Officials: China to intensify efforts for digital infrastructure construction

China will ratchet up efforts to accelerate the building of digital infrastructure and leverage innovative digital technologies to bolster industrial upgrade, as part of a broader push to foster new quality productive forces and promote deeper integration of the digital and real economies, officials and company executives said.

Zhuang Rongwen, head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, stressed the need to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies in key fields, nurture strategic emerging fields and develop future-oriented industries, as well as build digital industry clusters that are globally competitive.

Zhuang made the remarks at the opening ceremony of the Global Digital Economy Conference 2024, which kicked off on Tuesday in Beijing. He also called for efforts to advance high-standard opening-up and expand international cooperation in the digital economy domain.