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commerce platform, the proportion of online retail sales to the total
retail sales of social consumer goods, the number of government
websites and mobile Internet penetration were relatively great,
playing a decisive role in the development of digital economy.
2. Analysis of the overall score. On the whole, the overall digital
economy development in Qingdao from 2013 to 2017 showed an
accelerating trend. The score of 0.2696 in 2017 reached the highest
level in the five years; the lowest score of 0.1472 in 2013 was only
about half of that in 2017. From the perspective of key fields, all the
five major fields showed positive growth, and the growth rates were
accelerating. "Digital industrialization" witnessed the highest
development rate, doubling in five years, while "industrial
digitalization" had the lowest development rate, with only 50%
growth. "Digital infrastructure" accounted for the largest proportion,
up to 30.8% of the digital economy in 2017, while "digital livelihood"
accounted for the smallest proportion, only 12.6% of the digital
economy in 2017. "Digital infrastructure" made the greatest
contribution, up to 35.5% of contribution rate in 2017, while
"industrial digitalization" made the smallest contribution, only 4.0% of
contribution rate in 2017.
(II) Comparison among cities
This paper compares the relevant indexes of some cities in China. Since
we can't get all the data of other cities, we only make a comparative analysis
of software business income with scientific and technological innovation.
1. Income of software business
As a typical industry of digital industrialization, the software industry is of
great significance to reflect the development of digital economy. In terms of
the number of enterprises, there were 1,640 software companies in Qingdao
in 2017, ranking third in the sub-provincial cities, which was 862 and 96 lower
than Wuhan (2,502) and Jinan (1,736) respectively. From the perspective of
software business income, the total volume in Qingdao was RMB180.21 billion,
ranking the seventh. But it had a large gap to other cities, only accounting for
35% of Shenzhen, 51% of Nanjing, 55% of Hangzhou, and was RMB1.78 billion
lower than the average level of sub-provincial cities. In short, the number of
software enterprises in Qingdao is large, but the average income is low, and
the growth rate of business income continues to decline. The overall
development lags behind such cities as Shenzhen and Hangzhou, and shows
a certain gap to Nanjing and Chengdu.
2. Scientific and technological innovation
Original innovation is one of the key factors to develop digital economy.
Compared with municipalities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,
Shenzhen and Hangzhou, Qingdao still has a big gap in scientific and

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