Reference News Network on December 26** Russia's "Side" weekly ** published an article entitled "China took the lead in using big data to optimize national governance" on December 24, the author is Ivan Zuyenko. The article is compiled as follows:
China is setting up a number of new departments in an effort to achieve new breakthroughs in national governance. The most notable innovation in this regard was the establishment of the National Data Bureau, one of the first national institutions in the world to be responsible for the processing and application of big data systems.
On October 25, the new organization was established. This event may be seen by future historians as one of the important milestones in China's development in the 20s, as China's decision to manage big data at the ** level will have a truly global impact.
Recently, the Institute of International Studies of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations released a report entitled "China's Big Data Strategy: Governance Change, Innovation and Global Competition", focusing on China's digital modernization. Igor Denisov, the author of the report, pointed out that China is the first country in the world to value the importance of data analysis in solving national problems, and the country has described what "big data" is at the theoretical level and uses big data analysis as its competitive advantage.
In large part, this is due to the fact that China is the best at data when it comes to the three pillars of digital modernization – data, algorithms, and computing power. This is logical, since China has a huge population.
Giving independent value to data factors is an important theoretical breakthrough for Chinese sages. In China's policy documents, the digital economy is listed as a new economic form after the agricultural economy and the industrial economy, and its key element is data resources, and the main carrier is the modern information network. In this sense, big data becomes something like oil or steel in the process of industrial modernization. This is a digital "Great Leap Forward" with the task of catching up with and surpassing developed countries and remaining competitive in the face of serious geopolitical challenges.
It is no coincidence that China has completed this process in just a few years, from the theoretical demonstration of the digital economy and data elements, to specific management decisions. In the case of the United States trying to limit and hinder China's technological development, the Chinese have to "leap forward". If China still has a gap in semiconductor production and other fields, then in the field of big data management, China's experience should be said to be world-leading.
In the long run, China's ultimate goal is not simply to improve its competitiveness on the world stage, but to forge a new model of governance. Just as Beijing has proposed to promote the building of a "community with a shared future for mankind" in the field of international relations, in the field of social and political development, China is committed to creating a new model that is more just, not based on exploitation and profit-seeking, but on the harmonious distribution of benefits and obligations.
If implemented, China's system will be a real alternative to some of the most successful models in history, including the American neoliberal model based on bipartisan competition, democratic processes, and lobbying by big business. China's current political system is no weaker than the U.S. political system in responding to many of the current challenges, and with the help of artificial intelligence and big data analytics, a real revolution in the field of socio-political engineering is poised to take place.
Of course, there is still a long way to go before the new model is fully used. But in the long run, everything changes. If there is one country that has already made progress in applying digital tools to socio-political engineering, it is China. (Compiled by Zhao Zhipeng).