Digital Triad - Digital China Wins the Future

Category: Digital Triad

20 Posts

Strategic Context, Strategy Milestone

Strategy Milestone: NDA Established to Implement Digital China

UN World Data Forum: Implementing the Spirit of the 20th Party Congress

Analysis, Supporting Strategies

UN World Data Forum: Implementing the Spirit of the 20th Party Congress

In 2017, the 19th Party Congress political report proposed to build “Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society,” and Digital China was written into Party and state programmatic documents for the first time.

Digital Triad, Explainer

China’s Elite Digital Strategies are Dependent, Not Hierarchical

Digital global labeled Digital China

Conceptual Design, Explainer

Digital China: No Other Digital Strategy Is Anything Like It

“Chinese Academy of Engineering Academician and Purple Mountain Laboratory Director Liu Yunjie,” China.org, August 8, 2023

Analysis, Cyber Great Power

China’s Digital Design: Cyber Great Power and Digital China Converge to Cyber Test the Industrial Internet

January 27, 2021

China Central Television | 央视: "Striving Towards Cyber Great Power"

Analysis, Cyber Great Power

Cyber Great Power: Why “Cyber Powerhouse” and “Cyber Power” Are Both Misleading

"The 'Internet Power' Strategy," State Council Information Office, March 16, 2018.

Cyber Great Power, Translation

State Council Information Office | The “Internet Power” Strategy

“Cyberspace Administration of China Releases National Cyberspace Security Strategy, Outlines Missions including Safeguarding Cyberspace Sovereignty" (国家网信办发布《国家网络空间安全战略》提出捍卫网络空间主权等任务), Xinhua, December 27, 2016.

Cyber Great Power, Translation

Xinhua | CAC Releases National Cyberspace Security Strategy

December 27, 2016

Central Committee response to Zheng Bijian proposal on Cyber Great Power

Cyber Great Power, Translation

Central Committee | Zheng Bijian’s Proposal on Building a World-Class Cyber Great Power Deserves Careful Study

Zheng Bijian letter to Central Committee on Cyber Great Power

Cyber Great Power, Translation

State Council Secretariat | Build a World Class Cyber Great Power in Ten Years

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