial Internet platforms. Advance the layout of the next generation of new Internet, speed up the comprehensive upgrade to the new version of IPv6, improve the dredging ability and service carrying capacity of digital services, lay the foundation for the development of digital economy, and do a good job of bottom support.

the second is to speed up key core technology research and cultivate a new ecology of digital economy. Further increase investment in technology research and development of different types of enterprises, and adopt various methods flexibly to achieve breakthroughs in core key technologies. On the one hand, joint research, mergers and acquisitions or industrial cooperation can be adopted to speed up the conquest of semiconductors, core software and high-end chips; On the other hand, we will vigorously promote the improvement of Industry-University-Research's system, accelerate the exploration of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and digital twinning, and strive to build an internationally advanced, safe and controllable digital transformation technology system. Under the guidance of "energy revolution", Shanxi should further focus on energy Internet, intelligent digital mining area construction and other fields to create a large-scale digital industry innovation system. In addition, Shanxi should further focus on the invisible champions and unicorn potential enterprises with good local growth, great potential, development foundation and characteristic business, establish a dynamic cultivation library of superior enterprises, form an orderly cultivation echelon of unicorn enterprises, and provide accurate and effective policy support.

the third is to improve the level of digital industry integration and expand the scale of digital business development. In the field of industrial digitalization, Shanxi should further promote the integration of industrialization and modernization, deeply transform traditional manufacturing industry into intelligent manufacturing industry, promote the comprehensive coverage of new intelligent sites such as intelligent factories, digital workshops and intelligent steel mills in the province's industrial manufacturing enterprises, accelerate the introduction of intelligent production lines, realize the networking and intelligent upgrading of production lines, actively build an industrial Internet platform, and promote the coordinated operation and cooperation of industrial chain resources. In the aspect of energy industry transformation, based on summing up the experience of underground 5G coal mine private network in Xinyuan Mine of Yangmei Group, Shanxi should speed up the promotion of the use of smart mines, smart official website, smart power grids and other smart sites to improve the intelligent control ability of mining enterprises; In the field of agricultural digitalization, it is necessary to comprehensively promote cooperation with well-known network platforms, open up channels for sales channels of Shanxi agricultural products, and promote the digital transformation of Shanxi agriculture. In the field of service digitalization, Shanxi should continue to increase the construction and promotion of new formats and models such as smart tourism, encourage offline outlets in different industries to transform into integrated intelligent service outlets, actively innovate new service formats and models, enhance consumers' application experience, and expand the new realm of digital services.

the fourth is to optimize the digital business environment and create a new atmosphere for the development of digital economy. First of all, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research in the field of the rapid development of digital economy in our province, standardize the licensing matters related to business qualifications, implement the negative list system of access matters, unblock the government office platform, and formulate different standards for offline business and online business classification. Secondly, it is necessary to implement flexible supervision methods for new formats and new models emerging in the development of digital economy. Different formats have different business risks at different stages of development, and the regulatory authorities should be sensitive to identify and accurately judge. Thirdly, we should speed up the construction of "digital government", further optimize the level of government service in our province and improve the government's response speed on the basis of using advanced digital technology; At the same time, we will further explore the openness, supervision and maintenance of government affairs data, and provide more convenient services for the people in a wider scope. Finally, the government should make efforts to guide all members of society to know, understand and attach importance to the digital economy, form a good social atmosphere to encourage and protect innovation, and promote the construction of the digital economy innovation ecosystem. (Author: Nie Na)

Editor: Wen Jun.