Integration of real and digital economies way to create jobs

China's overall employment situation has stabilized in the first half of the year, with steady progress being made in the creation of new jobs.

Since young people such as college graduates still face great pressure finding jobs, the country needs to further dig out potential jobs, and give full play to the role of the digital economy in creating job opportunities.

The development of digital technology has given birth to new industries and new business formats and new models, and created a number of new jobs.

Given that digital products or services have high added value and high technology contents, they can better respond to the needs for consumption upgrading, and have more development potentials and investment opportunities than traditional industries.

The development of digital industrialization and industrial digitization can increase the market-oriented flow of labor among different industries. As the largest employment sector, the deep integration between services and digital technology will create new employment value, and the full unleashing of digital dividends in all industries will create more job opportunities. As labor demand gradually shifts from traditional manual work to high creativity and high value-added work, workers must improve their skills to keep up with demand. The integrated development of the digital economy and the real economy, as manifested by the application of digital technologies such as internet, big data and artificial intelligence in the real economy, will greatly improve the total factor productivity of the real economy, and improve the employment environment and salary and welfare level of employees.

Therefore, China should further implement the strategy of innovation-driven development, promote digital industrialization, improve the market-based allocation mechanism for data elements, focus on developing such core digital industries as internet, the internet of things, big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence, and gradually form digital industrial chains and digital industrial clusters backed by advanced technologies.

It should accelerate the deep integration of internet, big data, and artificial intelligence with the real economy, focus on the development of smart manufacturing, smart transportation, and smart energy, and improve the construction of digital supply chains, to promote the integrated development of digital technologies and manufacturing. It should also work harder to establish an industrial internet infrastructure system, accelerate the digital transformation of traditional manufacturing, and try to create more job opportunities in sharpening its international competitiveness and expanding its industrial chain.

ECONOMIC DAILY