What does the digital infrastructure include?

Digital infrastructure mainly involves new information and communication technologies such as 5G, data center, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, and various digital platforms based on these technologies.

Digital infrastructure is an infrastructure system driven by data innovation, based on communication network and centered on data computing facilities. Human society is accelerating digital transformation. As a new type of infrastructure, digital infrastructure, like water, electricity and expressway, has become an essential factor in people's production and life, providing a solid guarantee for industrial structure, economic development and social and ecological development. As a solid foundation of digital economy, the importance of digital infrastructure has been widely recognized.

New digital technologies, such as 3D printing, intelligent robots, AR glasses and autonomous driving, have widely expanded the application scope of digital infrastructure construction and painted a brand-new digital life picture.

Digital infrastructure is the pillar of new infrastructure, and the traditional infrastructure after digital transformation also belongs to the category of new infrastructure. Digital infrastructure and traditional infrastructure may overlap in the extension layer and radiation layer of new infrastructure, thus forming complementary and promoting effects.

Construction significance

First, in the short term, digital new infrastructure investment will directly play an economic role, define the development expectation of steady growth and employment, and release potential economic vitality. The upstream and downstream of relevant industrial chains will be directly stimulated by demand to hedge the downward pressure on the economy.

Second, in the long run, China's forward-looking layout of new infrastructure construction in view of the global future digital economy trend will hopefully improve the economic development structure and foster new impetus for long-term economic development.

Third, promote the research and development and application of new materials, new devices, new processes and new technologies, and provide necessary support for the development of new technologies, the formation of new industries, new models and new formats and large-scale commercialization.

Fourthly, promoting the municipal, transportation, security, environment, information and other departments to manage the new infrastructure in an integrated way based on the digital platform will bring about changes in the government's public infrastructure management model.