On April 9, Zhang Lianqi, member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and vice president of the China Taxation Society, said that from the perspective of demand, information consumption, cultural consumption and other emerging fields will form a thrust, and the digital economy will promote the improvement of national digital governance capabilities and services. For the double upgrade of industry and consumption.
Zhang Lianqi specifically pointed out that in terms of industry, we should pay attention to social governance capabilities, that is, social digital governance capabilities. During the fight against the epidemic, it was revealed that China still has shortcomings and weaknesses in urban public health and digital governance of the national reserve system.
Zhang Lianqi made the above statement at an online seminar organized by the Digital Economic Committee of the Globalization Think Tank (CCG). Zhang Lianqi is also a senior researcher invited by CCG.
In February of this year, the Central Government ’s overall planning to promote the prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic and economic and social development conference mentioned that some traditional industries have been hit hard, while smart manufacturing, Emerging industries such as unmanned distribution, online consumption, and healthcare have shown strong growth potential. It is necessary to make good use of central budget investment, special bond funds, and policy finance to optimize the investment structure.
On March 4, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee clearly pointed out that it is necessary to speed up the construction of new infrastructure such as 5G networks and data centers.
Zhang Lianqi said that in the current stage of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, the “new infrastructure” with digital economic development at its core will enable China ’s information consumption, cultural consumption, Emerging fields such as health consumption and old-age consumption have formed pushing forces, driving the transformation and upgrading of digital economy-related industries.
“In this epidemic, we have seen many new needs, including the transformation and upgrading of related industries, networking, intelligence, and digital governance at the national governance level. Zhang Lianqi also specifically mentioned that in the epidemic prevention and control work, the role of digital governance sinking is particularly obvious.
The Central Economic Work Conference, which closed on December 12 last year, determined that one of the key points of economic work next year is that fiscal and monetary policies should be the same as consumption, investment, employment, and industry , Regional and other policies form a joint force to promote the double upgrade of industry and consumption.
This “double upgrade” strategy has new significance in the context of the impact of the epidemic on our economy.
Zhang Lianqi believes that it was issued against the background of the epidemicThe emerging consumer demand, such as mutual recognition of health codes, online shopping, cloud classrooms, telemedicine and disease screening, and online office, will require the support of professional digital infrastructure to drive the construction of industrial parks and urban public infrastructure. development of. This process is different from the development path of traditional infrastructure. It is necessary to emphasize the strength of private capital and enterprises and fill in the shortcomings.
In addition, the development of “new infrastructure” will bring new mechanisms, combined with a new round of technological transformation, especially through industry digitalization to obtain income compensation and form Virtuous circle. It is very important for the improvement of traditional manufacturing industry. It must be deeply integrated with intelligent high-end equipment manufacturing and modern service industry, and then reflect the obvious characteristics of digital industry.
Zhang Lianqi said that in recent years, the growth rate of China ’s infrastructure investment has slowed down. In the country ’s fixed asset investment, infrastructure construction (excluding electricity) accounts for about 24%. The current share of new infrastructure is even lower.
Therefore, the current government investment in new infrastructure is far from enough. On the basis of the cost-benefit analysis, it must be emphasized that new infrastructure investment should be properly advanced.
In terms of macro finances, Zhang Lianqi believes that in order to promote the development of new infrastructure, the deficit should be appropriately increased and special national debt should be increased. “This year ’s fiscal deficit rate will definitely be 3% Above, the scope of special debt should also be expanded. ”
In addition, it is necessary to accurately and effectively promote the construction of new infrastructure and pay attention to the new consumption needs of enterprises and individuals. Only in this way can not only increase supply, but also create consumption from the demand side and pull Double upgrade of industry and consumption.