Digital China Wins the Future

Nodal diagram of China's National Unified Computing Power Network

1 Compute Layer, 2 Analysis & Commentary

National Unified Computing Power Network: China Is Building the Infrastructure of AI

1 Digital-Intelligent Layer, 2 Translation & Terminology

CCTV | Charting a Clear Course for the Construction of Digital China: The 15th Five-Year Plan Centers on Data

Graphic saying Using Advanced Data Infrastructure to Support the Construction of Digital China by Liu Liehong

1 Data Layer, 2 Analysis & Commentary

China’s National Data Infrastructure: Mobilizing the New Strategic Resource of the Digital Age

1 Compute Layer, 2 Translation & Terminology

Posts & Telecom | Strengthen Computing Power New-Type Infrastructure to Consolidate the Foundation of Digital China

Seeking Truth (求是) is the official bimonthly theoretical journal and news magazine of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

1 Data Layer, 2 Translation & Terminology

Qiushi | Liu Liehong: Using Advanced Data Infrastructure to Support the Construction of Digital China

Robots working at a factory assembly line

1 Full Stack, 2 Analysis & Commentary

Digital China in the 15th FYP: From Technological Revolution to Systemic Transformation

December 9, 2025

1 Full Stack, 2 Translation & Terminology

CSST | Construction of Digital China Enters a New Stage of Comprehensive Deepening

December 9, 2025

Two Chinese scientists programming large urban "brain" computer system

1 Deployment Layer, 2 Analysis & Commentary

Next Stage of Digital China will be Won or Lost in Smart Cities

December 1, 2025

1 Deployment Layer, 2 Translation & Terminology

People’s Daily | “Evolving” Cities, “Renewed” Living

December 1, 2025

6G hovering in space above earth

1 Compute Layer, 2 Briefs & Notes

6G for Digital China: From 5G Buildout to AI Native Networks

November 18, 2025

Compute Layer: Produces computational capacity

Data Layer: Structures and circulates data as a factor of production

Digital-Intelligence Layer: Transforms data and compute into machine capability

Deployment Layer: Embeds machine capability across the economy, society, and state

Governance Layer: Builds rules of ownership, flow, control, and global influence

Full Stack: Spans the entire national data system

3. VOCABULARLY OF STRATEGY
Understanding Digital China means speaking its language

“The report of the 19th National Party Congress stated that “the principal contradiction in our society has transformed into the contradiction between the people’s ever-growing need for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development.” This shift in contradictions is a change of global and historical significance, posing new demands on many aspects of our Party and country. Developing Digital China is about responding to these new changes and new demands, using digitalized means to resolve and address social contradictions. Against this backdrop, the central government explicitly put forward the new concept of building a “Smart Society” in the report.”
“The Mission of Digital China: Building a Smart Society,” Informatization of China Construction, August 29, 2018