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CPS1858 Wei Gang et al.
digital economy". In 1997, Japan's MITI began to use the term "digital
economy". In 1998, U.S. Department of Commerce issued the report The
Emerging Digital Economy. Since then, it has continued to concern about the
"new economy" phenomenon closely related to Internet technology, and has
released a number of annual research results under the theme of "digital
economy". China also attaches great importance to the promotion on
economy and society brought by information and communication technology,
but didn't put forward the concept until recent years. In the Report on the
Work of the Government of 2015, "Internet +" was first proposed, to accelerate
further development of "Internet +" by promoting the role of Internet in
integration and innovation. Additionally, the requirement to accelerate the
growth of digital economy was also put forward therein. In 2018, the central
government issued Outline of Digital Economy Development Strategy, and
Qingdao also issued Digital Shandong Development Plan (Exposure Draft).
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A, Digital economy emerged at the end of the 20 Century and obtained
competitive development in various countries. Especially in recent years,
because of the deep integration of information technology and network
technology, digital economy has boomed and become an important engine
for the development of "new economy."
(I) Implicationof digital economy
1. Definition. This paper considers that digital economy mainly refers to
a series of economic and social activities that take digital knowledge
and information as the key production factors, take the innovation of
digital technology as the core driving force, take modern information
network as the important carrier, to create new industries,
continuously improve the digitalization and intellectualization levels
of traditional industries, and accelerate the reconstruction of
economic and social development and government governance
modelsthrough the in-depth integration of digital technology and
real economy.
2. Main contents. Digital economy covers digital industrialization and
industrial digitalization. Digital industrialization is also known as the
basic part of digital economy, which means that the information and
communication industry, including electronic information production,
telecommunications, software and information technology services,
the Internet and related services, need to be digitized. Industrial
digitalization is also known as the integrated part of digital economy,
which means the increase in production quantity, quality and
production efficiency brought about by the application of digital
technology in traditional industries, and its new output constitutes an
important part of the digital economy, including "digital+" primary
industry, "digital+" second industry, and "digital+" tertiary industry,

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