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China Central Television visualizes a future Smart Society

Analysis, Smart Society

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

December 1, 2025

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

Analysis, Digital China, Strategic Ends

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

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

Analysis, Digital China, Strategic Design

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

Digital China, Strategic Design, Translation

People’s Daily | Advance Chinese Style Modernization Through Digital China Construction

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

Digital China, Milestone, Strategic Design

Strategy Milestone: Digital China Elevated to Global Strategy

February 27, 2023

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

Analysis, Digital China, Full Stack

Digital China Requires Systems Thinking (Just Like Singapore)

Digitalized Transformation of the Five Sphere Integrated Plan is tagged as one of Xi Jinping’s greatest theoretical achievements in the Sinicization of Marxism.

Digital China, Explainer, Strategic Ways

Digitalized Transformation of the Five Sphere Integrated Plan. Sounds Dense. Changes Everything.

February 23, 2022

Digital China, Full Stack, Translation

Study Times | Construction of Digital China Requires Systems Thinking

The structure and intent of Digital China can be outllined using the familiar “ends, ways, and means” nomenclature from Western strategy construction.

Digital China, Explainer, Strategic Design

Digital China’s Strategic Framework: Ends, Ways, and Means

February 22, 2021

Digital China, Strategic Ways, Update

Digital Economy Gives the World a “China Model”

November 29, 2017

Cyber Great Power—National cyber strategy: Cyber sovereignty, network governance, and asymmetric power secure the digital realm.

Digital China—National digital strategy: Integrated infrastructure, data systems, and intelligent platforms build the digital state.

Smart Society—National intelligentization strategy: Algorithmic governance, smart cities, and digital lifespaces enable socialist modernization.

Digital Triad—Core strategic intersection: Structural convergence of elite state strategies drives systemic power.

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

Strategic Design—Top-level view: Comprehensive digitalization lifts core competitiveness and societal efficiency.

Strategic Drivers—Forces of change and momentum: Digital intelligence reconstructs the forces of production.

Strategic Ends—Ultimate objectives: Competitiveness, Smart Society, and regime stability support socialist modernization.

Strategic Ways—Methods and courses of action: Digital transformation reconfigures the Five Sphere Integrated Plan.

Strategic Means—Resources: Data systems, New Type Infrastructure, and industrial ecosystems anchor implementation.

Supporting Strategies—Force multipliers: Complementary engines accelerate and amplify digital transformation.

Full Stack—Governs and controls data: Integrated stack architecture ensures regime stability and national power.

Governance Layer—Builds efficiency: National governance modernization drives systemic regulatory efficiency.

Deployment Layer—Embeds capability: Artificial Intelligence Plus embeds systemic intelligence across sectors.

Innovation Layer—Provides capability: Advanced AI theory and core technologies fuel usable intelligence.

Data Layer—Organizes resources: The National Data Resource System anchors national data assets.

Compute Layer—Produces capacity: The National Unified Computing Power Network powers systemic capacity.

Analysis—Interpretive essays: Deep-dive research and open-source intelligence dissect China’s digital landscape.

Explainer—Foundational guides: Clear policy primers and technological overviews map core ecosystems and strategies.

Milestone—Strategic timelines: Essential primary documents and institutional tracking trace historical policy events.

Translation—Linguistic decoding: English translations and specialized language analysis decode Party terminology.

Update—Real-time monitoring: Fast-take research notes and specialized tracking capture digital events.

VOCABULARY 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