Digital Transformation Trend of the Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry in the Context of New Infrastructure in China

Objective To study the pharmaceutical distribution industry against the background of new infrastructure construction since it is vital to the health and life of the public,and to offer some suggestions to further improve the industry quality and achieve industry upgrading.Methods The national strategies for new infrastructure as well as the underlying logic for enterprise digital transformation were analyzed to provide the outlook on the digital transformation trend of the pharmaceutical distribution industry.Results and Conclusion In the future,the pharmaceutical distribution industry shall transform the pattern,channel,management and control,and experience in the entire business chain in a digital way by focusing on connection efficiency,data efficiency and decision-making efficiency.

Spatio-temporal Evolution Characteristics and Driving Mechanism of the New Infrastructure Construction Development Potential in China

With the advent of the era of big data and artificial intelligence, new infrastructure construction(NIC) has attracted the attention of many countries. The development of NIC provides an opportunity to bridge the digital divide and narrow the regional gap,providing continuous impetus to further promote economic development. Here, we considered 31 provincial-level administrative units in China(not including Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan of China due to data unavailable) and established comprehensive evaluation indicators for the development potential of NIC. Afterward, we used the entropy-weight TOPSIS model to determine the development potential of NIC and analyze its spatio-temporal evolution characteristics. Furthermore, the GeoDetector model was applied to explore the driving mechanism of the NIC development potential. The conclusions were as follows: (1) The Chinese NIC development potential is generally low. The eastern China was the region with the highest development potential year by year, while the development potential in the central China was found to be in an accelerating phase. (2) The evolution of the Chinese NIC development potential’s spatial pattern has been characterized by an inland extension and coastal agglomeration. Moreover, we identified a superior development zone, a rising development zone, an inferior development zone, and a declining development zone. (3) The scope of Chinese NIC development potential agglomeration areas has gradually expanded and its degree has gradually deepened. The range of high-value agglomeration in eastern area gradually expanded and its degree gradually deepened. (4) Investment in innovative talents appears as the core factor affecting the Chinese NIC development potential. Whether acting alone or synergistically with other factors, its promoting effect on Chinese NIC development potential is the strongest.

5G+ABCDNETS:A Feasible Digital Framework for New Infrastructure of Smart Campus

This paper constructs a feasible framework of new infrastructure of smart campus guided by the industry requirements for the construction of new infrastructure of smart campus and based on the technical cooperation of 5G+ABCDNETS.This paper puts forward the deployment parameter table of 5G hybrid private network in the basic network around 3 sub items and 9 construction environments.We designed the specific deployment links of intelligent laboratory,security supervision and scientific research collaboration supported by 14 key technologies such as heterogeneous computing in ABCDNETS,taking the sub item of“smart scientific research facilities”as an example.The research findings of this paper provide preliminary exploration for promoting the implementation of technology in the six construction directions of new infrastructure for education.

A SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION MODEL OF ADOPTION OF A NEW INFRASTRUCTURE WITH MULTI-RESOURCE AND MULTI-DEMAND SITES

This study develops a conceptual system optimization model of adoption of a new infrastructure technology with multiple resource sites and multiple demand sites. With the model, this paper analyzes how the distance, spillover effect, demand, initial investment cost, and learning rate influence the adoption of the new infrastructure technology and presents optimization results of the model in different scenarios. The main findings of the study are： from the perspective of system optimization, （1） different distances among different resource-demand pairs will result in different adoption time of a new infrastructure; （2） technological spillover among different resource-demand pairs will accelerate the adoption of a new infrastructuxe; （3） it is hard to say that higher demand will pull faster adoption of a new infrastructure, and the optimal time of adopting of a new infrastructure is very sensitive to its technological learning rate.

Finance & Infrastructure Lead New Wave of the Belt and Road Investment

Recently,EY released its report Navigating the Belt and Road:Financial sector paves the way for infrastructure,which raises the fact that with the roll-out of the 'One Belt,One Road' initiative and the implementation of a series of reform measures,Chinese enterprises’outbound investments,led by infrastructure construction,continued its

Artificial Intelligence,Structural Change and Labor Income Share

Artificial intelligence(AI)is a strategic technology that leads a new round of technological revolution and structural transformation.This paper studies the effects of AI on structural change and factor income shares.As a general purpose technology and new infrastructure,AI may substitute either labor or capital and its application has differential prospects across sectors.With a multi-sector general dynamic equilibrium model,we find that AI services or AI-specific technologies will reallocate factors between sectors.The direction of the reallocation depends on sectoral differences in the output elasticity of AI and in the elasticity of substitution between AI and traditional modes of production.The process of structural change will in turn change the labor income share.This paper presents the theoretical conditions for the direction of these changes and the underlying economic mechanism.We derive policy implications about how to promote high-quality development with AI.

Construction Direction and Development Path of Digital Educational Resources in the Era of New Educational Infrastructure Construction

Digital educational resources have become essential elements of modern educational public services.China’s national program on new educational infrastructure construction has proposed to take new infrastructure construction of digital educational resources as one of the critical tasks.This paper aims to provide a theoretical basis for advancing the reform and development of digital educational resources in the new era.It classifies the current development and realistic challenges of China’s digital educational resources,and summaries and interprets the directions of the three construction projects of new type resources and tools,the resource supply system,and the resource supervisory system.It depicts the prospect of digital educational resource construction in the intelligent era in the combination of the strategic layout of the policies on new educational infrastructure construction.It also discusses such key technologies supporting new infrastructure construction of digital educational resources as multimodal learning analytics,disciplinary knowledge graphs,machine learning,and blockchain.It finally proposes a specific development path for new infrastructure construction of digital educational resources.

Digital technology-driven smart society governance mechanism and practice exploration

A smart society is an advanced form of society following agricultural society,industrial society,and information society,with digital data processing system as its main carrier.However,the governance of a smart society still faces many challenges.In view of this problem,first,this research constructs a smart society governance modernization strategy.Second,the innovation mode of a society governance mechanism driven by digital technology is proposed,including the precise intellectual control of a digital twin,the intelligent ubiquitous sensing of the Internet of Things,the empowerment remodeling of a blockchain and the livelihood service of artificial intelligence.Third,this study systematically explores the practice of smart society governance modernization from the aspects of basic information platform construction,evaluation system construction,application demonstration of epidemic prevention and control driven by big data,support of spatial intelligence and artificial intelligence technology for people’s livelihood,smart campus,public resources,and data governance application demonstration to provide theoretical guidance for promoting digital technology innovation in the process of the governance of a smart society.

Multikernel:Operating system solution to generalized functional safety

With the trend of digitalization,intelligence,and networking sweeping the world,functional safety and cyber security are increasingly intertwined and overlapped,evolving into the issue of generalized functional safety.Traditional system reliability technology and network defense technology cannot provide quantifiable design implementation theories and methods.As the cornerstone of software systems,operating systems in particular are in need of efficient safety assurance.The DHR architecture is a mature and comprehensive solution,and it is necessary to implement an OS-level DHR architecture,for which the multi-kernel operating system is a good carrier.The multi-kernel operating system takes the kernel as the processing scenario element and constructs redundancy,heterogeneity,and dynamism on the kernel,so it has the generalized robustness of the DHR architecture.This article analyzes the significance and requirements of OS-level DHR architecture,and systematically explains how the multi-kernel operating system responds to the requirements of OS-level DHR architecture by analyzing the technical routes of multi-kernel operating systems and develops an operating system solution idea for the generalized functionally safety.

Towards building a firm metaverse security base

The Metaverse is a significant field that is currently receiving considerable attention from both the industry and academia.The transformation of the Metaverse from science fiction to reality is being actively promoted by technology,industry,and capital.However,the development of the Metaverse is still in its early stages,and the system architecture and theoretical technology of the Metaverse are not yet mature.This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Metaverse and summarizes its holographic,omnipotent,multidimensional,and multifaceted characteristics.The development of the Metaverse is founded on the relevant infrastructure,and we elaborate on the primary components of the Metaverse infrastructure.Furthermore,we systematically summarize the security risks inherent in the Metaverse infrastructure.Based on this,we propose utilizing the system security technology concept to guide the construction of a Metaverse security protection system from various perspectives at each level of computing,cloud,network,digital assets,and terminals,in order to construct a secure foundation for addressing the Metaverse’s security risks and challenges.

The Path and Countermeasures of Provincial Promotion of the Smart Education of China Platform

Digital and smart education has become the new orientation of educational reform.Further promoting the application of the pilot Smart Education of China platform is one of the effective means to implement the 14th Five-Year Plan for National Informatization,an essential deployment of China’s strategic decision on digital education and a pivotal move to stimulate the construction of digital China.With the Smart Education of China as the research object and based on its strategic superiority and connotation of construction,the paper analyzes the current status and development of the construction and application of smart education platforms and resources,explores the patterns and methods of provincial promotion with Jiangsu Province as an example,and puts forth countermeasures and suggestions in terms of platform interconnection,resources construction,innovation mechanism,digital transformation,and safety specification.This paper aims to provide reference and experience for the provincial promotion,application,and practice of the Smart Education of China.It also targets at facilitating the interconnected promotion and innovative application in different places,establishing the“extensively accessible”smart resource public service system at the country,province,city,county,and school levels.