What is good about strengthening the construction of digital government？

　　People’s Daily Online, Beijing, April 24 (Fang Jinglun, Zhu Jiang) Recently, the 25th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform (hereinafter referred to as the meeting) deliberated and adopted the Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of Digital Government.

　　The meeting pointed out that strengthening the construction of digital government is an important measure to innovate the concept and mode of government governance, which is of great significance to accelerating the transformation of government functions and building a government ruled by law, a clean government and a service-oriented government.

　　"Digital government is an important support for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity." Ouyang Kang, dean of the National Governance Research Institute of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, said that using data to lead, express, recognize and deal with various issues can form a powerful driving force for social governance.

　　Digital government will bring convenience to ordinary people.

　　The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to satisfy people’s yearning for a better life as the starting point and foothold of digital government construction, and to create a ubiquitous, intelligent, convenient, fair and inclusive digital service system, so that people can run less errands and run more data.

　　Liang Ma, a special researcher at the National Development and Strategy Institute of Renmin University of China and a professor at the School of Public Administration, said that the construction of digital government is people-centered, and everything starts from the needs of the people and provides high-quality public services through digital means. For example, design a simpler interactive interface and a more efficient workflow for government software.

　　"Further building a digital government can make the government’s service areas broader, service content richer, service methods smarter and more convenient, and service effects more humanized, so that people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security can be significantly improved." Ouyang Kang, for example, in the face of the epidemic, a series of digital means, such as trip code and health code, provided strong support for timely monitoring the evolution of the epidemic, publishing the epidemic dynamics, judging the epidemic situation, and implementing epidemic prevention and control measures, and also made more people feel the value of the digital transformation of the government in improving social governance and public service capabilities.

　　The "Strong Observation" column of People’s Daily found that the related work of digital government construction in China is progressing steadily. China takes the national government service platform as the general hub, connects the government service platforms of various regions and departments, and forms a national integrated government service platform. By December 2021, the platform had more than 800 million real-name users. The Opinions of the General Office of the State Council on Accelerating the Expansion of the Application Fields of Electronic Certificates and National Mutual Recognition proposes that by the end of 2022, the certificates commonly used by enterprises and the masses will be basically electronic, issued and applied synchronously with the physical certificates, and the standards will be unified and mutually recognized nationwide … …

　　The construction of digital government will improve the efficiency of government governance

　　The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to use digital reform to help transform government functions, coordinate and promote the intensive construction, interconnection and collaborative linkage of government application systems in various industries and fields, and give play to the important supporting role of digitalization in the government’s performance of economic regulation, market supervision, social management, public services and ecological environmental protection, and build a coordinated and efficient government digital performance ability system.

　　Specifically, how to understand the transformation and support of government functions brought by the construction of digital government?

　　Ouyang Kang said that strengthening the construction of digital government can promote the accuracy of social cognition. Through big data, the government can fully, accurately and timely understand the real situation and evolution trend of all members of society, so as to make appropriate value judgments and trend analysis of social conditions and people’s feelings, and build good governance of the government on the basis of being more in line with social reality.

　　"At the same time, it can promote the scientific decision-making of the government." Ouyang Kang further stated that the government can use big data and intelligent decision-making system to intelligently compare various important decisions through various alternatives, make scientific pre-research and risk assessment on their possible consequences and their long-term effects, and strive for scientific decision-making, optimize decision-making and promote scientific decision-making.

　　There are also these key points in the construction of digital government.

　　The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to promote technology integration, business integration and data integration as a whole, and improve the collaborative management and service level across levels, regions, systems, departments and businesses.

　　Ouyang Kang said that the overall requirements and strategic measures put forward by the meeting will hopefully solve the problem of "information islands" formed by the lack of communication between all aspects and types of data, and help realize the integration and sharing of data.

　　In addition, the meeting pointed out that we should always tighten the string of data security, speed up the construction of an all-round security guarantee system for digital government, and comprehensively strengthen the security management responsibility of digital government.

　　"We must establish the bottom line thinking and regard digital security as the ‘ Lifeline ’ Incorporate into the overall national security concept system and implement it through legislation, establishment of technical security support system and digital security guarantee system. " Ouyang Kang said.