I. Development Strategy

Xicheng District will take data as the key factor to promote the in-depth integration of digital technology and the real economy; strengthen digital infrastructure and improve the governance system of the digital economy to collaboratively promote the digital industrialization and industry digitization; empower the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries and cultivate new industries, new forms of business, and new development patterns to accelerate the development of digital economy, so as to build a demonstration area of the global digital economy benchmark city in Xicheng District, Beijing Municipality, and showcase its new image.

II. Development Goals

1. Overall Goal

Building Xicheng District into a new force in developing the digital economy featuring "one urban area, two centers, and three highlands" by 2030:

Building a data native urban area with full perception and high security;

Building a global digital financial center for original innovation, and a digital cultural center that highlights the charm of Beijing as an ancient capital;

Building a gathering highland for digital transformation of central state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and emerging digital industries, a digital consumption highland with characteristics and vitality, and a digital governance highland featuring fine management and good governance.

2. Phased Objectives

By 2023

Building up a batch of data native infrastructures with strong exemplary and guiding effect;

Greatly improving the agglomeration of enterprises and the industrial cluster effect in the digital financial center;

Further improving public digital culture infrastructure, and cultivating a number of well-known digital cultural intellectual property (IPs);

Comprehensively promoting the digital transformation of central SOEs, and accelerating the convergence of emerging digital industries;

Effectively developing the digital infrastructure in key business districts, continuously enhancing brand coverage, and significantly improving the digital governance capacity of the core districts of Beijing;

Further consolidating the dominant position of Xicheng District in developing the digital economy.

By 2025

Promoting the overall improvement and upgrading of the digital infrastructure;

Highlighting the global leading position of the digital financial center;

Cultivating a number of globally well-known digital cultural IPs, and enhancing the influence of leading enterprises in digital media and other fields throughout the country;

Transforming the strengths of clustered central SOEs into advantages in digital industrial innovation, and fostering new edges through agglomeration of the digital industry;

Further optimizing the structure of consumption capacity level, and fostering quality upgrading of the regional digital consumption supporting facilities;

Making major progress in building a digital government and a digital society, with the added value of the digital economy accounting for more than 50 percent of the district's GDP;

Ranking among China's most advanced city urban areas.

By 2030

Making data the core factor to drive the development of Xicheng District;

Widely integrating digital infrastructure into the production and life of Xicheng District, and fully developing the data native urban area;

Building a data center gathering massive and high-frequency global financial data, and an innovation center of technologies and regulation to demonstrate the charm of the city's digital culture worldwide and promote the high aggregation of the digital culture industry;

Building an intensive digital innovation center for headquarters enterprises and significantly improving the core competitiveness of the digital industry;

Achieving comprehensive innovation-led development in the regional digital consumption level;

Ensuring efficient, inclusive, and equal access to digital public services;

Building Xicheng District into a demonstration area of the global digital economy benchmark city.

III. Making All-out Efforts to Advance Six Key Tasks

(I) Building a data native urban area with high security and full perception

Building an intelligent perception system;

Consolidating the infrastructure of cloud network computing capacity;

Further empowering green and low-carbon development;

Improving the security protection system.

(II) Creating original and innovative digital finance

Accelerating the high-quality development of the digital finance industry;

Strengthening the capacity of original innovation of digital finance;

Promoting the globally-leading application of digital finance scenarios;

Improving professional services in digital finance;

Serving the supervision and innovation of national digital finance;

Leverage the Beijing Stock Exchange to serve innovative development of small- and medium-sized enterprises.

(III) Carrying forward diverse and integrated digital culture

Vigorously developing the digital culture industry;

Supporting the digital transformation of the ancient capital's cultural industry ;

Promoting the digital renaissance of the ancient capital with special characteristics.

(IV) Fostering an innovation-led digital industry

Supporting central SOEs in developing bigger and stronger business in digital industries;

Creating new highlights in e-commerce development;

Accelerating the efficient convergence of the new-generation information technology industry;

Promoting the rapid development of green and low-carbon industries.

(V) Activating digital consumption with improved quality and upgraded structure

Incubating new forms of digital consumption;

Developing new experiences in digital consumption;

Creating a new environment for digital consumption.

(VI) Building a digital social ecosystem with fine management and good governance

Accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises;

Enhancing new capabilities of a digital government;

Accelerating the development of a digital society;

Fully releasing the value of data as a key factor.

IV. Implementing Six Model Projects

Financial digital empowerment project

Digital mining project of the ancient capital

Smart business districts project

City brain infrastructure project

Digital ecosystem improvement project

Digital people-centered service project

V. Introducing and Cultivating Four Types of Benchmarking Enterprises

Introducing and cultivating model enterprises in the fields of digital empowerment, digital finance, digital culture, and digital consumption.

VI. Introducing Six Supporting Measures

The Implementation Plan provides six supporting measures — improving the overall planning and coordination mechanism, building a platform for exchange and innovation, strengthening the monitoring and evaluation system, rolling out pilot programs, strengthening services in talent introduction and training, and improving the digital business environment — for Xicheng District to support the implementation and ensure actual fulfillment of all tasks and objectives.