“The world is entering a period of rapid development of the digital economy. New technologies, new formats and new platforms such as 5G, artificial intelligence and smart cities are booming, which have a profound impact on global scientific and technological innovation, industrial structure adjustment, and economic and social development.” On August 23rd, in his congratulatory letter to the China-SCO Forum on the Digital Economy Industry and the Smart China Expo 2021, President Xi Jinping pointed out that “letting digitalization, networking, and intelligence promote economic and social development”.
 
This year, Qingdao has conscientiously implemented the important instructions and requirements of President Xi Jinping. Zhao Haozhi, Deputy Secretary of Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Qingdao, has made a comprehensive deployment, refined tactics and action guidelines, and supervised the implementation. Under the top-level promotion of the municipal party committee and municipal government, the transformation of Qingdao’s digitization has been gradually internalized into a core identity and action plan of a city. With the digital transformation to accelerate the urban transformation, profound changes driven by digitization are taking place in economic development, urban governance, social life, and other aspects.


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Focus on industry digitization, maintain the first-mover advantage of industrial Internet, and create new advantages for development

In the first half of this year, the operating revenue of the computer, communication, and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry in Qingdao was 32.99 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 20.1%; the operating revenue of telecommunications, radio and television and satellite transmission services was 7.85 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 15.3%; the operating revenue of Internet and related services was 700 million yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 46.6%; the operating revenue of software and information technology service industry was 11.25 billion yuan, with a year-on-year growth rate of 22.6%; the total output value of the five provincial digital economic parks in the first half of the year reached 39.21 billion yuan, with a year-on-year increase of 23.3%.


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Accelerate the modernization of government governance with digital empowerment to create a smart city
 
Qingdao is actively building a collaborative system of government decision-making integrating digital intelligence, promoting the docking of government regulatory decision-making platforms with data platforms of enterprises in the fields of Internet, finance, telecommunications, banking, energy, healthcare, and education, deepening data aggregation and sharing, and using social data resources to strengthen government decision-making support.


Articulated Naturality Web of Chengyang District
 
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Adhere to the user perspective and scenario application to make the digital city truly become a people’s city
 
Qingdao focuses on people’s sense of gain and digitization that benefits the people’s livelihood. The 24 checklists with scenario application as the entry point, focus on the education, transportation, healthcare, and other areas most concerned in people’s life, continue to strengthen the digital development of application scenarios.


Hisense Digital Operating Room
 
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Identify shortcomings, take advantage of the favorable situation, and accelerate the urban transformation with digital power

The just-held digital Qingdao construction work conference once again clarified the next step of digital Qingdao construction—focusing on “six accelerations” and “one strengthening”, and achieving goals one by one.


Qingdao-Amazon AWS Joint Innovation Center
 
Accelerating the construction of “digital Qingdao” and “smart city” is the key to the future development of Qingdao. We believe that with the top-level promotion of the municipal party committee and the municipal government and the concerted efforts of all departments at all levels in the city, the running digital transformation will let us see the urban transformation that leads to a more convenient life, more efficient production, more intimate livelihood security, smarter social governance, and better government services.