On September 28, Zhang Jie, part-time professor at the Institute of Capital Finance of China University of Political Science and Law and a famous financial expert, said on his personal social media: The digital economy has prompted pattern changes in China's regional competition.

Digital economy What benefits does it bring to regional economic development?

On September 28, Part-time professor and famous financial expert Zhang Jie said on personal social media: The digital economy has prompted pattern changes in China's regional competition.

Professor Zhang Jie believes that in the era of booming digital economy, Internet companies and the real economy can no longer completely abandon each other; under the opportunity of digital transformation to , the central and western regions will become a new engine of economic development.

Over the past year, the development of digital economy in various places has made great progress. Recently, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology released the "China Digital Economy Development Report (2022)". The report shows that in 2021, China's digital economy reached 45.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 39.8% of GDP. The digital economy scale in 16 provinces, cities and districts including Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong exceeded 1 trillion yuan, and the year-on-year growth rate of the digital economy in Guizhou and Chongqing exceeded 20%.

828 Official data of the B2B Enterprise Festival also shows that digital demand in western provinces such as Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, and Sichuan has the strongest increase, and the total digital demand in Sichuan and Guizhou ranks among the top among provinces in the country.

Why are small and medium-sized enterprises in these western provinces so enthusiastic about digital transformation? This issue starts with the in-depth digital economy in China.

In order to see the good scenery on the cloud, policy support is emerging one after another

According to data statistics, my country's cloud computing market continues to grow rapidly. In 2021, China's cloud computing is generally in a stage of rapid development, with a market size of 322.9 billion yuan, an increase of 113.8 billion yuan from 2020, a year-on-year increase of 54.42%. According to the forecasts of relevant institutions, the compound growth rate of my country's cloud industry scale from 2021 to 2026 is as high as 25%.

digital empowerment is becoming more and more effective at the real economy level, which has accelerated the implementation of the cloud industry. As the core basic technology of IT industry transformation, in order to grasp the technological industry transformation brought by cloud computing, my country has issued a number of supporting industrial policies, including top-level cloud computing industry planning and design such as " The 14th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Long-Term Goals for 2035", "Notice on Accelerating the Digital Transformation of State-owned Enterprises", " Three-Year Action Plan for Cloud Computing Development (2017-2019)".

is not only at the national level, facing the industrial opportunities brought by cloud computing, but all localities are also striving to launch their own supporting policies: Beijing’s latest “Action Plan for Open Development of the Digital Economy Full Industrial Chain” will use cloud computing as the core technology foundation to open up all links of the digital industry and achieve rapid, stable and high-quality economic growth; Guangzhou clearly put forward indicators on the scale of data center construction in the “14th Five-Year Plan for Industrial and Information Development of Guangzhou”, and creates “Tianhe No. 2” and other marking data centers; and in Jiangsu, the “Jiangsu Province’s “14th Five-Year Plan for Digital Economy Development” has established an economic development indicator of “the added value of the digital economy industry accounts for more than 10% of the total regional value”.

It can be said that the cloud industry has become a strong growth pole for economic development, and the consensus and clear goals of local governments have been made.

regional advantages cooperate with the cloud industry, and various regions accelerate the transformation of digital economy

In the past, "cloud access" seemed to be a proper term for Internet technology, but with the continuous expansion and maturity of big data and artificial intelligence technologies, the possibility of various regions relying on their own regional advantages to create a characteristic cloud industry is becoming a reality.

In Inner Mongolia and Guizhou, relying on the local low-priced electricity and disaster prevention advantages, the local government has successively introduced data center park projects that are positioned as the basis for national data storage backup and offline analysis; in Gansu and Ningxia, relying on the "East Data and West Calculation" project and its own location advantages in the "Belt and Road", it will successively build a national data center cluster, focusing on artificial intelligence , VR, and Internet of Vehicles and other data businesses; in Heilongjiang, with the climate advantage of temperature control in computer rooms and the construction cost advantages, Harbin will be focused on building an important base for the national big data center, and will introduce projects such as China Mobile Cloud Data Center, China Unicom Cloud Data Center, Inspur Big Data Northeast Asia Base.

It is precisely because various places realize that they have unique advantages in the process of developing the cloud industry that the road to digital empowering regional development can become wider and wider.

Small and medium-sized enterprises have become an important driving force for economic growth. Enterprise Cloud is just the time when

Similarly, in addition to local governments, there are also a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in the region.

Small and medium-sized enterprises have always occupied an important position in my country's economic development. A set of data shows that small and medium-sized enterprises contribute more than 50% of tax revenue, more than 60% of the country's GDP, and about 70% of the country's patent invention rights and technological innovations, providing more than 80% of urban labor and employment, and the number of small and medium-sized enterprises accounts for 99.7% of the total number of enterprises in the country. This series of numbers can be vividly summarized as "five, six, seven, eight, nine".

So do small and medium-sized enterprises with significant positions in each regional economy need to join the cloud trend? The answer is yes. In the era of booming digital economy, science and technology and entities can no longer completely put aside each other. It can be said that digital transformation has become the only way for enterprise development.

Just over the past month, more and more small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of industrial Internet and intelligent manufacturing are taking advantage of the opportunity to go to the cloud to increase their investment in digitalization in all aspects. During the 828 B2B Enterprise Festival, the demand for industrial Internet products by enterprises increased by 34 times year-on-year, and the demand for intelligent manufacturing products increased by 3.26 times year-on-year. The increase in the intelligent demand of manufacturing is increasing significantly.

First of all, small and medium-sized enterprises are scattered among all industries, the general trend of digital upgrading penetrates into small and medium-sized enterprises, and the goal of digital empowering all industries can be truly realized.

Secondly, small and medium-sized enterprises have the need for digital transformation in the current economic development environment. In terms of enterprise survival, lower risk resistance, higher information acquisition costs, and narrower transaction channels are all pain points that have long plagued small and medium-sized enterprises.

Finally, small and medium-sized enterprises are naturally sensitive to the cost of introducing external technology management. In the process of digital empowerment, once small and medium-sized enterprises feel the value-for-money services and the business expansion is more smooth, they will naturally have enough interest in going to the cloud, otherwise companies that "spend money in vain" will naturally have no motivation to renew.

For these aspects, a value-for-money enterprise cloud product is eagerly anticipated by small and medium-sized enterprises across the country. The launch of such cloud service products will surely bring a new development pattern to local small and medium-sized enterprises. From this perspective, the growth of regional economy and the arrival of corporate cloud are indeed a romance of two-way rushing.