2024 Global Digital Economy Conference

The Global Digital Economy Conference has been successfully held three times since 2021. In the past three years, the number of overseas guests and specifications to participate in the conference have continued to increase, and overseas sub-venues from Singapore to the United Arab Emirates have continuously improved their international influence. It is reported that the 2024 Global Digital Economy Conference is approved by The State Council and hosted by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government and the State Internet Information Office. With the theme of “Opening a new era of digital intelligence, Sharing a new digital future”, the conference set up a “1+6+3+N” activity framework, including an opening ceremony and the main forum, six high-level forums, three major brand features, as well as a number of special forums and a series of activities.

Pan Feng, member of the Party Group and deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, introduced the background significance, main sectors, highlights and other relevant information of the 2024 Global Digital Economy Conference at the press conference. The digital economy represents the future industrial development direction of the world, and the state and Beijing City attach great importance to the prosperous and healthy development of the digital economy, including it in strategic arrangements, and actively promote the deep integration of digital technology and the real economy. Guided by scientific and technological innovation, Beijing has coordinated development and security, accelerated the development of the digital economy through the implementation of effective policies and measures, and strives to build a global benchmark city for the digital economy. In 2023, the added value of the digital economy in Beijing will reach 1.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.5 percent year-on-year, injecting strong impetus into the high-quality development of the capital’s economy.

The main venue of the 2024 Global Digital Economy Conference will be held at the National Convention Center from July 2 to 5.

First, build a solid international cooperation platform, continue to expand the “circle of friends” of global digital economy partner cities, start to build a cooperation network of domestic and foreign associations, and promote the establishment of long-term cooperation mechanisms. On the basis of last year, more new partner cities will join the Global Digital Economy Partnership City Cooperation Initiative this year, and the “circle of friends” of global digital economy partner cities will continue to expand, and the function of city-level platforms will become increasingly prominent. The conference began to build a cooperation network of domestic and foreign associations, actively promote a long-term cooperation mechanism, and has held sub-venue activities in the Middle East in advance to jointly create a “Beijing digital economy enterprise innovation service base” at home and abroad.
Second, build a platform for coordinated development and explore ways to deepen digital cooperation in Beijing-Tibet, Beijing-Mongolia, Beijing-Xinjiang, and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regions. The conference set up a new special forum on “Digital Economy Face to Face between the East and the West” to discuss deepening digital cooperation between Beijing and Tibet, Beijing and Mongolia, and Beijing and Xinjiang, bridging the digital divide between the East and the west, boosting digital tourism consumption, and jointly promoting the high-quality development of digital economy between the East and the west. The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Think Tank Forum gathers the wisdom of the three places, seeks the bureau of the three places, and offers suggestions for the coordinated development of the digital economy in the three places. Since its first session, the Lhasa branch has become an important means for Beijing and Tibet to promote the development of Lhasa’s digital economy.
The third is to build a solid technological innovation platform, the conference set up the first new technology, new product release area, many cutting-edge technologies and products will be launched at the conference site, showing the latest achievements in digital technology innovation and development. The conference will set up the first new technology, new product launch area, many cutting-edge technologies and products will be launched at the conference site, showing the latest achievements of digital technology innovation and development. Six high-level forums and more than 40 special forums covered many hot topics such as Internet 3.0, data elements, digital governance, and intelligent computing power, and released a series of digital economy innovation results. “2024 Digital Night” uses artificial intelligence technology to plan a number of unique products combining data and intelligence, and brings you a audio-visual feast of technology + art.
The fourth is to build a solid industrial development platform, build an enterprise exchange platform, and strive to achieve the integration of digital and real development. Since the first, the conference has always been committed to building a platform for enterprise communication. The participating enterprises in this conference reached a new high, and digital economy enterprises and traditional enterprises gathered together to expand the chain and network, and strive to achieve the integration of digital and real development. The conference will continue to release the White Paper on the Global Digital Economy to create a global vane for policy formulation, technological frontier, industrial dynamics, and application paradigms in the digital field.
Fifth, build a solid interactive experience platform, this conference has enriched the scene of audience participation and experience, and expanded the scale of experience. Digital Economy Experience Week launched the meta-Universe innovative product experience season for the first time, and released the “Leyou Digital Beijing” series of characteristic experience routes. In the main venue of the conference, there is also a digital economy immersive interactive experience area, including many AI application scenarios, meta-universe, digital people and other experience activities, to better meet the diversified and high-quality consumer demand of the people, stimulate consumption vitality, release consumption potential, and promote consumption upgrading.
The conference will feature six high-level forums with themes of digital security, Internet 3.0, digital transformation, data elements, global governance and digital bridge across the Himalayas, according to Zhao Jun湦, deputy secretary-general of the China Communications Enterprises Association.
The topics of the thematic forum are widely distributed, covering major topics in the field of digital economy, New “East and West Digital Economy Face-to-face Forum” to connect the eastern and western digital economy, “Eurasian Digital Economy Cooperation Forum” to promote the Eurasian digital economy cooperation, “Digital Ecology Development Forum” to promote domestic and foreign exchanges, “Digital Economy” She Power “Forum to give play to women’s power, and” Wireless Technology and Application Forum “to promote the innovation and development of wireless technology. And other special forums.