…building a Digital China is an important engine for the advancement of Chinese-style modernization in the digital era and powerfully supports the construction of a new advantage in national competitiveness. Accelerating the building of a Digital China has important significance for, and deep influence on, the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country and the comprehensive advancement of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Graham Webster, et al, “Translation: ‘Plan for the Overall Layout of Building a Digital China,’ ” DigiChina, March 3, 2023
On February 27, 2023, Xinhua reported that the Central Committee and State Council had “recently” issued the “Plan for the Overall Layout of Building a Digital China.” Find the DigiChina translation of the Xinhua report below:
Additional analyses on the “Plan for the Overall Layout of Building a Digital China” (aka “Plan for the Global Layout of Digital China Construction”):
- David Dorman, “The Digital China ‘Plan’ is New, but ‘Digital China’ is Not,” Digital China Wins the Future, February 27, 2023
- David Dorman, “Is This How the Party Builds a Foreign Narrative on Digital China?,” Digital China Wins the Future, March 1, 2023
- David Dorman, “‘Digital China’ Is Going Global: The Top Five Things to Know Right Now,” Digital China Wins the Future, March 5, 2023
- Haluza, Zac, “Building a Digital China,” Root Access, March 7, 2023
- David Dorman, “Digital China Goes Global: ‘Embracing Data for a Win-Win Future,'” Digital China Wins the Future, March 8, 2023
- Pao, Jeff, “China’s grand plan for a world-beating digital future,” Asia Times, March 8, 2023
- David Dorman, “Digital China: Xi Just Redefined Great Power Competition, Again,” Digital China Wins the Future, March 10, 2023
- Pao, Jeff, “Chinese industries to go digital or die; ‘Digital China’ plan emphasizes ‘industrial internet’ in a state-led drive for world-class competitiveness and supply chain supremacy,” Asia Times, March 11, 2023
- Wu, Lianfeng, Four Impacts of the National Digital Plan on the Acceleration of Digital Businesses in China, IDC China, March 20, 2023
Translation Notes:
- David Dorman, “The Digital China ‘Plan’ is New, but ‘Digital China’ is Not,” Digital China Wins the Future, February 27, 2023