Strategic Drivers - Digital China Wins the Future

Category: Strategic Drivers

5 Posts

Cover of Social Sciences in China magazine

Analysis, Strategic Drivers

Digital China Reflects Digital Socialism in Practice

March 12, 2025

Analysis, Domestic & International Design, Strategic Drivers

Digital China Just Reframed Great Power Competition. We Missed It.

March 10, 2023

Analysis, Domestic & International Design, Strategic Drivers

Digital China and Chinese Style Modernization: Zhuang Rongwen Signals the Party’s Path Forward

March 4, 2023

Analysis, Strategic Drivers

Informatization and Digitalization Are Two Different Things

February 2, 2023

Conceptual Design, Strategic Drivers, Translation

Outlook Weekly | Digital China Wins the Future

February 19, 2022

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