Nowadays, digital technology is increasingly integrated with the real economy, and the digital economy has become a powerful new driving force for China's high-quality economic development. Recently, a number of ministries and commissions jointly issued a document to complete the layout design of the national integrated big data center system, and formally launched a comprehensive "East and West Computing" project. This project aims to apportion the centralized computing power demand to regions with high resource support, rationalize the resource allocation of data computing power across the country, improve efficiency as a whole, improve China's digital economic infrastructure, and promote the development and prosperity of the digital economy. The Yangtze River Delta is one of the more concentrated and developed regions of industrialization and urbanization in China.On December 1, 2019, the central government issued the Outline of the Plan for the Integrated Development of the Yangtze River Delta Region, which specifies the goal and mission of "*** together to build a digital Yangtze River Delta", and calls for three levels of new infrastructure, smart applications, and industrial Internet. Collaborative construction. In addition, it is also a good idea to have the ability to use the Internet as a tool to help you get the most out of the Internet," said Mr. Kennedy.

Digital Yangtze River Delta shows good and solid development momentum

One of the most serious issues facing the integration and high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta is how to break through the low-end, homogenized, and clustered industry pattern, and build up a medium- to high-end, high-tech, clustered industrial chain, supply chain, value chain, and industrial integration in the region. To achieve this goal, one of the main factors is to build up a medium-high-end, high-tech and clustered industrial chain, supply chain and value chain in the region, and to realize industrial integration. To achieve this goal, a major **** knowledge is: to comply with the development trend of the digital economy, to realize the transformation and upgrading of the real economy and the deep integration of digital technology innovation drive, is the strategic choice and realization path for the high-quality development of industrial restructuring and integration. 2020, the digital economy of the Yangtze River Delta region will reach a total of 10.83 trillion yuan, accounting for about 28% of the national total scale of the digital economy, and accounting for about 44% of the Yangtze River Delta region's GDP is about 44%. Among them, Jiangsu reaches 4.4 trillion yuan, ranked first in the country. 2021, Suzhou and Zhejiang provinces digital economy core industry added value GDP accounted for more than 10%.

From the point of view of the development of digital infrastructure in the Yangtze River Delta region, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Ningbo lead the way, playing the advantages of digital infrastructure, small and medium-sized cities are not far behind, Taizhou, Jinhua, Huzhou among the top ten in the region. From the perspective of digital industry development in the Yangtze River Delta region, Hefei's digital industry advanced two places to rank among the top five, and Changzhou and Wuhu came up later to realize leapfrog development. From the viewpoint of industrial digitalization in the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai, Suzhou and Ningbo have seized the "new heights" of the industrial Internet, accelerated the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and the Yangtze River Delta has become a frontrunner in industrial digitalization. From the viewpoint of digital economic ecosystem in the Yangtze River Delta region, the application scenarios of digital governance are very rich, and a number of cities are making joint efforts to create an international first-class digital business environment, with Wenzhou becoming a "dark horse" in this field. At the same time, the Yangtze River Delta region is in the conceptual form, infrastructure, industrial layout, public **** services and other aspects of the force, in-depth promotion of all-round integration of high-quality development, data elements of the market-oriented configuration of the country's forefront, for the digital Yangtze River Delta has laid a good foundation and prospects for development.

"East counts west counts" injects new momentum into the digital Yangtze River Delta

Talking about the digital economy can't be separated from the three elements of data, algorithms, and computing power. From a political economy perspective, data is the means of production, computing power is the productivity, and algorithms are the production process. The "East and West" is the integration project that looks at the whole country, integrates the layout of productive forces and production relations, and takes into account the economic and social benefits.

The development of digital industries in the Yangtze River Delta has distinct regional characteristics. First, the foundation of a good ecological, physical manufacturing star city, actively layout and seize the digital new track; second, the scale of growth, in recent years, showing rapid development trend, up to 30% of the national share; third, the transformation and upgrading of strong, industrial digitization has achieved significant results; fourth, the potential for space, the digital economy in the development of the agglomeration of the stage, the future will promote the development of the regional industrial high-quality. Along with the "East Digital West Computing" layout of the landing, the digital Yangtze River Delta will be y integrated into the coordinated and balanced overall development pattern, to enhance the advantages, overcome the shortcomings, and obtain a more scientific and optimized ecological support for the Yangtze River Delta's economic and social development to inject inexhaustible power.

As the leader of the Yangtze River Delta, Shanghai has to play a leading role in the new track of digital economy. Shanghai to comprehensively promote the digital transformation of the city included in the city's "14th Five-Year Plan", put forward the construction of the world's influence on the international digital capital. The first is to enhance its own advantages, accelerate scientific and technological innovation and key core technology breakthroughs, including increasing support for research and development in key core areas, promoting the development of digital industries in key areas, and providing technological protection for the upgrading of the manufacturing industry. The second is to actively lay out and seize new digitalization tracks, strengthen the construction of new infrastructure for the digital economy, accelerate the deep integration of the Internet, big data and artificial intelligence technologies with the real economy, and provide important support for the digital transformation of the manufacturing industry. Thirdly, we will build an industrial Internet industrial highland, give full play to the industrial cluster effect and regional demonstration role in key areas such as new energy automobile, integrated circuit, biomedicine, etc., and realize the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries with the help of industrial Internet. The fourth is to promote the digital Yangtze River Delta industry chain governance, strengthen industrial data classification and management, research and development of relevant unified standards, realize the digital economy industry chain governance mode of profound transformation, and promote the collaborative development of the digital economy region.

Jiangsu clearly puts forward the construction of the national digital economy innovation and development of new high ground, and strive to become an important hub node of the global information network. In the integration of digital technology and the real economy, Jiangsu performance is particularly eye-catching, not only the development of industrial Internet development action plan, accelerate the layout of industrial core software and industrial software enterprises, planning the construction of industrial Internet data center, a new type of Internet exchange centers, but also to promote the enterprise "on the cloud", the benchmark factory and the construction of enterprise digital transformation In addition, we are actively creating a national "5G+Industrial Internet" integration and application pilot zone, and striving to build an innovation-driven, application-led, ecologically active leading region of the country's industrial Internet. With the clear goal of deepening the practice of industrial digitization in Jiangsu, the multi-dimensional changes will surely boost the reconstruction of Jiangsu enterprises in terms of product mode, decision-making mechanism, organizational structure, etc., and completely upgrade the commercial capability and digital technology capability, so as to enable the competitiveness of Jiangsu manufacturing to achieve a leap forward.

Digital Yangtze River Delta should focus on four focuses

The digital economy is based on connectivity, the key to integration, do not cause "information chimneys", "data silos", "technology over application", "the most important thing", "the most important thing", "the most important thing", "the most important thing", "the most important thing", "the most important thing". "The first step is to make sure that you have the right tools for the right job. The digital Yangtze River Delta is the foundation of regional integration and high-quality development, the cornerstone of the overall layout of the development of the "East counts West counts", should focus on four focuses.

The second is to focus on integration and become a high-end head region of the digital economy. The digital economy is naturally free, open, equal, collaborative, **** enjoy the Internet spirit qualities, which is the lifeblood of Internet development, but also the lifeblood of the development of the digital economy. In the era of interconnectivity, everyone is contributing data, and everyone has arithmetic power. According to statistics, the overall idle arithmetic power of China's cell phones is very huge, approximately equal to the arithmetic power of 800 sets of Shenwei - Taihu Lake Light. The Digital Yangtze River Delta should be broad-minded to realize regional cooperation and integration **** win, focus on the development and construction of open source **** enjoyable platforms, and create a digital economy head region.

Third, focus on universal, people-centered digital training for all. The digital economy is a universal **** enjoyment of the economy, should be formed scientists, engineers, the people of the three levels of organic integration of the good development of the ecosystem. Just like when the computer just popularized the same, is a small number of people in the business, and later realized that this does not work, do not popularize the significance of scientific and technological progress will be lost. We should train the public in the digital economy, overcome the "digital barrier", let the people realize the benefits of the digital economy and can widely participate in the development of the digital Yangtze River Delta will consolidate the development of the foundation.

Fourth, pay attention to the right to prevent the disorderly expansion of capital. The digital economy is a data-intensive, technology-intensive and capital-intensive economic activity that cannot be separated from capital support. But on the other hand, it is also extremely easy to bring about monopoly, discrimination, leakage and other unfair competition behaviors due to data advantage, algorithmic advantage, technological advantage as well as capital advantage. In the process of promoting the Digital Yangtze River Delta, the disorderly expansion of capital should be strictly prevented, and the digital platform enterprises should be effectively regulated and standardized and guided. If the digital economy becomes a mythological narrative of capital seeking profits, it will be somewhat contrary to the original intention of the new economic innovation as a dividend for the progress of human society and civilization, and it will not be possible to go steady and far. It is necessary to avoid the hype and the rush, should be in accordance with the law of technological evolution and innovation, science and rationality to promote the project to see the effect of the ground.

Author: He Jianhua, researcher at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and director of the Institute for the New Development of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration at Nantong University.