Analysis - Digital China Wins the Future

Category: Analysis

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Digital Government Under Xi: Serving the People, Strengthening Accountability, and Safeguarding the Party

Digital Government Under Xi: Serving the People, Strengthening Accountability, and Safeguarding the Party

February 23, 2023

Informatization and Digitalization Are Two Different Things

February 2, 2023

Trigraph of images on China's digital path to win the future

What Does “Digital China Wins The Future” Really Mean?

January 30, 2023

Liu Mixia, "The Construction of Digital China Requires Systems Thinking," Study Times, June 4, 2021

Digital China Requires Systems Thinking (Just Like Singapore)

"Accelerate New Type Infrastructure Construction, Comprehensively Speed Up Digital China Construction," Screenshot from China Distance Education Holdings Educational Video on New Type Infrastructure, June 15, 2021

New Type Infrastructure Is Mostly Unknown Outside China. Even Xi Must Be Surprised.

“Who Can Pluck the Stars from the Sky," 2021 China Satellite Internet Industry Report and User Survey

Jiutian MSI | China Must Build a Satellite Internet Network; Russia-Ukraine War Increases Urgency

New Type Infrastructure: The “Information Aorta” for National Development

Chart of 2022 Industrial Internet Special Working Group

China’s Industrial Internet: SASTIND Points to Military-Civil Fusion in Shipbuilding

Eastern Data, Western Computing: A “Server” for the Digital Silk Road

Digital Gulf of Tonkin Plan: Expanding the China-ASEAN Digital Economy

Key One: China has an elite digital triad of national strategies: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society. Together, they drive the country's digital-intelligent transformation into a Modernized Socialist Great Power. Although this website focuses on Digital China, understanding its full scope requires knowing all three.

Key Two: Digital China is both a strategy and a stack. The strategy—an ends, ways, and means framework—explains how the Party generates and employs digital power. The stack—a layered system architecture—shows how that power is built. Together, they provide an integrated model for understanding China’s national digital strategy.

“The struggle between China and the United States in cyberspace is intensifying. The U.S. policy of containment against China has expanded from physical space to cyberspace, aiming to place China in a passive position. Cyber warfare is no longer a matter of whether we want to fight it or not; it has reached a point where we have no choice but to respond."
Zheng Bijian, Face the Challenge with Comprehensive Planning; Strive to Build a World Class Cyber Great Power in Ten Years, State Council Secretariat Second Bureau, April 3, 2013

“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