BEIJING, June 25 (Xinhua) -- China is expected to increase the number of the national big data comprehensive pilot zones, the Economic Information Daily reported on Monday.
According to industry insiders, big data has become a new driving force for high-quality economic development. Against the background of a new round of information technology revolution and industrial change, it is the inevitable direction of economic development to accelerate integration of digital technology with the real economy, fully tap the big data dividend and stimulate the potential of big data.
Earlier, the big data industry development plan (2016-2020) issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) pointed out that by 2020, China will build 10 to 15 big data comprehensive pilot zones, create a batch of big data industry clusters, and form a number of new-type big data industrialization demonstration bases.
According to the statistics, in 2016, China successively approved the construction of eight national big data comprehensive pilot zones, including a national big data comprehensive pilot zone in Guizhou Province, two cross-regional big data comprehensive pilot zones in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and the Pearl River Delta region, four regional demonstration zones in Shanghai, Henan, Chongqing and Shenyang, and a big data infrastructure integrated development pilot zone in Inner Mongolia. (Edited by Hu Pingchao, hupingchao@xinhua.org)
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