Promote innovation and healthy development of platform economy
2025-12-03
Recently, the rapid development of artificial intelligence has brought new changes to the platform economy and has also triggered thinking about its healthy development. As of June this year, Tencent, Alibaba, Tiktok, Baidu and other platform enterprises have more than 1 billion users. The per capita single day use time and frequency of mobile Internet in China have increased to 7.97 hours and 117.9 times respectively. Platform economy has long been a key link between merchants and consumers. The Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development clearly proposes to improve supervision, promote innovation and healthy development of the platform economy. How to make the platform economy run on a scientific and healthy track more effectively has become a necessary issue. As an important part of the digital economy, platform economy is a general term for economic activities that provide various production and living services on the Internet. In 2024, the total online retail sales in China will be about 15.52 trillion yuan, accounting for 26.8% of the total retail sales of consumer goods. Data shows that platform economy occupies an important position in China's economy. In addition, the platform economy has demonstrated strong innovation vitality since its inception, playing a leading role in supporting innovation, promoting growth, expanding demand, employment and entrepreneurship, and has become an important force in promoting circulation, smooth circulation, and driving the development of the real economy. From shared travel to cross-border e-commerce, from food and beverage delivery to fresh food distribution, the platform economy shows multiple characteristics such as the booming development of digital consumption, the accelerated upgrading of industrial Internet, and the accelerated digitization of the real economy. In addition, the platform economy has gathered a large amount of innovative resources, creating a new innovation ecosystem and becoming a key force in promoting the transformation of cutting-edge technologies such as general artificial intelligence, as well as a testing ground and source for cutting-edge technologies. The rapid development of the platform economy has also made platform employment an important new form of employment. China has introduced policies such as the "Several Opinions on Promoting the Standardized, Healthy and Sustainable Development of Platform Economy", and has initially established a dynamic and innovative market environment and platform economy governance system. However, it should also be noted that platform enterprises have a massive number of users, involvement in numerous fields, and mastery of massive amounts of data, which can easily lead to the phenomenon of using their advantageous position to infringe upon the legitimate rights and interests of the public and damage the fair competition order. In specific applications such as mobile payments, e-commerce, and local life services, risks and challenges such as mandatory "one or two", big data killing, infringement of user privacy, and disorderly expansion of capital often emerge. From a global perspective, the platform economy utilizes network effects, scale effects, and the stickiness of upstream, downstream, and cross domain ecosystems, which can lead to the Matthew effect where the strong become stronger. For example, American Internet enterprises have taken a leading position in the international market by virtue of their first mover advantage and global layout. Google, Amazon and other enterprises have extended their service tentacles to all parts of the world to attract a large number of international users with strong technical strength and brand influence. Various factors indicate that promoting innovation and healthy development of the platform economy is of great significance for promoting economic development, but it is necessary to adhere to both development and standardization. On the basis of clarifying rules and drawing a clear bottom line, we should not only focus on supervision, but also not ignore the innovation of the enterprise's own business model, and establish regulations to regulate it. From a regulatory perspective, it is necessary to strengthen the normalization of platform economy supervision and enhance the ability of data security governance and supervision. Data is a key production factor in the platform economy. We need to accelerate the establishment of mechanisms for identifying data property rights, market transactions, distributing rights and interests, and protecting interests, promote compliant, efficient, and convenient use of data, and fully leverage the advantages of China's massive data and application scenarios. Strengthen the law enforcement of data security governance, optimize the punishment mechanism for data security governance, severely punish data violations and crimes in key areas, and create a favorable environment for data security governance. Establish a cross departmental professional law enforcement team to enhance the regulatory capabilities of market supervision, public security, cyberspace, and other departments. In line with the development trend, actively carry out online supervision, and at the same time create an integrated online and offline supervision system with collaborative supervision functions. For platform enterprises, they should not stop at existing logistics, e-commerce and other business models, but encourage cooperation, win-win, equality and mutual benefit as the focus, and focus on improving their technological innovation capabilities and international competitiveness, striving to create greater value for all parties involved in the platform economy. (New Society)
Edit:Momo Responsible editor:Chen zhaozhao
Source:Economic Daily
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