1 Smart Society - Digital China Wins the Future

Category: 1 Smart Society

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China Central Television visualizes a future Smart Society

1 Smart Society, 2 Strategic Design, 3 Explainer

Smart Society: China’s Vision for a Digital-Intelligent Future

December 1, 2025

Digital China written in English and Chinese suspended over a digital globe

1 Smart Society, 2 Strategic Design, 3 Milestone

Strategy Milestone: Whole-of-City Digitalized Transformation Defined as Path to Smart Society

January 10, 2025

1 Smart Society, 2 Deployment Layer, 3 Analysis

China Unicom Brings “Smart Society” to Hong Kong

March 17, 2023

Digital China: China's national digital strategy

Cyber Great Power: China's national cyber strategy

Smart Society: China's national intelligentization strategy

Digital Triad: Core strategic intersection of China's elite digital strategies

Strategic Design: Top-level view of national strategy

Strategic Ends: Defining the ultimate objectives

Strategic Ways: Methods and courses of action

Strategic Means: Resources and capabilities

Strategic Drivers: Forces of change and momentum

Supporting Strategies: Force multipliers and specialized engines

Full Stack: Spans the entire national system

Compute Layer: Produces computational capacity

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

Innovation Layer: Transforms data and compute into machine capability

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

Governance Layer: Sets the rules for ownership, flow, control, and global influence

Analysis: Interpretive essays and open source analysis

Explainer: Foundational introductions to key concepts

Milestone: Key events, documents, and institutional updates

Translation: Translations and clarification of specialized terms

Update: Short notes, visuals, and references of interest

VOCABULARLY OF STRATEGY
Understanding the "Digital Triad" 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