What industries are included in the digital economy

The digital economy includes the communications industry, computer-based technology industry, software industry, Internet industry, e-commerce industry and so on.

Digital economy is an economic form that guides and realizes the rapid and optimal allocation and regeneration of resources through the identification, selection, filtering, storage, and use of big data (digitized knowledge and information) to achieve the high-quality development of the economy.

At the technological level, it includes the Internet, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and so on. At the application level, "new retail" and "new manufacturing" are its typical representatives.

Introduction of Digital Economy:

Since human society has entered the information age, the rapid development and wide application of digital technology has given rise to 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, a new kinetic energy, and a new mode of business, which has triggered profound changes in the society and the economy as a whole.

At this stage, digital technology, goods and services are not only accelerating the penetration of multi-direction, multi-layer and multi-chain to traditional industries, i.e., industrial digitalization; but also promoting the continuous development and growth of digital industry chain and industry clusters such as the construction and service of Internet data center, i.e., digital industrialization.

China is focusing on promoting the construction of 5G network, data center, industrial Internet and other new infrastructure, essentially around the technology of the new industries of the digital economy infrastructure, the digital economy has become a new engine to drive China's economy to achieve good and fast growth, the digital economy has given rise to a variety of new forms of business, will also become China's new important economic growth point.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia for the above - Connotation of Digital Economy