Author(s)

Gen Li, Liwen Zhang, Tianle Diao, Weiwei Wang, Zheng Liu

Corresponding Author

Gen Li

Abstract

Manufacturing serves as the foundation of the national economy. The paper of the 20th CPC National Congress calls for advancing manufacturing toward intelligent, green, and high-end development. Therefore, the deep integration of the digital economy with the real economy gives new driving force to the high-quality development of the manufacturing industry. This paper takes Zhenjiang City as the research object, discusses how the digital economy drives the transformation and upgrading of its manufacturing sector through five pathways: innovation, coordination, green development, openness, and sharing. Research results show that while the digital economy promotes efficiency, optimizes resource allocation, boosts innovation capabilities, and advances green development, it also faces challenges like unbalanced development, insufficient industrial support, data utilization and protection issues, and transformation outcomes not reaching expectations. Accordingly, this paper proposes recommendations to promote industrial structure optimization and upgrading, establish a unified and open market for data as a factor of production, strengthen government digital governance services, and improve the supply of digital transformation services. These measures aim to strengthen policy guidance and market mechanisms, thereby supporting Zhenjiang’s manufacturing sector in achieving high-quality sustainable development.

Keywords

Digital Economy, Manufacturing, High-Quality Development, Digital Transformation