Smart Society 智慧社会 - Digital China Wins the Future

Tag: Smart Society 智慧社会

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Analysis

China’s Military-Civil Fusion Is Changing Form, Part 5/5: Where Strategy Becomes Infrastructure

June 25, 2026

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

Graphic saying Using Advanced Data Infrastructure to Support the Construction of Digital China by Liu Liehong

Analysis

Data Infrastructure as Strategy: Digital China and the Emerging Global Data Order

March 16, 2026

Two Chinese scientists programming large urban "brain" computer system

Analysis

Digital China’s Next Stage Will Be Won or Lost in Smart Cities

December 1, 2025

China Central Television visualizes a future Smart Society

Explainer

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

December 1, 2025

Translation

People’s Daily | “Evolving” Cities, “Renewed” Living

December 1, 2025

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

Strategy Milestone

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

January 10, 2025

Update

CECC Annual Report Highlights Digital China, a U.S. Government First

July 26, 2024

Analysis

China Unicom Brings “Smart Society” to Hong Kong

March 17, 2023

Analysis

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

March 8, 2023

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 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 converge into a unified system for digital-intelligent national transformation.

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

Analysis—My interpretation, argument, or deeper analytical assessment.

Explainer—Foundational guides and structured introductions.

Strategy Milestone—Chronological documents/events marking strategic evolution.

Translation—Primary-source translations, with commentary where appropriate.

Update—Shorter developments, monitoring, notes, and emerging signals.

“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