Official hails major progress in building ‘digital China’

Photo taken on July 22, 2022 shows a view of the venue for a special exhibition of the 5th Digital China Summit in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian province. (PHOTO/XINHUA)

BEIJING – A senior official said major progress has been made in building a "digital China" since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party.

Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks while addressing the 5th Digital China Summit via video on Saturday.

Huang Kunming, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, called for more efforts to make new breakthroughs in key and core technologies and open up new prospects in infrastructure development

He called for more efforts to make new breakthroughs in key and core technologies and open up new prospects in infrastructure development.

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Huang stressed that digital industrialization and industrial digitization should be vigorously promoted. He also required efforts to build a digital economy with data as the key element, accelerate the development of digital government, new smart cities and digital villages, and improve the digital literacy and skills of the general public.

The two-day summit, co-sponsored by authorities including the Cyberspace Administration of China, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the government of east China's Fujian Province, is being held in the provincial capital of Fuzhou. It will conclude on Sunday. 

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