Smart society key to growth, says cyberspace official

More work is required to build a digital China and a smart society, which will inject strong impetus into the country's economic growth, said a senior government official.

"More efforts are needed to make breakthroughs in core technologies, improve the commercialization of innovation outcomes, promote the optimization and upgrading of information infrastructure, further integrate the digital economy with the real economy, narrow the digital divide between urban and rural areas and actively participate in improving the global internet governance system," said Yang Xiaowei, deputy director of the Cyberspace Administration of China.

Yang made the remarks at a State Council Information Office news conference on Tuesday, saying the government will be well-prepared for the 5G commercialization and the large-scale use of the internet protocol version 6-based network.