China will ratchet up resources to accelerate the building of basic systems for data and leverage innovative digital technologies to bolster industrial upgrading, part of a broader push to promote the high-quality development of the economy and foster new quality productive forces, said officials, company executives and experts.

中国政府官员、企业高管和专家表示，中国将加大资源投入，加快数据基础制度建设，利用创新数字技术促进产业升级，这是推动经济高质量发展、培育新质生产力的广泛举措之一。

Heightened efforts should be made to boost the deeper integration of the digital and real economies, vigorously develop the core industries of the digital economy, and advance the digital transformation of industries, said Qin Boyong, vice-chairwoman of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the country's top political advisory body.Qin made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2024, which kicked off on Wednesday in Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province.

8月28日，全国政协副主席、民建中央常务副主席秦博勇在2024年中国国际大数据产业博览会开幕式上强调，应持续促进数字经济与实体经济深度融合，大力发展数字经济核心产业，大力推进产业数字化转型。

She stressed the need to speed up the construction of basic systems for data and data infrastructure, press ahead with reforms related to the market-oriented allocation of data elements, use digital technologies to drive the urban digital transformation and the development of digital villages, and expand international cooperation in the digital economy domain.

她强调，要协同完善数据基础制度和数据基础设施，推进数据要素市场化配置改革。通过数字化手段推动区域数字协同发展，统筹推动城市全域数字化转型和数字乡村建设，不断拓展数字产业国际合作广度和深度。

Xu Lin, Party secretary of Guizhou, said the province will make more efforts to build intelligent computing industrial clusters with a key focus on artificial intelligence technology, nurture a batch of industry-specific large language models, push forward the construction of data centers and expand the application scenarios of data elements in more fields.

中共贵州省委书记、省人大常委会主任徐麟表示，贵州省将培育以人工智能为驱动的智算发展新模式，打造全国领先的智算集群，加快引进一批通用大模型，推进数据中心建设，数字应用场景实现新拓展。

Often dubbed China's big data hub, the mountainous province of Guizhou is the country's first national big data comprehensive pilot zone, and has been promoting the big data industry as the backbone of the province's high-quality social and economic development.

贵州作为全国首个国家级大数据综合试验区，常被称为中国的大数据枢纽，始终将大数据产业作为推动全省经济社会高质量发展的支柱产业。

Xu said that Guizhou's total computing power has reached 40 EFLOPS, making it one of the regions with the strongest intelligent computing capabilities nationwide. EFLOPS is a unit of the speed of computer systems, equal to one quintillion floating-point operations per second.

徐麟介绍，贵州全省总算力规模已达到40 EFLOPS，已成为全国智算能力最强的地区之一。EFLOPS是计算机系统速度的单位，相当于每秒进行百亿亿次浮点运算。

Liu Liehong, head of the National Data Administration, said the administration is working with relevant departments to study and formulate policies concerning the data industry, in order to unleash the value of massive data resources and improve the competitiveness of China's data industry.

国家数据局党组书记、局长刘烈宏表示，国家数据管理局正会同有关部门研究制定产业发展政策，将我国规模市场优势、海量数据优势转化为产业优势，提高我国数据产业的竞争力。

"As a new type of production factor, data has been deeply integrated into various areas of the economy and society," Liu said, while emphasizing the significance of the cultivation of the data industry in fostering new quality productive forces and driving the country's high-quality economic growth.

“数据作为新型生产要素，已经深刻融入经济社会各领域，”刘烈宏说，同时强调了培育数据产业是发展新质生产力、推动高质量发展的必然选择。

Chen Zhongyue, chairman of China Unicom, said the company is beefing up efforts to promote the construction of new types of infrastructure, facilitate the development of next-generation wireless communication technology, and accelerate the industrial applications of its self-developed large language model, called Yuanjing.

中国联通党组书记、董事长陈忠岳表示，中国联通正在加快建设联网基础设施，推进新一代无线通信技术，加快升级元景大模型，提高应用开发效率，丰富行业大模型，适合更多行业应用。

Chen said the company has developed 35 industry-specific Yuanjing models, which have benefited urban governance, information consumption and industrial manufacturing, adding that more efforts are needed to make breakthroughs in the key technologies of big data and LLMs, and provide more intelligent, convenient digital services in Guizhou.

陈忠岳说，中国联通已开发了35个元景行业大模型，赋能城市治理、经济运行、信息消费、工业制造等领域成效明显。并表示期待攻关大数据大模型等关键技术，打造更加智能、便捷、友好的数字服务。

Qi Xiangdong, chairman of Chinese cybersecurity company Qi-Anxin Technology Group, said that as new cybersecurity-related challenges, such as privacy and data leakage, have appeared along with the development of AI and data sharing, safeguarding data security is important in bolstering data transactions and developing the digital economy.

中国网络安全企业奇安信科技集团董事长齐向东说，随着人工智能和数据共享的发展，数据隐私和安全问题成为新的挑战，保障数据安全对促进数据交易、发展数字经济具有重要意义。

Source:China Daily

Editor: ChenDawei

Senior Editor: PangBo