Boost for Digital Transformation of SMEs
By LI Linxu
In its latest push to advance high-quality development, China has issued a guideline to facilitate the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Focusing on the digital transformation capacities of SMEs, five measures have been put forward by the guideline recently released by Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).
These measures include carrying out digitalization evaluation, advancing management digitalization, launching business digitalization, integrating digitalization ecology, and optimizing digitalization practices.
Given its large number and wide business scope, SMEs are not only a key part but a difficult point of the country's digital transformation, said an official from MIIT, adding that their successful transformation is critical to the high-quality development of the country's economy.
Digital technologies are applied in an embroidery enterprise in Zhuji city, Zhejiang province. (PHOTO: XINHUA)
Policy support will be strengthened, said MIIT, vowing that more resources will be invested in the areas of technology, capital, service, and talent for SME transformation.
The construction of new-type infrastructure such as industrial Internet, AI, 5G and big data, as well as relevant public service systems, will be speeded up, so as to create a more favorable environment for the digital transformation of SMEs.
SMEs are urged to actively carry out digital transformation in light of their own conditions, while digital service providers and Internet platforms are urged to develop more convenient solutions for the issues faced by SMEs.
Under the guideline, replicable and promotable experience will also be developed to bolster the digital transformation of SMEs.
According to an earlier plan, about 4,000 to 6,000 SMEs selected from 100 industries, including automobile, textile and pharmaceutical sectors, are expected to be nurtured as digital transformation models during 2022-2025.