Author(s)

Jin Baoqi ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Economics, Nanjing Audit University, Nanjing, China

Corresponding Author

Jin Baoqi

ABSTRACT

The digital economy has created new opportunities for regional coordinated development. The eastern, central, and western regions exhibit a growing trend of widening the regional digital divide due to differences in infrastructure, technological applications, and industrial distribution. The regional digital divide leads to differentiation in wealth and information across various regions and has emerged as a significant influencing factor in regional coordinated development with the widespread application of digital technology. The "East Data and west Calculation" project, as the overall design and layout project of the China integrated big data center collaborative innovation system, plays a crucial role in bridging the regional digital divide. Focusing on three key aspects, namely enhancing China computing power through the construction of computing facilities, promoting effective investment in digital industrialization and industrial digitization, and facilitating the transfer of relevant industries by promoting data transmission between the east and west, the project adopts a policy-oriented approach involving multi-entity collaborative cooperation. It embodies a new concept of digital economic development aimed at bridging the regional digital divide.

KEYWORDS

Digital divide; Regional economic development; Digital economy; "East Data and west Calculation"

CITE THIS PAPER

Jin Baoqi, Bridging the Regional Digital Divide from the Perspective of China Integrated Big Data System—An Analysis Based on the "East Counting, West Computing" Project. Information Systems and Economics (2024) Vol. 5: 88-99. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/infse.2024.050412.

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