Strategic Plan 战略部署 – Digital China Wins The Future

Tag: Strategic Plan 战略部署

10 Posts

Two Chinese scientists programming large urban "brain" computer system

1 Deployment Layer, 2 Analysis & Commentary

Next Stage of Digital China will be Won or Lost in Smart Cities

December 1, 2025

1 Deployment Layer, 2 Translation & Terminology

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

December 1, 2025

Map of China at the center of the global digital economy

1 Deployment Layer, 2 Briefs & Notes

Why Did CCTV Edit This Out: Build Digital China to Reclaim the Center of the World Economy

November 13, 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.

China’s Elite Digital Strategies are Dependent, Not Hierarchical

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

2 Translation & Terminology

State Council Information Office | The “Internet Power” Strategy

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

China’s Digital Triad: Strategic Framework for National Transformation

October 18, 2017

China Central Television visualizes a future Smart Society

Smart Society: Digital China’s Blueprint for an Intelligentized Future

October 18, 2017

“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.

2 Translation & Terminology

Xinhua | CAC Releases National Cyberspace Security Strategy

December 27, 2016

Digital China characters suspended in futuristic digital urban scene

1 Full Stack, 2 Explainer

Digital China: A Complete Guide to China’s National Digital Strategy

December 16, 2015

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

1 Full Stack, 2 Explainer

Cyber Great Power: Inside China’s National Cyber Strategy

February 27, 2014

Compute Layer: Produces computational capacity

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

Intelligence 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

Full Stack: Spans the entire national data system

3. VOCABULARLY OF STRATEGY
Understanding Digital China 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