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The full version of the "White Paper on China's Smart Economy Development" is released

Every technological and industrial revolution has brought about innovation and reconstruction of economic and social life. At present, smart economy is gradually changing our production, life, and social governance, bringing human society into the stage of intelligent community. In June of this year, the China Development Research Foundation and Baidu jointly released the abridged version "New Infrastructure, New Opportunities: China's Smart Economy Development White Paper" (after this referred to as the white paper), and the full version of the white paper was officially released on December 15. The white paper was consulted by Fang Jin, secretary-general of China Development Research Foundation, and Wang Haifeng, chief technology officer of Baidu.


It is the first domestic white paper to map out a landscape of the new smart economy comprehensively. The report introduces the achievements and prospects of the smart economy with artificial intelligence technology as the core driving force under the background of the digital economy. It analyzes the impact on the economy and society. And put forward eight constructive suggestions on how to accelerate the development of my country's innovative economy.


"New Infrastructure, New Opportunities: White Paper on China's Smart Economy Development" Full Version


The white paper clarifies the primary contents and development trend of the intelligent economy, explains the relationship between the smart economy and the digital economy, and proposes that the smart economy is based on artificial intelligence (AI) as its core driving force, with 5G, cloud computing, big data, Internet of Things, and edge computing, blockchain, mixed reality (MR), quantum computing and other new generation of information technology and intelligent technology as support, through the industrialization of smart technology and the upgrading of traditional industries. Compared with different economic structures, the smart economy mainly presents four characteristics: data-driven, human-machine collaboration, cross-sector integration, and co-creation and sharing.