Digital economy bringing beneficial disruption

A former classmate, who resigned from her job as a research and development engineer at Facebook in the United Kingdom, has returned to Beijing and joined a local startup providing artificial intelligence technology and services. The startup has attracted strategic investment from the three biggest State-owned banks in China.

After eight years of studying and working in the UK and obtaining a PhD in computer science from Oxford University, my classmate saw China as the ideal place to develop her career in the high-tech sector.

The digital economy is expected to be a hot discussion topic in the coming days during the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.