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Digital economy to create 200m jobs

China's digital economy has the potential to create over 200 million jobs by 2020, the Economic Information Daily reported. "The development of the digital economy not only advances an employment upgrade but also brings about new job opportunities," Sun Ke, director of the Digital Economy Research Institute of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), told the newspaper. Sun said the digital transformation of traditional industries has become an important channel to create new jobs. The secondary industry is the major sector that has huge potential to create new jobs through digital transformation, said the newspaper.

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