Cyber Great Power 网络强国 - Digital China Wins the Future

Tag: Cyber Great Power 网络强国

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China Tower website highlights the Party's three elite digital strategies: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society

Explainer

China’s Digital Triad: How Beijing Plans to Build, Secure, and Transform the Digital State

June 3, 2026

Xi Jinping stands in front of large character board saying Implement the Cyber Great Power Strategy

Explainer

Cyber Great Power: Inside China’s National Cyber Strategy

August 13, 2025

Analysis

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

March 8, 2023

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.

Explainer

China’s Elite Digital Strategies are Dependent, Not Hierarchical

July 26, 2022

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

Analysis

Digital China Requires Systems Thinking (Just Like Singapore)

May 18, 2022

Break-out of China's New Type Infrastructure concept

Explainer

New Type Infrastructure: Industrial Policy for the Digital Age

February 11, 2021

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

Analysis

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”: Why “Cyber Powerhouse” and “Cyber Power” Are Both Wrong

May 15, 2019

Translation

Guangming Daily | Digital Fujian is the Ideological Origin of Digital China

April 23, 2018

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

Translation

State Council Information Office | The “Internet Power” Strategy

March 16, 2018

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.

Cyber Great Power—National cyber strategy: Builds sovereign control, technological strength, and strategic advantage across the networked domain.

Digital China—National digital strategy: Builds the infrastructure, data systems, technologies, and applications for China’s digital-intelligent transformation.

Smart Society—National intelligentization strategy: Extends AI, smart cities, and intelligent governance across society to support socialist modernization.

Digital Triad—Integrated strategic framework: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society seek a unified national digital-intelligent system.

Military-Civil Fusion—Dual-use strategy: Whole-of-nation civil and military integration systematizes dual-use ambiguity.

Analysis—Original analysis of China’s digital strategies, policies, institutions, and strategic development.

Explainer—Comprehensive guides to the strategies, concepts, systems, and terminology shaping Digital China.

Strategy Milestone—Key documents, decisions, and developments that mark the evolution of China’s digital strategies.

Translation—English translations of important Chinese primary sources, with context and explanatory notes.

Update—Shorter reports on new digital policies, speeches, documents, and developments worth watching.

“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