The Strategies and Pathways for Constructing a Higher-Level Open Economic New System in the Context of the Digital Economy
Constructing a higher-level open economic system is a major strategic deployment in China's new era,with the digital economy serving as a crucial support for open economic system.Leveraging the dynamic evolution framework of"technology-economy-institution",the digital economy continuously innovates the global economic system,accelerating the adjustment of global industrial structures,the division of labor in value chains,and the construction of economic and trade rules.China should respond promptly to the evolution of the international economic order and global value chains on a larger scale,in broader areas,and at deeper levels,expan-ding and innovating the developmental space,market scope,and governance system of its open economy.Facing technological,struc-tural,institutional,and risk challenges in the global digitization process,China should focus on the international evolution patterns and domestic competitive advantages of the digital economy.It should enhance the driving effect of digital value chains on the open econo-my,promote the organizational connections of digital markets to the open economy,deepen the institutional integration of digital regula-tions and the open economy,and strengthen the systemic safeguards of digital governance for the open economy.By building a new high-er-level open economic system that focuses on institutional openness,supported by digital openness and the openness of factor mobili-ty,China aims to promote broader comprehensive openness,wider bi-directional openness,deeper proactive openness,and more sus-tainable secure openness.