On May 18, the reporter learned from Shantou that the 2022 China digital economy innovation and development conference will be held in Shantou from June 27 to 29. The conference was jointly hosted by the Ministry of industry and information technology and the people's Government of Guangdong Province, and jointly undertaken by Shantou Municipal People's government, Guangdong Provincial Department of industry and information technology, Guangdong Provincial Communications Administration, China industry and information publishing and media group, China information and Communication Research Institute, the fifth Electronic Research Institute of the Ministry of industry and information technology and China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute. The conference will comprehensively show the current situation and achievements of China's digital economy development, base on Shantou, focus on Guangdong, face the whole country and radiate Southeast Asia, give full play to the advantages of Guangdong Province, a major digital economy province, as well as Shantou's "hometown of overseas Chinese" and international communication infrastructure, and create an important window for China's international cooperation and innovative development of digital economy and a national platform for the opening of digital economy to serve overseas Chinese. The conference will adopt the innovative conference mode of "Online + offline" double line integration, with the theme of "gathering numbers and connecting overseas Chinese to create the future - building a leading area for international cooperation in digital economy". Guests from all walks of life, including government leaders, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, international guests, well-known entrepreneurs at home and abroad, experts and scholars, overseas Chinese leaders and overseas Chinese, will be invited to focus on accelerating the development of digital industrialization and industrial digitization, consolidating the foundation of digital economy, activating the value of data elements Promote the deep integration of digital economy and real economy and other current development hotspots in the field of digital economy. In the same period, more than ten theme forums will be held, including "digital governance high level forum" and "data value innovation forum", authoritative release of the latest research results reports in more than ten digital economy fields, such as China digital economy development index, and a series of activities such as digital economy industry project signing, Chaoshan night talk, characteristic exhibition and so on. According to the data of Shantou Bureau of industry and information technology, by the end of 2021, there were 38 enterprises above the designated size in Shantou's new generation electronic information industry, with an annual output value of 11.31 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.4%, and an industrial added value of 2.43 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.8%; The Internet and related services, software and information technology services were included in 31 key enterprises, with an operating revenue of 5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 21%; There are 58 digital creative enterprises above Designated Size in the city, with a revenue of 599 million yuan in 2021, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%. (Xinhua News Agency)