China International Big Data Industry Expo 2022 (“Big Data Expo 2022”) was successfully held on May 26. Industry leaders from all over the world gathered online for in-depth exchanges on this year’s theme, “Seize New Opportunities, Share Digital Value”.

Through Data Valley Forums, Big Data Expo Release, business exhibitions and other events that are both innovation driven and driving, the Big Data Expo 2022 brings together talents and technologies from all sides to explore and unveil new global trends in digital technologies and industries, and particularly to gather the wisdom and power needed for promoting digital economy in a “digital China”.

8 Data Valley Forums: where ideas and talents converge

How to reshape the digital infrastructure? How to successfully “process eastern data in the west”, or promote “Dong Shu Xi Suan”? What is the metaverse, and what changes will it bring to the economy and society?...

Centered round digital technologies and hot topics such as Dong Shu Xi Suan, data security, metaverse, cloud computing, industrial Internet, and data center, the Big Data Expo 2022 staged eight Data Valley Forums, namely “Dong Shu Xi Suan: Building a National Computing Network System”, “Data Circulation and Transaction and Market Development”, “Data Security”, “Digital Transformation Empowered by Industrial Internet”, “Seizing New Opportunities in the Computing Era -What Digitization and Cloud Computing Mean to the Film and TV Industry?”, “Scenario-based Big Data”, “First Personal Data Center Development Forum”, and “Metaverse”.

At the Forums, politicians, businessmen, scholars, researchers and media professionals jointly put together an intellectual feast for the attendees. Forum participants discussed the new opportunities brought by the national strategy for the development of digital economy - based on China’s 14^th Five-Year Plan for big data and digital economy and the Opinions on Supporting Guizhou as a New-era Trailblazer in the Large-scale Development of Western Regions (Xin Guo Fa Document No.2). Given the growing pace of digital innovation, they also looked into the new opportunities from the Digital Revolution and industrial reforms. They have seen great value in the pooling and sharing of data resources, and they believe that Dong Shu Xi Suan will make China - and the Data Valley in particular - the nexus of global data industry chains. All in all, they agree that data elements have a role to play in both the reorganization and dynamic optimization of traditional factors of production and the omnidirectional transformation of conventional industries.

55 hi-tech achievements: hard power of big data industry

In 2022, the Big Data Expo publicly announced 55 hi-tech achievements, including 24 “new products”, 26 “new technologies” and 5 “business models”. Carefully selected from a pool of 437 entries, these achievements expand the frontiers of industrial, agricultural and tourism sectors, not least phosphorus chemicals, new energy vehicle, advanced equipment manufacturing, aluminum and aluminum processing, electronic information manufacturing, healthcare and other big data-powered segments.

At the release ceremony, the selected products, technologies and models were demonstrated by videos - a smart way to share the latest and greatest of big data.

To incubate the data element market and data management capabilities, this year’s Expo also released the “Top Ten Cases for Big Data”, “China Data Element Market Development Report (2021-2022)”, “White Paper, National Standards and Blue Paper for Magnetic-optical-electric Hybrid Storage System Industry”, “Government e-Service Capability Index Report”, “Cross-strait Big Data Terminology”, “Digital Civilization Trilogy”(in English, French and German), and “Big Data Blue Paper No.6”.

Insiders said that these public-spirited achievements would contribute to the formulation of national strategies and policies, facilitate the integration of big data with other industries, accelerate the incubation of data element market, improve data management capabilities at the corporate level, build a prosperous industry ecosystem, and in turn greatly promote the high-quality development of China’s digital economy.

Digital empowerment: “Expo practices” in the cyberspace

Because of COVID-19, all events of Big Data Expo 2022 were held online. NetEase’s metaverse system “Yaotai” and the Expo’s own online platform “Yunwang” worked together with technologies such as intelligent meeting, personalized AI virtual human, distributed engine, NFT blockchain, and low-latency transmission to provide an immersive experience that promises to define post-pandemic conventions and exhibitions.

This year’s Expo Release brought metaverse technologies into full play. It engaged the visitors in an immersive staging, announcing through a digital avatar the industry-leading new products, technologies and business models.

Yunwang’s 2.5D platform gave exhibitors an opportunity to present themselves in an efficient, secure, and business-savvy way before global trade visitors. Nearly 200 famous enterprises from China, Germany, Japan and other countries participated in this year’s online Exhibition to show what is new in the global big data industries.

The Big Data Expo 2022 is “impressive” in every sense of the word. For the attendees, the prowess of the corporate world is as dazzling as the brainstorm of industry leaders, experts and scholars is dizzying. Most of all, as well as an annual gala of global big data industries, the Expo is a synthesizer of Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions.