The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the afternoon of the 24th to introduce the situation of the Second Global Digital Trade Expo. Wang Shouwen, international trade negotiator and vice minister of the Ministry of Commerce, said at the meeting that data show that in the first eight months of this year, my country’s digitally deliverable service trade reached 1.81 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.4%.
At the meeting, a reporter asked that in recent years, the digital economy has become a global development hotspot. As an important part of the digital economy, digital trade has also become an important area of international economic and trade cooperation. Can you introduce the development of digital trade in my country?
In this regard, Wang Shouwen said that the digital economy is a hot spot in global economic development. The rapid development of the digital economy has promoted the development of digital trade. Digital trade can be simply divided into two parts. One is the trade method characterized by digital delivery, and the trade object is data. The second is a trade method characterized by digital ordering. Usually cross-border e-commerce trades goods, but it is realized through digital ordering. Therefore, digital trade is generally divided into the above two parts, either data is traded, or digital ordering is the core. Digital trade is becoming a new trend in the development of international trade today and a new growth point for the development of international trade in the future.
Wang Shouwen pointed out that my country’s digital trade development has achieved relatively good results, which is reflected in the following four aspects:
First, the overall scale continues to expand. In 2022, my country's digitally deliverable service trade scale will reach 2.51 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%, ranking fifth in the world. In the first eight months of this year, the scale of my country's digitally delivered services trade reached 1.81 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.4%. This is the first type of trade. The second is digitally ordered trade in goods. In 2022, cross-border e-commerce import and export volume will reach 2.11 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.8%, which is a record high. Cross-border e-commerce accounted for only 1% of my country's foreign trade in 2015, and reached 5% last year. The latest data from the customs shows that in the first half of this year, cross-border e-commerce import and export volume reached 1.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 16.6%. This growth rate is faster than last year, accounting for 5.5% of the proportion of imported and exported goods in the same period. Our cross-border e-commerce trading partners have covered the world, and we are one of the countries with the most complete cross-border e-commerce ecological chain in the world.
Second, the industrial foundation is continuously consolidated. In 2022, the scale of my country's digital economy will reach 50.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.3%, accounting for 41.5% of GDP. my country's data output reached 8.1ZB, a year-on-year increase of 22.7%, accounting for 10.5% of the world's total, ranking second in the world. As of June this year, the number of Internet users in my country reached 1.079 billion, and the Internet penetration rate reached 75.6%.
Third, digital technology is developing rapidly. my country's ability to support independent innovation in emerging technologies for digital trade continues to increase. According to the Global Innovation Index ranking released by the World Intellectual Property Organization, my country's overall innovation capabilities ranked 11th in the world last year. We rank first in the world in terms of the number of invention patents granted in the fields of artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and quantum information.
Fourth, application scenarios are becoming increasingly abundant. As my country's digital technology continues to integrate with the real economy, in the field of consumption, new consumption formats and application scenarios such as online games, online education, and telemedicine continue to emerge, stimulating the development potential of digital trade. Last year, the overseas sales revenue of my country's independently developed online games reached US$17.35 billion, 16,000 online literary works were exported, and the number of overseas readers exceeded 150 million. In the field of production, cloud exhibitions and remote working are widely used. New production models such as cloud outsourcing and platform subcontracting continue to develop, and the "cloud economy" ecology is gradually formed.
Wang Shouwen emphasized that, in general, digital trade is becoming an important force in my country's reorganization of factor resources, optimizing foreign trade structure, and comprehensively shaping new development advantages, and the prospects are very broad. Vigorously developing digital trade is of great significance to promoting the construction of a new higher-level open economic system and accelerating the construction of a strong trading country.
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