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Opening Ceremony of 2nd Digital China Summit
On May 6, Huang Kunming, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPC and Minister of Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech, during which he emphasized the necessity to deeply implement President Xi’s important thoughts on Internet-based development, actively promote the development of the Digital China program and Intelligent Society program and give full rein to the driving and guiding role of informatization to promote quality development.
As Huang pointed out, the historic junction of the ever-developing information revolution and the great revival of the Chinese people had injected enormous vigor and vitality into China's economic reform, opening-up and socialist modernization initiative. Therefore, it was necessary to closely grasp the favorable timing of the new-round science and technology revolution and the important period of strategic opportunity for the development of China, turn the second-mover advantage in Internet technological innovation, the leadership advantage in technology application and the market advantage into the development edge in digital economy and thus set a new milestone in the development of the Digital China program.
As Huang emphasized, it was necessary to highlight the importance of making breakthroughs in core technologies, give full rein to the role of various innovation makers, strengthen intellectual property protection and promote the sustainability of innovation; insist on the early construction of information infrastructures, promote the integration and sharing of urban and rural information resources, establish a smooth channel of information flow, narrow the gap in digitalization and provide new development initiatives for the digital economy; insist on digitalization-based industrial restructuring, facilitate the green upgrading of conventional industries, explore for new technologies, new industrial modes and new business modes and foster new sources of economic growth; insist on bringing benefits and conveniences to citizens, diversify the channels and carriers of public services and increase the equalization, generality and convenience level of public services; insist on opening-up, cooperation and win-win partnership, strengthen cooperation with other countries in Internet development and integrate into the global development of digital economy with a more open attitude.
Mr.Wang Qinmin, Vice Chairman of the 12th CPPCC and Director of the National E-government Expert Committee, attended the opening ceremony.
As stated by Yu Weiguo, Secretary of CPC Fujian Provincial Committee, in the opening ceremony, Fujian would fully implement the spirits of the important speech of President Xi and his important instructions on Digital China at his meeting with Fujian Delegation during the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress; take the lead in promoting the deep integration of informatization and industrialization, facilitating the development of digital economy, applying informatization to improve government administration and service level and social governance level and promoting, assuring and improving people’s livelihood; further stimulate innovation and venturing; create new momentums; enhance the development initiatives of informatization; improve the level of informatization; and try to set a new milestone in the development of digital economy and establish a model zone of Digital China construction.
As stated by Zhuang Rongwen, Vice Minister of Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the CPC, Director of the Office of the Central Cyberspace Affairs and Director of the National Cyberspace Affairs, the success of the first Digital China Summit set a new milestone in Digital China construction. It was necessary to deeply implement President Xi’s important thoughts of Internet-based development and important instructions on Digital China construction; fulfill the various construction tasks of Digital China; and give full rein to the guiding and driving role of informatization to social and economic development; and allow informatization to benefit the society and the people.
Tang Dengjie, Governor of Fujian Province, hosted the opening ceremony. Cui Yuying (Chairman of the People’s Political Consultative Conference of Fujian Province) Xu Guanhua (academician of the CAS) and Wang Ning (Deputy Secretary of the CPC Fujian Provincial Committee and Secretary of the CPC Fuzhou Municipal Committee) attended the opening ceremony. Leading officials of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Development and Reform Committee delivered a speech at the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony was also attended by relevant leading officials of the CPC Provincial Committee, Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress, Fujian Provincial Government and the People’s Political Consultative Conference of Fujian Province; leading officials of the State Council and relevant ministries and commissions; relevant leading officials of the host and guest provinces; leading officials of some state-owned enterprises affiliated to the State Council; leading officials of Fuzhou and Fuzhou New District; senior management of leading Internet enterprises and famous enterprises; and relevant experts and scholars.
The 2nd Digital China Summit will be held in Fuzhou from May 6 to 8. Having “Fully implement the new development philosophy, using IT application to foster new growth drivers, make further progress, and achieve greater success” as the theme, this Summit was sponsored by the National Office Cyberspace Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Industry and the People’s Government of Fujian Province. The Summit is expected to become a national platform for release of informatization development policies, a platform for the display of e-Government and digital economy development achievements, a platform for exchange of the construction theories, experiences and practices of Digital China and a platform to pool global resources for Digital China construction.
2019-05-07Xinhua News Agency & Fujian Daily