Strategic Plan 战略部署 - Digital China Wins the Future

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

Analysis, Digital Triad

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

June 3, 2026

Two Chinese scientists programming large urban "brain" computer system

Analysis, Smart Society

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

December 1, 2025

China Central Television visualizes a future Smart Society

Analysis, Smart Society

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

December 1, 2025

Smart Society, Translation

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

December 1, 2025

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, Strategic Design

China’s Elite Digital Strategies are Dependent, Not Hierarchical

July 26, 2022

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

Cyber Great Power, Strategic Ends, Translation

State Council Information Office | The “Internet Power” Strategy

March 16, 2018

“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, Strategic Ends, Translation

Xinhua | CAC Releases National Cyberspace Security Strategy

December 27, 2016

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