DEPA模式数字经济新议题及启示

DEPA Template New Topics on Digital Economy and China’s Countermeasures

DEPA模式超越数字贸易的维度,前瞻性地提出一系列数字经济新议题。DEPA模式数字经济新议题推进了跨境数据流动和互操作性等数字贸易议题,吸收了人工智能、金融科技等新兴技术议题,并回应了竞争政策、政府采购、中小企业、数字包容性等数字治理需求,代表着支持数字经济和贸易的新方向。中国应借鉴新加坡推动数字经济协定战略的经验,根据国情选择加入DEPA新兴趋势与技术模块、中小企业合作模块和数字包容性模块,就数字身份模块以及创新与数字经济模块开展试点,对标新议题的规则,加快建立和完善相应国内法律制度,并在双多边国际合作以及其他经贸协定谈判中拓展数字经济新议题。

DEPA template goes beyond the dimension of digital trade, and prospectively proposes a series of new topics on digital economy. DEPA template new topics on digital economy, which represent a new direction for supporting the digital economy and trade, have developed digital trade topics such as cross-border data flows and interoperability, have absorbed emerging technology topics such as artificial intelligence and Fin Tech, and have responded to the demand of digital economic governance such as competition policy, government procurement,small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) cooperation and digital inclusion. China shall borrow Singapore’s experience in promoting the digital economy agreement strategy. Based on its own conditions, China shall choose to join the emerging trends and technologies module, the SMEs cooperation module and the digital inclusion module,and conduct relevant pilot projects on the digital identities module, and the innovation and the digital economy module. Meanwhile, China shall benchmark the rules of DEPA template new topics on digital economy, accelerate the construction and improvement of domestic legal systems and expand new topics of digital economy in the international cooperation and other economic and trade agreement negotiations.