East China's Zhejiang Province is crafting the World Digital Economy Conference 
2019, a three-day event from September 6-8, into an international platform for 
industrial communication and cooperation to shape itself into a model province 
for building Digital China. 

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The conference, concurrently held with the 9th China Smart City and Intelligent 
Economy Expo, was convened in Ningbo of Zhejiang and attracted a host of 
reputed scholars including George F. Smoot, a Nobel laureate in Physics, and 
Pan Yunhe, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Zhejiang, a pioneer for developing the digital economy in China, launched the 
conference together with the local government of Ningbo to share new concepts, 
achievements and trends of digital economy, exhibit advanced digital economy 
technologies, products and application scenes and pool more innovative factors 
and advantages.

In recent years, the Chinese coastal province has taken digital economy as its 
top priority and implemented a 5-year plan for boosting digital economy, 
expanding its digital economy industrial clusters and advancing transformation 
of the manufacturing industries.

In 2018, Zhejiang boasted a total output of digital economy at 2.33 trillion 
yuan, up 19.26 percent year on year and taking up 41.54 percent of its 
provincial gross product.

For the next step, the province aims to increase its total provincial output of 
digital economy to more than four trillion yuan by 2022, which will account for 
over 55 percent of its provincial gross product. 

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Photo caption: The World Digital Economy Conference 2019 and the 9th China 
Smart City and Intelligent Economy Expo was held in Ningbo, China.

Source: Xinhua Silk Road Information Service

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