It has changed the production, distribution, exchange, consumption and other aspects of the traditional economy and brought new vitality and opportunities for economic development. Digital economy refers to an economic form that uses digital and information technology to support economic growth and social development.
It includes digital content integration (such as digital media, digital music, digital games, etc. ), digital infrastructure (such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, big data, etc. ), digital commerce (such as e-commerce, mobile payment, etc. ) and digital governance (such as digital government, digital education, digital medical care, etc.). ). The main features of the digital economy include informationization, inclusiveness, innovation and high efficiency. First of all, the core of digital economy is informatization, and information technology has become an important support for the development of digital economy.
Development history
The development of digital economy has formed a wide range of knowledge in the world because the factors of production in the current social and economic life have undergone tremendous changes, and data has become a new and most important factor of production. The digital economy based on data has become a new form of economic and social development, forming new kinetic energy, reshaping the economic development structure and profoundly changing the production and lifestyle.
As a new economic form, digital economy is based on information and communication technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, blockchain, mobile Internet, etc., and the innovation and integration of information and communication technologies drive the transformation of social production mode and the improvement of production efficiency.