The Assistance of Digital Economy to the Revitalization of Rural China

Abstract

In recent years, China's digital economy has rapidly developed and has been applied to lots of fields. Moreover, the development of digital economy is closely related to the strategy of rural revitalization. The realization of rural revitalization requires the meeting points between digital economy and rural revitalization. Therefore, we need to make the most of the advantages of digital economy and vigorously promote the development of rural revitalization. According to the implementation requirements of the rural revitalization strategy and the development of the digital economy, the author believes that digital economy is strongly connected to the industrial prosperity, targeted poverty alleviation and talent revitalization required by the rural revitalization, and efforts can also be made in these aspects in the future to promote a better combination between digital economy and rural revitalization. 1. Digital economy and rural revitalization With the development of high and new technology represented by information technology, the digital economy which is characterized by informatization has a booming development and has been widely applied to other economic fields. According to China's " Internet plus"index report (2018), the size of the country's digital economy was 26.70 trillion yuan in 2017, which was 17.24 % higher than the same period of last year. Nowadays, the development of China's digital economy has begun to change China’s traditional economic structure and gradually become a new impetus of development. As an agricultural country, China has a rural population of 900 million, accounting for 70% of the whole country. Therefore, agricultural development, people's livelihood improvement and rural revitalization are particularly important during the crucial period of finishing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. The 19th national congress of CPC has put forward to carry out the strategy of rural rejuvenation, and In the opinions of the CPC central committee and the state council on the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the No. 1 document of the CPC central committee in 2018, the CPC central committee has made major decisions and arrangements for the work related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers. It also has repeatedly mentioned "Internet plus", “modern agricultural action”, "the implementation of digital rural strategy" and "digital rural agriculture" these words in the document. It can be seen that the development of digital economy is more and more closely related to the implementation of rural revitalization strategy, so we need to use the opportunities to implement rural revitalization. It's also better for us to make full use of the advantages of digital economy to achieve the integration between the real economy and artificial environment and then to promote the process of rural revitalization. 2. Digital economy contributes to the revitalization of rural areas 2.1 Digital countryside and smart agriculture To improve agricultural equipment and information technology. On the one hand, we should strengthen research and development of smart agricultural technologies and equipment, establish an agricultural remote sensing application system based on aerial drones and satellite remote sensing, and apply cloud computing, artificial intelligence and other technologies to agricultural production 702 Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 314 4th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2019)