Recently, 17 departments, including the National Data Administration, jointly issued the "Data Elements" Three-Year Action Plan (2024-2026), aiming to give full play to the multiplier effect of data elements and empower economic and social development. It is an inevitable requirement to promote high-quality development to give full play to the amplification, superposition, and multiplication role of data elements, and build a digital economy with data as the key element. The construction of digital ** is a hot spot and focus of reform related to the modernization of national governance, and digital construction should play an important role in serving the major strategies of the party and the country and promoting high-quality economic and social development.
Digital is a new form under the new economic, social and information technology conditions. Building digital is an inevitable requirement for actively adapting to the development of the times, and it is a realistic choice to enhance the initiative in complex and severe international competition. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, great achievements have been made in the construction of digital ** in various places, and the strategic significance in the modernization of national governance has become more prominent. From the perspective of the internal system, the construction of digital infrastructure has been continuously improved, the "Internet + government service" has been upgraded and developed, and the data barriers have been broken through the highly integrated government service integration platform, and the first level has been reshaped, optimized and streamlined the process at all levels, from "running at most once" to "doing one thing efficiently", and comprehensively implementing the policy of facilitating the people and benefiting enterprises, providing strong support for optimizing the business environment. Relevant data show that from 2012 to 2022, the international ranking of China's e-government development index has risen from 78th to 43rd, which is one of the fastest rising countries. From the outside of the system, digital construction is an important practice to respond to the concerns of the masses and innovate governance methods based on new technologies, which is the embodiment of the whole process of people's democracy and promotes the continuous improvement of governance efficiency.
Digital construction is not a simple technical problem, but a system composed of multiple levels or dimensions such as system, technology, and society. There is a two-way relationship between digital technology and **. In practice, more attention has been paid to the role of digital technology in this direction, and the support of new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence is the key to building digital technology, driving the transformation of functions, institutional adjustment and optimization, and the reform of the management system and the coordination and efficiency of operation. On the other hand, the role of digital technology should also be paid more attention to, while digital technology plays a role in the world, the concept, value orientation, and power allocation also shape the adaptability of digital technology, so that it can better serve the implementation of the party's line, principles and policies, and the modernization of national governance. Digital technology is intrinsically rooted in institutional values, power and responsibility relationships, and economic and social networks, and the logic of digital technology should be integrated with the logic of operation, and the function of data technology should be fully utilized through the reform of the system and mechanism.
Combined with the progress of the construction of digital ** in various localities, in the future, the digital ** that meets the requirements of the national strategy should be fully built, and several relationships should be further handled. The construction of digital ** should adhere to the leadership of the party, run the party's overall leadership through all fields and links of digital construction, and use digital technology to drive the modernization of the ** governance system and governance capacity, so as to provide strong support for Chinese-style modernization.
It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between digital technology and serving the people. Adhering to the people-centered development philosophy and taking the people's needs as the guide to comprehensively build digital ** is the embodiment of the party's fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly in the construction of digital **. The "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Digital **" puts forward the main goal of the basic completion of digital ** by 2035, of which two key words are "agile and efficient" and "fair and inclusive", which is the value orientation of digital ** construction. The construction of digital ** and digital governance should not be centered on digital technology, but must adhere to the people-centered development philosophy, so that the results of digital ** construction can benefit all people more and more fairly.
It is necessary to coordinate the relationship between digital development and security. Avoid technological determinism, technological dependence, or technological substitution, because the embedding of digital technologies in the ** system must take into account economic, political and social foundations. The operation of digital technology is inseparable from society, and the deep integration of digital technology and economic, political, cultural, social and ecological civilization construction should be based on the dynamic and stable order of society. To this end, it is necessary to guard against the risks and challenges brought by digital technology and its transformation to the stable development of society, adhere to the supremacy of the people, improve the digital security system that integrates laws, systems, management and technology, and orderly promote the sharing of data resources and the opening of public data resources.
(Author: Sun Caihong, researcher at the Institute of Political Science, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences).
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