Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter to the Expo received enthusiastic reception among leaders and masses in Hebei province.

Hebei province will accelerate the development of digital economy and become strong in this field, so as to gather new impetus for high-quality economic growth.

Hebei news network (reporters from Hebei Daily) "To promote high-quality development, China attaches great importance to innovation-driven development, will be firmly committed to its new vision for development by accelerating the industrialization of the digital economy and digitization of industries, and will promote the integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy.” Xi said in the congratulatory letter which received enthusiastic reception among leaders and masses in Hebei province. They all expressed that they will closely follow Chairman Xi Jinping and put these requirements into practise. They will grasp the opportunities, transform and upgrade enterprises by developing digital economy so as to continuously gather momentum for high-quality economic development.

Gao Junzhao, deputy inspector of the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said "In his congratulatory letter, Chairman Xi Jinping highly appraised the digital economy from a global view, and expected for a big success of China Digital Economy Expo. At the same time, he pointed out the developing direction for the digital economy. He also expressed his hope for Hebei to speed up the transformation to the new impetus. In a word, the letter encouraged everyone and we all feel excited. ” He continued that they would have a deep study of the instructions and the important exposition on the development of digital economy in the letter. They will first strengthen the planning research on the development of digital economy in Hebei province, improve the coordination and services of government departments, and build the new information infrastructure. Second, they will speed up the construction of digital smart Xiong’An new area, and promote the construction of comprehensive experimental zone of big data in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Third, they will promote the deep integration of tertiary industry with those of big data, cloud computing, Internet, artificial intelligence, develop strategic emerging industries, and transform and upgrade traditional industries so as to accelerate the transformation to the new impetus in Hebei. Fourth, they will accelerate the construction of new smart cities, for example to develop smart medicine, smart education, smart tourism, smart community, smart people's livelihood. Apart from these, a digital government is also expected. These will be helpful in accelerating the digital transformation of economy and society.

"In his congratulatory letter, President Xi Jinping stressed the importance of developing the digital economy. We all can feel the sense of urgency," said Wang Xiaotao, director of Handan Bureau of Industry and Information Technology. He explained that Handan gave more emphasis to the heavy industry, but the development of digital economy will effectively promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries. Handan will integrate the digital economy into the industries with the plan of "Enterprise on Cloud ".（Enterprise on Cloud refers to the process in which an enterprise uses the Internet as the basis for information infrastructure, management, business and other aspects, and connects social resources, shared services and capabilities through the Internet and cloud computing.）Apart from this , it will offer industrial Internet platforms for the industries of steel, equipment, food, building materials, white goods in order to accelerate the digitization, networking and intelligent transformation of manufacturing industry. At the same time, companies in Handan should actively contact with leading enterprises in the field of big data, promote the application and service of big data, strengthen the cultivation of talents in digital economy, so as to accelerate the construction of "digital Handan". Sun Shunsheng, director of the development and Reform Bureau of Tangshan high tech Zone, said that Tangshan high tech Zone was not only the center of the city's industrial transformation and upgrading, but also the highland of innovation and development. At present, thanks to favorable policies of developing " the integration of big data, cloud computing and Internet of things” and supporting leading enterprises, there are a number of characteristic industries such as robots, high-end equipment manufacturing, emergency equipment manufacturing, and new-generation information and communication technology. Next Tangshan will focus on " big data, cloud computing and Internet of things" with an effort of promoting the deep integration of industrial manufacturing with information, digital economy with real economy. Above all, Tangshan will make use of the advantages in resources to develop key enterprises, and cultivate a number of leading enterprises and “hidden champions” in the industrial fields of Integration platform of resources in big data, intelligent security management system, and urban intelligent management platform, which will contribute to establish Industrial Demonstration Zones of " big data, cloud computing and Internet of things ".

The important exposition of the digital economy in Chairman Xi Jinping's congratulatory letter showed clearly the direction and path for promoting Zhangjiakou's high-quality economic development, and preparing for the Winter Olympic Games successfully in 2022 and developing local economy," said Jiang Wendong, director of the Bureau of industry and information of Zhangjiakou. He said that with opportunities offered by the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Winter Olympics, and the construction of national renewable energy demonstration area, they will promote the deep integration of big data and the real economy, the construction of Beijing- Tianjin-Hebei big data comprehensive experimental zone, and the construction of innovative city and digital city, so as to lead the big data industry to improve the quality and efficiency of Zhangjiakou's economy. In particular, Zhangjiakou will prepare for a scientific and technological Winter Olympics, following the national plan of holding a scientific and technological Winter Olympics and the provincial action plan of "scientific Winter Olympics and Intelligent Chongli". At the mean time they will carry out a number of projects to solve the key technical problems and to demonstrate as models in the aspects of smart energy, intelligent transportation, intelligent security, and intelligent medical care.

"We will see to it that the requirements imposed in the congratulatory letter of President Xi Jinping should be satisfied; we will promote the vigorous development of the digital economy. These require the cultivation of high-quality professionals," said Peng Jidong, director of the Higher Education Department of the provincial education department. He also said that we must cultivate more talents in digital economy so as to be consistent with the national development strategy and the economic and social development in Hebei province. We should encourage and support qualified colleges and universities to develop new majors of information technology, Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, modern service industry and other related disciplines around digital economy industries. It’s advisable to deepen the reform of talent cultivation model and innovate the talent training mechanism, promote the collaborative education of companies and schools, and strengthen the construction of curriculum system and experimental teaching platform for the relevant majors of digital economy, so as to provide strong support for the development strategy of digital economy in Hebei Province. Dong Yongfeng, vice president of the school of Artificial intelligence and Data Science in Hebei University of Technology, said that they would continue to shoulder the responsibilities in personnel training, academic research and social services, further deepen the cooperation among industry, University and research institute, and meet the talents’ needs of Hebei Province in implementing the innovation driven development strategy. In talents cultivation, by making good use of the opportunities offered by collaborative development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and their own advantages, they will focus on producing talents in research on big data processing and intelligent computing, image processing and pattern they would strengthen the international cooperation, for instance they will carry out project cooperation and talents training with well-known universities worldwide. (reporters Pan Wenjing, Liu Jianying, Liu Yutong, Gao Zhenfa, and Ma Li)