Qiping: China's development of "big data" has strategic urgency

Large data is an advanced information productivity. In different times, people's function is different from object, and the social purpose of production is different, which forms agricultural production mode, industrial production mode and information production method. Large data drives the formation of information production mode and promotes the transformation of the mode of development to achieve economic and social transformation. The development of large data is of strategic significance for China to promote the construction of "new four" and to improve the national competitiveness.

The urgent strategic of "digital dividend"

We need to fully understand the strategic value of large data to enhance the national competitiveness from the height of the change of production mode caused by social productivity. The accumulation of the kind, the accumulation of money, has become the symbol of the national strength of the past times. In the information age, the capacity of data accumulation, processing and utilization will become a new symbol of national strength.

The U.S. government March 29, 2012 released the "Big Data research and development plan." This is not only a strategic plan that pushes the United States to continue to be a leader in High-tech, it is also a plan to promote American social and economic development. The developed countries, represented by the United States, are moving towards a higher level of comprehensive national strength through large data, driven by the top level of the country.

For China, which is between the second wave and the third wave, big data development has a strategic urgency.

From the international perspective, the developed countries have entered the information age, the development of large data means the social productivity level of the quality of ascension. According to the modernization standard of the information age, there is a real danger that China's social productivity has been drawn away from the developed countries such as the United States and plunged into the data gap.

From the domestic perspective, China is in the transition from "accelerating industrialization" to "the basic realization of industrialization", at the same time, to complete the historical task of improving the level of informatization comprehensively. Unlike developed countries, China faces the dual task of developing productivity in the industrial age and productivity in the information age.

China's peaceful development can not be built on the low level of social productivity system, to recognize the urgent situation of the development of information productivity represented by large data, to establish a national strategy of large data from the top level, to adapt our social productivity to the new level of modernization required by international competition, On this basis, the social relations of production and its associated economic operation mechanism are reformed. It is necessary to ensure the international competitiveness of China by insisting on informatization and industrialization, promoting informatization and realizing high level modernization.

Big Data brings new opportunities to China's development. To grasp the key to the transformation of the mode of production can solve the deep-seated contradictions of the change of development mode. Facing the future, big data will inspire huge domestic demand increment, build intelligent city and countryside, close government and people's relations, promote democracy and social progress. Large data industry will form a new growth point, the main data business to bring transformation and upgrading of all walks of life. We believe that by the Dongfeng of large data, the transformation of development mode and economic operation mechanism with information productivity and advanced mode of production can bring "digital dividend" to China and improve the modernization level of "new four" construction.

Stimulate market demand in all directions

Seizing new opportunities represented by large data will bring new opportunities to China's development. With advanced productive forces and advanced production mode to promote the development mode and operating mechanism of the transformation, in the overall improvement of the information level process, the Chinese characteristics of the "new Four" road.

Big data will spark a huge increase in domestic demand. E-commerce, the way to use the Internet to aggregate consumption, guide and stimulate consumption, and thus stimulate a huge increase in domestic demand, will lead to huge changes in the industry. 2012 Alibaba E-commerce turnover is expected to reach 1.25 trillion yuan a year, of which 1/3 is the new start of domestic demand. The figure is expected to reach $7 trillion by 2018. This shows that e-commerce in the start of domestic demand potential.

Big data helps build smarter cities. Large data will make town construction embark on a new development path of allocating resources by means of data flow. The urban construction will focus from the one-sided emphasis to the big city, and turn to the urban and rural integration direction development.

Big data is good for improving the way the government manages. Official blog and the people set up 7 days by 24 hours of close contact, more favorable than the periodic election to respond to public opinion, for the private practical, out of the Chinese characteristics of the socialist Democratic Road.

Large data through the Internet of Things, smart maps, intelligent transportation, intelligent logistics, intelligent community, intelligent health care, intelligent education and other new ways, so that resources can be distributed in rural areas under the conditions of efficient configuration, such as Silicon Valley, Bangalore to achieve a higher level of modernization.

Large data will drive broadband infrastructure and drive the development of large data industries. First, the data technology industry, including the hardware of intelligent pipeline, Internet of things, servers, storage, transmission, intelligent mobile devices, software aspects of language, data platform, tools, structure and unstructured database, application software, etc., services, such as cloud computing, the second is the data acquisition industry, including positioning, payment, mail and other industries Third, data processing industry, including data mining, data analysis, data consulting and other industries, data application industry. According to a recent report by the storage industry community Wikibon, the big data market is on the eve of a blowout, with the world's big data market worth $50 billion trillion over the next 5 years.

In the future, large data applications focusing on government, telecommunications, education, medical, finance, petroleum, petrochemical and electric power will directly stimulate the application scale of the whole society. Large data will bring an unexpected transformative impact, will make the data business is the main business of all walks of life, around the big data, the enterprise will be analysis that services upgrade transformation, and thus change the industry of all walks of life. A broad analysis is a service, includes all high value-added creative services based on large data, such as manufacturing-oriented customer service, lifestyle designer services based on the consulting data platform, Business analytics based on statistical data mining, creative services based on design platforms, and design services based on large data, management services, Education services, translation services, and services based on industry or value module segmentation, etc.

Seizing the opportunity of large data, China will improve the international competitiveness of the information age on the high ground of modernization, not only on the accumulation of gross domestic product.

(the author is Secretary-General of Information Research Center of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)