In the disappearing Dunhuang, visitors can see up to 8 grottoes at a time. Li Deren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said that Digital Dunhuang can make cultural heritage immortal in digital space.

In the increasingly congested cities, drivers’ road rage sometimes breaks out. Zhang Qiang, chief information officer of Xiong'an New Area, said that smart transportation can build a city that never gets stuck in traffic.

In the hardworking fields, farmers worked on the yellow land facing the sky. Liu Pengfei, an agricultural expert of Hebei Unicom, said that digital farms can achieve precise planting, and enable farmers to change from relying on the weather to depending on digital production.

The beautiful scenes of digital economy innovation and development are truly displayed at the 2022 China International Digital Economy Expo, which has just come to an end.

On Nov. 18, 2022 CIDEE with the theme of integrating innovation and digital empowerment was successfully concluded. According to preliminary statistics, there are 247 major signed projects in Hebei province, with a total investment of 246.27 billion Chinese yuan, 41 more than the previous year, and a total investment of 95 billion Chinese yuan.

The Expo is a feast of cutting-edge science and technology, not only a fruitful result of Hebei’s investment and talent introduction. In three days, more than 300 heavyweight guests gathered in the Cloud, blending wisdom and thinking, and talking about the digital future. At the same time, 15 authoritative research reports, including the 2022 China Digital Economy Development Research Report, China Digital Commerce Development Index Report 2021, and the Digital Economy and Rural Revitalization Development Research Report 2022, were released during the meeting. At the same time, 50 innovation achievement awards involving the fields of technology products such as metaverse, aerospace, cloud computing, intelligent transportation, digital low-carbon, and digital energy were selected, including 34 domestic first achievements and 9 black technology achievements. Taking the conference as an opportunity, Hebei's digital economy is facing the future and growing vigorously.

Industrial digitalization

A back while, in the pilot list of 2022 new generation information technology and manufacturing industry integration development announced by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 15 enterprises in Hebei were selected, ranking the second in China. Among them, HBIS Group SHISTEEL Company, Great Wall Motors and CITIC Dicastal were selected as Digital Pilot enterprises, ranking first in China.

At the opening ceremony and theme summit of 2022 China International Digital Economy Expo, the Research Report on the Development of the 2022 China Digital Economy released that, through the dimensions of digital infrastructure, digital economy industry, digital governance and data value, six cities in Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, Tangshan, Langfang, Baoding, Cangzhou and Handan, were listed in the "Top 100 Digital Economy Cities in 2022".

The real economy is the foundation of the economy, and the digital economy is becoming the powerful power support of the real economy. As a large province with traditional industries, Hebei seizes the great opportunity of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, actively promotes digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, and advances the deep integration of digital economy and real economy.

At the opening ceremony and theme summit, 21 projects were signed online. Among them, two "5G+" projects of the government and enterprises attract attention. The "5G+Smart Steel" project between HBIS and China Mobile will strengthen the innovative practice of 5G and smart steel, smart mines, smart logistics, smart parks and other application scenarios, and promote the innovative practice of 5G fully connected factories. The "5G+Smart Forest and Grassland" project of Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Hebei Province and China Unicom Hebei Branch will realize 5G construction and fire prevention informatization in Saihanba Forest Farm, and establish a joint laboratory to further expand cooperation, so as to help the high-quality development of Hebei forestry.

"The industrial Internet has become a new engine driving the high-end, intelligent and green development of the steel industry." Li Yiren, vice general manager of HBIS Group Co., Ltd. and vice president of the World Iron and Steel Development Research Institute, said that the core of the construction of the industrial Internet platform is to realize the full link and efficient collaboration of all elements, all processes, all industrial chains and all value chains. Through the vertical integration within the enterprise, the end-to-end integration of the full life cycle of products and the ecological horizontal integration, the construction of the industrial Internet platform can be carried out from equipment, production lines, factories. The efficient and collaborative digital intelligent manufacturing system from equipment, production line, factory, enterprise to industrial chain ecology will be built, realizing intelligent production, networked collaboration, personalized customization and service-oriented extension. He said that HBIS would work with strategic partners such as China Mobile to continue to promote the deep integration of digital technology and steel manufacturing, focus on creating a national digital pilot enterprise and an intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory (application scenario), and lead the digital transformation and intelligent development of the manufacturing industry in creating a Chinese path to modernization Hebei scenario.

Digital industrialization

The 2022 China International Digital Economy Expo held an online opening ceremony and theme summit, 30 parallel forums, 4 competitions, 3 industry matchmaking activities, a series of innovative achievements release and award activities, and built a cloud exhibition hall with richer themes, more comprehensive content, and more distinctive features.

It can be seen from the projects signed at the 2022 China International Digital Economy Expo that in addition to the vigorous development of industrial digital projects in Hebei, digital industrialization in Hebei Province is also taking positive action and facing the future.

The latest data shows that the number of operating servers of Hebei Data Center has exceeded 2.6 million, ranking fourth in terms of computing power and fifth in terms of storage power. The number of 5G base stations ranks seventh in China, and the network in the main urban areas above the county-level has been fully covered. Xiong'an New Area has been approved as a dedicated Internet data channel, and Zhangjiakou has accelerated the construction of a national computing hub node of the project of channeling the computing resources from the East to the West, which has provided support for the high-quality development of the digital economy.

"We hope to make effective use of natural environment cooling for heat exchange through advanced technology, cooperate with the local consumption of green buildings and renewable energy, build the project into a green energy-saving benchmark demonstration project of channeling the computing resources from the East to the West, and transform energy output into local digital economic development." He Baozhi, the general manager of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Big Data Industry Base Project of E-Cloud, said that its contracted project in Huailai would also build a big data industry ecology based on green computing resources, supported by digital technology, and oriented by intelligent manufacturing and smart data application, to undertake the spillover demand of big data industry in Beijing, and help Zhangjiakou to build “One Belt, Two Wings, Three Zones and Multiple Nodes”.

"Zhangbei is the focus of the cluster in the project of channeling the computing resources from the East to the West." Yin Weinan, the deputy general manager of Zhangbei Digital Dam Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., said that the Aite Yunxiang Zhangbei Data Center project, which is in deep cooperation with state-owned enterprises in Zibo, Shandong, focuses on the current popular visual intelligence and provides complete solutions, and will take the lead in creating the industrialization of video cloud applications.

Open circle of friends

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward that we should accelerate the development of digital economy, promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, and build a digital industrial cluster with international competitiveness. Indeed, digital transformation is constantly enabling our better life and economic and social development.

According to the statistics of the Secretariat of the Executive Committee of China International Digital Economy Expo, as of 16:00 on November 18, 463 online live broadcasting rooms had been built, online video viewing exceeded 100 million, and the official website of the Expo had visited 10.1 million people. It was generally reported that the activities of this Expo closely followed the theme of the times, the content of speeches was novel and rich, the level of speakers was high, and the enthusiasm of the masses to participate was high, which won widespread praise.

In recent years, Hebei Province has focused on the development of digital economy industry, vigorously implemented digital industrialization and industrial digitalization, further pushed forward the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, and constantly promoted the birth of new industries, new business forms and new models. Taking digital Hebei, which is driven by data and integrated with intelligence, as one of the scenarios of Chinese path to modernization Hebei, it has constantly promoted Hebei to accelerate its journey to a new blue ocean of high-quality development of digital economy.

The implementation of a large number of signed projects will certainly promote the development of Hebei's digital economy to achieve new breakthroughs and become an important supporting force to promote the high-quality development of Hebei.

"On the platform of the Digital Economy Expo, we have seen the most cutting-edge technology, the most advanced concepts, and the most open circle of friends. It is a great honor to participate in the experience and learning." As the signatory of Langfang Airport Digital Economy Smart Logistics Park, Wang Zhi, Chairman of Shashidi (Chongqing) Network Technology Co., Ltd., said that he was more interested in the good environment and industrial ecology that the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the People’s Government of Hebei Province are working hard to create for the development of digital economy by taking advantage of the resource advantages of the exhibition to deepen cooperation with the airport area. He firmly believed that as Hebei's leading position in the digital economy has been strengthened, its supporting role has become more obvious. The whole province will certainly show great vitality and potential.