On December 22, 2023, the Main Forum of the ICT Insight Seminar 2024 of China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (referred to as the "CAICT") was successfully held in Beijing. Wang Zhiqin, Vice President of CAICT, released the Top Ten ICT Trends in 2024 under the theme of New Industrialization Leading the New Direction of ICT Development.

　　The ICT industry is strategic, fundamental, and pioneering. It is the important content of and approach to industrial and supply chain security, the main sphere and catalyst of industrial innovation, the leading force for optimizing and upgrading industrial structure, the main engine for empowering new industrialization with artificial intelligence, and the practitioner and enabler of green industrial development. The high-quality development of ICT industry can lead and promote the achievement of multiple tasks and goals in new industrialization. It also has a strong empowering effect, providing effective solutions to many problems encountered in the process of new industrialization. The ICT industry will further enhance and improve its capability in supporting network, leading innovation, promoting integration and empowerment, safeguarding security, and constructing ecological system, maximize its leading and enabling effects, promote new industrialization and realize Chinese path to modernization.

　　In 2024, ICT technology will be widely and deeply integrated into all aspects of the manufacturing industry, promoting the development of new industrialization; Driven by the big model of artificial intelligence, intelligent computing power, computing infrastructure, and network technology such as 5G-A continue to integrate and innovate, promoting the high-quality development of ICT industry; The comprehensive integration of digital technology and real economy has entered a new stage, and the multiplier effect of data elements comes into play. At the same time, the international and domestic digital governance systems are constantly improving, and security assurance capabilities are constantly strengthening.

　　Top Ten ICT Trends:

　　1. The digitalization of manufacturing industry is advancing in scale, and the integration of technologies promotes industrial transformation.

　　2. The growth of ICT industry is steadily recovering, and the path of integrated innovation is speeding up evolution.

　　3. The capability of AI big model continues to increase, comprehensively laying a new intelligent foundation.

　　4. The demand for intelligent computing power is rising rapidly, and advanced computing systems are being comprehensively upgraded.

　　5. Computing power facilities are diverse, heterogeneous and ubiquitous, and computing power interconnection accelerates network innovation.

　　6. The iterative evolution of enhanced 5G technology continues to enrich industry application scenarios.

　　7. The digital economy has maintained stable growth, and the comprehensive integration of digital technology and real economy goes deeper and becomes more practical.

　　8. The supply and application of data begin to exert influence, and the multiplier effect of data elements becomes increasingly manifest.

　　9. Digital governance becomes more integrated and collaborative, and the global governance landscape is undergoing profound adjustments.

　　10. The level of resilience is enhanced to resist extreme attacks, and the level of intelligence is boosted to cope with complex threats.

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