Cao Shumin, Deputy Director of the Central Cyberspace Administration and Deputy Director of the National Cyberspace Administration, released the "Digital China Development Report (2022)" at the opening ceremony of the 6th Digital China Construction Summit on the 27th. The report points out that in 2022, the scale of China's digital economy reached 50.2 trillion yuan, ranking second in the world in total and accounting for 41.5% of GDP. The digital economy has become an important engine for stable growth and transformation. The report shows that the scale and level of China's digital infrastructure have significantly improved. As of the end of 2022, 2.312 million 5G base stations have been opened, with 561 million 5G users, accounting for over 60% of the global total; The number of mobile IoT terminal users reached 1.845 billion, making it the first country among major economies in the world to achieve the "Internet of Things Superman". According to the report, China has accelerated the construction of its data resource system, with a data output of 8.1ZB in 2022, a year-on-year increase of 22.7%, and a global share of 10.5%, ranking second in the world. At the same time, digital culture provides new momentum for cultural prosperity and development. The Digital transformation of cultural venues was accelerated, and the digital service capacity of reading and art popularization for the whole people was significantly improved. The number of digital reading users in China reached 530 million. The vitality of online cultural creation has been further stimulated, with over 30 million works by key online literary enterprises nationwide. Cao Shumin said that in 2023, accelerating the construction of digital China will consolidate the foundation of digital China construction, open the artery of digital infrastructure, and smooth the systemic circulation of data resources; Fully empowering economic and social development, strengthening, optimizing, and expanding the digital economy, developing efficient and collaborative digital governance, creating a confident and prosperous digital culture, building an inclusive and convenient digital society, and building a green and intelligent digital ecological civilization; Strengthen the key capabilities of digital China, build a self reliant digital technology innovation system, and build a credible and controllable digital security barrier; Optimize the digital development environment, build a fair and standardized digital governance ecosystem, and build an open and win-win international cooperation pattern in the digital field. (New News Agency)