Pursuing an Information Technology-driven Modernization and Developing Digital Economy with Data as the Key Element

Wang Jiacheng

Digital economy, as a new economic and industrial form in the present-day world, emerges with the advent of a new round of technological and industrial revolution with information technology as the core. From the perspective of economic form, digital economy is a new economic system, all fields, levels and regions of which, including production, supply, circulation, distribution and consumption, are making full use of information technology and digital technology such as the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, 5G, block chain, and all kinds of material and spiritual products and services. This new economic form will promote the structural optimization, transformation and upgrading of economic development, and improve quality and efficiency, improve total factor productivity, and meet the growing needs of the people for a better life. From the perspective of industrial form, digital economy is a new industrial system, which exists in all kinds of industries, driven by information technology and digital technology innovation. This new industrial form will cultivate and strengthen new technologies, new products, new industries, new business type and new models, promote the optimization of industrial development structure, transformation and upgrading, and improve quality and efficiency, consolidate the foundation for sustained and healthy economic development, and support and guarantee the construction of a modern economic system. At present, with the in-depth development of economic globalization and the deep integration of informatization and industrialization characterized by digitalization, networking and intelligence, speeding up the promotion of digital economy to economic and industrial development and building a digital country has become a broad consensus of the international community and an important part of deepening modernization in countries all over the world.

China attaches great importance to the development of digital economy. Under the guidance of the new development philosophy, emphasizing innovative, coordinated, green and open development for all, and the guidance of national strategy and the "Internet Plus" action plan, which focus on the buliding of cyberspace, a digital China and intelligent society, China will actively promote digital industrialization and industrial digitization, promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy, and add new momentum to economic development and new business type for industrial development and promote high-quality development. Data show that in 2019, the added value of China's digital economy reached 35.8 trillion yuan, accounting for 36.2% of GDP, becoming an important part of China's modern economic system. In 2020, the digital economy maintained high growth and became the key driving force for stable economic growth. Looking to the future, with the opening of the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way in the new era, the development of China's digital economy has a bright future.

100 Years of Great Endeavors and Contributions of the Communist Party of China

Li Changjiu

The founding of the Communist Party of China on July 1, 1921 was an epoch-making event. Over the past 100 years, the Communist Party of China has united and led the people of the whole country to topple the three mountains of imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat-capitalism and establish the People’s Republic of China; has achieved the transformation from being poor and backward and growing prosperous to becoming strong; had realized the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and have brought about a historic resolution to the problem of absolute poverty in China. Under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups are now marching in confident strides toward the second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. At the same time, China will make greater contributions to a better future for mankind!

On China’s Party Diplomacy towards the Arab Countries

Sun Degang, Wu Tongyu

The all-round cooperation between China and Arab countries relies on various means such as government diplomacy, party diplomacy, public diplomacy and non-governmental diplomacy. China’s party diplomacy towards the Arab countries is characterized by mechanism coordination, with the International Department of the CPC Central Committee as the main body, and the political parties, organizations, leaders, media and think tanks in Arab countries as the objects. China’s party diplomacy includes the holding of dialogues between Chinese and Arab political parties, signing memoranda of cooperation between political parties, holding workshops, and promoting mutual visits between party leaders and youth. China’s party diplomacy towards the Arab countries is an integral part of the great power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics. It promotes the exchange of political mutual trust and governance experiences, and the “Belt and Road Initiative” and people-to-people exchanges. It has safeguarded China’s sovereignty, security and development interests, promoted the cause of Arab peace and development, and fostered South-south cooperation.

A Preliminary Study of the Major Impetus and Ways for China-Japan Cooperation in the Health Industry with Ongoing Risks from COVID-19

Ge Jianhua

The health industry is one of the strong drivers of Japan's national economy. The development of health industry is not only a key link in the strategic layout of Japan's economic development, but also an important field and an important force for Japan promoting rapid economic recovery and foreign cooperation in the post-epidemic era. Japanese health industry usually refers to a larger health industry, which covers all the health industry other than public insurance. In other words, it involves prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and other goods-producing and service-producing sector, and includes pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceutical commerce, medical services, health products, health care services and other fields. The sudden COVID-19 epidemic has brought challenges as well as new opportunities to China-Japan health industry cooperation. The COVID-19 epidemic may be a turning point in world history. Although the spread of the epidemic is an accident, it has led to a major change in the trajectory of world affairs. Under the background of great changes unseen in a century, there is space, motivation and potential for China and Japan to deepen cooperation in the health industry in the post-epidemic era.

In order to promote the recovery and development of the global economy in the post-epidemic era, China has actively explored and strengthened economic cooperation with Japan. Japan's mature health industry policy, operation system and service guarantee system and other practices can provide inspirations for China. The outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has prompted people in both countries to pay more attention to health, and the demand for related health products and services will also expand. The complementarity of health services between China and Japan will become an important basis for deepening industrial cooperation between the two countries. Under the guidance of health industry cooperation and through top-level design, China and Japan will inject new momentum into the economic development of the two countries and achieve multi-regional common development on the basis of promoting cooperation between local provinces and cities.

Several Dimensions of Preventing and Defusing Global Financial Risks——through China’s Holistic View of National Security in China's New Development Paradigm of "Dual Circulation"

Zhang Yi

Financial security is an important part of national security, and preventing systemic financial risk is the eternal theme of financial work. In July 14, 2017, general secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the national financial work conference that we should take the initiative to guard against and defuse systemic financial risks in a more important position, scientifically prevent, identify early, early warning, early detection and early disposal, and strive to prevent and resolve risks in key areas, and strive to improve the financial security line and risk emergency response mechanism. Financial leverage, financial stability and economic growth form a balanced triangle relationship. The excessive fluctuation of financial leverage not only reduces economic growth, but also has adverse effects on the stability of financial system. With the proposal of China in the 14th five year plan, we should accelerate the construction of a new development pattern with domestic and international double cycles as the main body and domestic and international double cycles promoting each other, and prevent the infiltration of international financial risks under the background of globalization. China needs to start from multiple dimensions and use "hard strength" and "clever strength" to hedge the multiple threats to resolve the hegemony of the US dollar.

The Two New Normal, a Rapidly-Changing World and the COVID-19 Pandemic, are Accelerating Changes Unseen in a Century

Sun Haichao

In recent years, the chaos in the world has been growing and the COVID-19 pandemic has kept resurging. This two New Normal phenomena are accelerating the evolution and development of changes unseen in a century.

I. The chaos in the world continues to rise and the international situation is turbulent and votile.

In recent years, scholars have invariably used the word "chaos" to summarize the international situation. The basic view people usually come to share is that chaos makes people feel suddenly at a loss. With chaos as the core feautre, “uncertainty and uncertain factors continue to increase" is the basic feature. "Where the world is going?" becomes the biggest question. The sudden COVID-19 pandemic has delivered the most severe blow to the gloabl economy since World War II, and has taken a toll on the process of economic globalization and the global industrial chain. It also has a fundamental impact on the employment situation worldwide, and is fueling the most chaotic international situation after World War II. People quickly changed from "not knowing what to do" to the current "astonished" state about the chaos of the world.

II. the COVID-19 pandemic are accelerating the change of international relations with a far-reaching impact on the world.

The outbreak of the COVID-19 is a long-term trend in all countries of the world, and has not yet fully manifested its impact on the comparison of international forces and world economic development. It has posed severe challenges to national governance capacity and effective management of international institutions.

China are Gaining Global Acclaim for Honoring its Responsibilities as a Major Country

Yu Sui

On September 21, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly via video link in Beijing and delivered an important speech titled "Bolstering Confidence and Jointly Overcoming Difficulties to Build a Better World". This speech is theoretical, visionary and practical in nature, not only showing the responsibility of great powers, but also carrying alarming resonance and gainning wide acclaim from all over the world.

I. The Theoretical Aspect.

The innovative proposals and propositions in President Xi Jinping's speech were made on its lastest assessment of the world situation. He made the following theoretical judgment: First, over the past year, the world is facing the combined impacts of changes unseen in a century and the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, COVID-19 is still raging in the world, and profound changes are taking place in human society. The world has entered a period of new turbulence and transformation. Third, The history of world civilization is also one of fighting pandemics. Rising to challenges, humanity has always emerged in triumph and achieved greater development and advancement. The current pandemic may appear overwhelming, but we humanity will surely overcome it and prevail.

II. The Visionary Aspect.

The Global Development Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping for the first time in this speech is inspiring, innovative and visionary. The bigest highlight is, as President Xi Jinping said in his speech, "to safeguard and improve people’s livelihoods and protect and promote human rights through development, and make sure that development is for the people and by the people, and that its fruits are shared among the people; to care about the special needs of developing countries; to employ such means as debt suspension and development aid to help developing countries, particularly vulnerable ones facing exceptional difficulties, with emphasis on addressing unbalanced and inadequate development among and within countries." All these are setting a good example to the whole world.

III. The Practical Aspect.

President Xi Jinping solemnly declared “China will strive to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality before 2060. This requires tremendous hard work, and we will make every effort to meet these goals. China will step up support for other developing countries in developing green and low-carbon energy, and will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.” President Xi Jinping's speech comes after China's overseas investment in coal and power has continued to decline over the past few years, while investment in renewable energy has been increasing. It should be admitted that the price paid by China for this is enormous. The move means that more than $50 billion of investment in the industry has evaporated, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 200m tonnes a year, according to estimates by a US think-tank. The cost is high, and the benefits are equally attractive.

Australia's Domestic Political Economic Situation and Policies Change in COVID-19 Crisis

Duan Haowen

Although the Australian government has taken some positive actions in the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, the arrival and spread of the epidemic still has a profound political and economic impact in Australia, and has caused many changes in Australia's internal affairs and policy-deciding processes in a lot of aspects. In terms of public policies in response to the epidemic, though early measures such as maintaining social distance, promoting citizen hygiene awareness and higher nucleic acid testing rates have achieved good results, they have also exposed many inherent problems in Australian economic policies. At the same time, the relevant measures in response to the epidemic have exposed Australia’s long-standing social inequality in many aspects. From the poor to the homeless to the minorities, they have encountered, more or less, systemic discrimination and unfair treatment in mainstream Australian society last year. Parts of the situation is not unrelated to the inherent problems in the Australian political system, and the large-scale outbreak of the epidemic has caused major changes in these situations. Among them, the deterioration of China-Australia relations in the past few years has interacted with the epidemic issue, which has made Australia's relations with China expected to show a further negative trend, and might leads to a broader anti-China ideological influence in Australia's domestic society.

New Changes in Taiwan’s Social Mentality and Ideological Trends During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Wang Jianmin

COVID-19 broke out at the beginning of 2020 and the following global lockdown has lasted for nearly two years, which becomes one of the major events that unseen in a century. In face of this severe global epidemic disaster, instead of working together to prevent and fight the epidemic, international community, on the contrary, showed more acute and complex contradictions and struggles than ever, especially the major adjustment of the US strategy toward China, and some new social thoughts and phenomena have emerged, which have a great impact on the pattern of international relations, the concept of global economic development and the reconstruction of the global supply chain. At the same time, the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 epidemic, is not ushering in new opportunity for cross-strait to mitigate their relations. On the countary, under the anti-China tide of the United States, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority has carried out pan-politicized operations, politicizing and instrumentalizing the epidemic control and the fight against COVID-19. Meanwhile, a new trend of social thought and social sentiment on the island, the "parochialism", "selfishness" and "egoism" have sprung up. "Taiwan independence populism" has become more rampant, "anti-China hatred" sentiment is running high, and cross-strait relations have further deteriorated.