Specialized, specialized, and new SMEs have strong innovation vitality and development resilience, and are an important force in promoting the high-quality development of the national economy. During the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services, the Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Sail and Voyage Forum with the theme of "Empowering Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to Innovate and Development to Help Professionals, Specialties, and New Sails" was held in Beijing Shougang Park. Talking about the high-quality development of small enterprises in many aspects such as docking, investment and financing support.
Small and medium-sized enterprises have strong innovation vitality and development resilience, and are an important force in promoting the high-quality development of the national economy. In recent years, China has attached great importance to cultivating small and medium-sized enterprises. In the 2022 government work report, it was proposed for the first time to focus on cultivating specialized, specialized, and new enterprises, and to provide strong support in building a capital and talent incubation platform.
Guiding small and medium-sized enterprises to take the path of digital transformation and development is a strategic measure to promote the high-quality development of small and medium-sized enterprises and consolidate and strengthen the foundation of the real economy. Zhu Chunxia, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Communications Administration, said at the meeting that to realize the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises, it is necessary to cooperate with all aspects of government, enterprise, industry, academia and research, and use the power of the whole society to actively build a digital transformation ecosystem with Chinese characteristics.
At present, the scale of my country's digital economy industry has ranked second in the world for several years. The digital economy has the attributes of economies of scale, and has the characteristics of promoting the rapid flow of various resource elements and accelerating the integration of market players. Obtain demand information, extend the industrial chain, and achieve equal competition and mutual benefit with large enterprises.
With the innovation of new-generation infrastructure construction such as cloud computing, Internet of Things, and big data, new breakthroughs have been made in the digital economy in all aspects of my country's economic and social development, bringing many opportunities and challenges to the survival and development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Wu Hequan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that my country's small and medium-sized enterprises are still facing the problem of financial constraints. According to the World Bank's estimates, the proportion of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises with credit difficulties has reached 41%, and the actual proportion may be higher. Small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry chain have relatively thin profit margins, few high-end talents, and weak core competitiveness. These challenges still exist.
Small and medium-sized enterprises are the base of the national economic pyramid and the embodiment of national resilience. Whether a country can cope with uncertain changes depends largely on small and medium-sized enterprises. Zhao Zhongxin, vice-chairman and secretary-general of the China Association of Communications Enterprises, believes that from the perspective of the economic development of my country's information and communication industry in the first half of the year, the general development trend is positive, stable and fast, which has helped my country's high-quality development and the income and profits of small and medium-sized enterprises. All hit record highs. In addition, while playing an active role, SMEs are constantly reforming and innovating, looking for new business formats and new development models, and promoting digital transformation and development to enhance their core competitiveness.
This forum is hosted by China Association of Communications Enterprises, Xinhuanet, Beijing Municipal Administration of Communications, China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, China Industrial Internet Research Institute, China United Network Communications Group Co., Ltd., China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd. Co-organized by the company and China Tower Co., Ltd. More than 200 guests from the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Small and Medium Enterprise Development Promotion Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the China Association of Small and Medium Enterprises and related departments and universities participated.