Robots conduct welding work at the workshop of an automobile manufacturing factory in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 14, 2023. (Photo by Zhang Jingang/Xinhua)
BEIJING, April 4 (Xinhua) -- China will continue promoting development of digital economy this year, Sun Wei, head of the innovation and high-tech development department of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at a press conference held on Monday.
Efforts will be made to strengthen policy and institutional system development, moderately deploy digital infrastructure construction in advance, boost innovative development of digital sectors, accelerate digital transformation of industries, improve digital public services, and deepen international cooperation in digital economy, according to Sun.
China's digital economy has achieved remarkable achievements in recent years.
In terms of digital infrastructure, China had over 2.38 million 5G base stations by the end of February, according to latest data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
The country plans to add around 600,000 5G stations this year, bringing the total number of such stations to over 2.9 million by the end of 2023, Jin Zhuanglong, minister of industry and information technology said earlier this month.
The scale of the digital industry in China has increased steadily. MIIT data showed that the operating income of electronic information manufacturing was 15.4 trillion yuan in 2022, with the revenue of software sector exceeding 10 trillion yuan for the first time to reach 10.8 trillion yuan. (Edited by Su Dan with Xinhua Silk Road, sudan@xinhua.org)
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