Digital economy boosts high-quality growth in Fuzhou

Digital economy in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province has grown rapidly in the past year, accounting for more than 40 percent of the city's total GDP, and it has become a major driving force behind Fuzhou's economic and social development, according to statistics released by the local government.

In recent years, Fuzhou has been stepping up efforts to develop digital infrastructure.

The city built the Southeast Big Data Industrial Park of China, which has the largest data storage capacity in Fujian. The park is now home to 447 data enterprises with total registered capital exceeding 38 billion yuan ($5.67 billion).

A cloud platform for government services was also launched in Fujian, which gathers various kinds of data from the city's government departments including the public security, civil affairs and health department, encouraging openness and data sharing, in order to build a digital government and digital society.

Driven by its robust digital economy, Fuzhou has also actively promoted the development of industrial digitization and digital industrialization, and accelerated the integrated development of digital economy and real economy. Statistics show that the economic value of Fuzhou's digital economy hit 390 billion yuan in 2019.

The digital industrialization also gave a boost to the city's traditional industries, such as textile manufacturing and tea production.

"Fuzhou will foster new driving forces for industrial development with the construction of a 'digital Fuzhou', and the economic value of the city's digital economy is expected to exceed 450 billion yuan this year," according to Zhang Qingya, head Fuzhou's big data development and management committee.

Zhang added that Fuzhou will promote the construction of new types of infrastructure and accelerate the deep integration of the real economy and new technologies such as big data, 5G and artificial intelligence.