Resources to be ramped up to build ‘Digital China’

A visitor experiences a high-speed virtual reality motorcycle at the Strait International Conference and Exhibition Center during the 7th Digital China Summit in Fuzhou, Fujian province on Thursday. The summit, running from Friday to Saturday, features an interactive area of 56,000 square meters. [Wang Dongming / China News Service]

SHANGHAI: China will ratchet up resources to speed up the construction of digital infrastructure, bolster the digital transformation of the economy and society, and deepen reforms related to the market-oriented allocation of data elements, as part of a broader push to develop new quality productive forces and advance the building of a “Digital China”, officials and experts say.

Vice-Premier Ding Xuexiang said more efforts should be made to give full play to China’s advantages in terms of its massive data scale and rich application scenarios, and unleash the value of data elements so as to create new growth momentum for the country’s high-quality development.