On December 7, the China Regional Center of the United Nations Big Data Global Platform was established in Hangzhou. This is one of the five regional centers of the United Nations big data platform in the world and the only regional center settled in China. At the same time as this regional center, the National Bureau of Statistics Big Data Application Center and the Zhejiang Provincial Statistical Big Data Application Center were also established. The establishment of the three centers reflects that China is shouldering the responsibility of a big country through the construction of big data, and also encourages Zhejiang to better play its advantages to build an “important window”, promote the modernization of governance capacity faster, and contribute to China’s participation in international cooperation.
In the face of the serious challenges posed by the epidemic, sustainable development remains the “golden key”, clearing the fog of the world and illuminating the future of mankind. Implement the national big data strategy, accelerate the construction of digital China, use big data as a sharp tool, strive to build a platform to promote cooperation, contribute “big data power” to the realization of poverty eradication, hunger eradication and other important issues, help many developing countries that lack the ability to develop big data participate in global data innovation, bridge the digital divide, and China is shouldering the responsibility of “helping the world at the same time”, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
The United Nations has chosen China, and China has chosen Hangzhou, which is not difficult to read. This is a high recognition of the development of digital technology, digital economy and digital governance in Zhejiang. During the epidemic prevention and control period, the “health code” born in Zhejiang became a typical representative of China’s scientific epidemic prevention using big data. Zhejiang, which is building the “No.1 project” of the digital economy, and Hangzhou, which is building the “No.1 city of the digital economy”, have sufficient conditions and capabilities to take the construction of the three centers as an opportunity to give better play to the pioneering and leading advantages of local governments and enterprises in the field of big data, focus on new technologies, new industries and new formats, and promote the modernization of government statistical production processes, We will promote statistics to adapt faster to today’s global scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, and better serve economic and social development.
Big data is promising. The Chinese government has clearly listed data as production factors alongside labor, capital and technology. In the new stage of information development, big data is gathering everything and building the future. To build a globally recognized government statistical knowledge, technology and innovation center, and contribute to government statistics and monitoring of sustainable development goals in terms of measurement, monitoring and management, which reposes the deep expectation of global governance to use scientific and technological innovation to supplement the shortcomings of traditional data collection and processing and promote sustainable development. The big data application centers at the national and provincial levels will also promote the big data in the statistical work and provide important tools for the domestic economic and social development.
For Zhejiang, being able to participate in the cooperation with the United Nations on behalf of China is of course a great honor, but also a rare opportunity. It is an international guide for Zhejiang to move towards a higher level of digital governance. In recent years, Zhejiang has led the reform in key areas with “at most once” reform and government digital transformation, and achieved remarkable results. However, the innovation prospects of digital technology and artificial intelligence for human life and production are far from fully revealed. Similarly, what we can see and realize now may be just the tip of the iceberg about the chemical reactions that digital technology and big data can bring to government operation and public services. As for Zhejiang, the pioneer of digital governance, we must also press ourselves through the concept and method of adhering to the system concept and comprehensive innovative thinking, strengthen the iterative upgrading of digital governance, and continue to move forward towards the overall pattern of intelligent governance. In this process, we should make good use of big data.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)