新发展格局下中阿数字经济合作的基础与前景

Foundations and Prospects of China-Arab Digital Economic Cooperation under the New Development Pattern

阿拉伯国家是中国建设“一带一路”的天然合作伙伴,也是中国外循环的重要参与方。长期以来,中阿政治互信、相互关切、经贸互通,构筑了中阿国际循环体系的坚实基础。尽管当前世界经济遭受新冠肺炎疫情的重创,但数字经济的提速发展为全球经济社会注入了新动能,也为新发展格局下中阿数字经济合作带来时代契机。在“数字丝路”背景下,中阿数字经济合作覆盖网络联通、电子商务、智慧城市、人才培训等基本领域,并向网络基础设施建设、网络安全等方向延伸。中阿双方在此领域的合作从政府层面到企业层面已取得明显进展,但阿拉伯国家数字经济发展水平整体较低,地区内发展水平高度分化,且以网络基础设施为代表的“硬”基础欠缺和以数字人才为代表的“软”实力不足等问题突出,严重掣肘中阿数字经济合作。新发展格局下,中阿双方需共同努力加强在数字基础设施、数字人才、智慧城市、跨境电商、数字治理等领域的合作,助推数字经济合作成为双方共建“一带一路”高质量发展的路径与方向。

Arab countries are China’s natural partners in the joint construction of the“Belt and Road”and important participants in the external circulation.For a long time,China-Arab political mutual trust,significant concerns,economic and trade connectivity have laid a solid foundation for the China-Arab circulation.Although the world economy has been hit by COVID-19,the accelerated development of digital economy has injected momentum into the economic society,and also brought opportunities for China-Arab digital economic cooperation under the New Development Pattern.Based on the connotation of the“Digital Silk Road”,the China-Arab digital economic cooperation covers fields such as network connectivity,e-commerce,smart city and talent training,and it also extends to cooperation in network infrastructure construction and network security.At present,the outstanding problems of the digital economy development in Arab countries such as the overall low level,high differentiation in the regional development and lack of digital infrastructure and talents,seriously hinder the bilateral digital economic cooperation,although significant progress has been made both in their government level and the enterprise level.Under the New Development Pattern,China-Arab digital economic cooperation will be further deepened in digital infrastructure,digital talent,smart city,cross-border e-commerce,and digital governance by their joint efforts in order to make the bilateral digital economy cooperation become the path of the high-quality development of the“Belt and Road”.