Visitors interact with an intelligent robot at Zhongguancun No. 1 Park in Beijing's Haidian district. (PHOTO: VCG)

By CHEN Chunyou

In recent years, Beijing has witnessed rapid development in its digital economy. To further stimulate the vitality of the digital economy, an action plan for the development of the whole industrial chain of this industry was rolled out by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology on May 30.

In the first quarter of 2022, the added value of Beijing's digital economy reached 387.36 billion RMB, up 7.2 percent year-on-year, accounting for 41.2 percent of the city's GDP, according to the data from the bureau.

The plan clarifies the measures to improve the supply capacity of digital technology, including focusing on breakthroughs in high-end chips, artificial intelligence, key software, blockchain, privacy computing and urban space operating systems, while encouraging open-source projects and institutions both at home and abroad to settle in Beijing. This will form a diversified digital technology innovation ecology, featuring public platforms, underlying technology and leading enterprises.

The data openness and sharing will be further strengthened, said the plan, noting that data-sharing space in such fields as autonomous driving, digital medical care and digital finance will be open to industry organizations or third-party institutions.

The targeted supporting measures for application scenarios in the industries, including sci-tech R&D and knowledge production, industrial Internet, digital medical treatment and intelligent cities are also covered in this plan. For example, it supports new R&D institutions in building common platforms, promotes the integrated development of blockchain and the industrial Internet, and encourages the sharing of business data among financial institutions through blockchains and privacy computing.