A child looks at a sand table of a green energy factory during the 8th China-South Asia Expo in Kunming city, Yunnan province, southwest China. (PHOTO: XINHUA)

China has released a comprehensive blueprint aimed at fostering the synergistic transformation and development of digitization and greenification across various regions and industries.

Digitized and green development has increasingly become a trend in global economic and social transformation. In recent years, many regions in China have pioneered models that integrate digitization with greenification, forming a batch of replicable and promotable application scenarios and successful examples. Despite these advancements, some regions continue to face challenges such as unsound technical systems, inconsistent standards and norms and a low level of synergy in digitization and greenification.

The blueprint points out two major directions for the integrated development of digitization and greenification.

The first is to accelerate the green and low-carbon development of the digital industry and promote the green transformation of data centers, communication base stations, and electronic information products. The second is to leverage the innovative role of digital technology enterprises to drive green transformation in nine fields: electricity, mining, metallurgy, petrochemicals, transportation, construction, urban development, agriculture and ecology.

For example, in the mining sector, the blueprint proposes encouraging enterprises to adopt digital technologies such as digital twins and AI to strengthen green and intelligent control during the mining process, and facilitate coordinated development between mineral resource exploitation and ecological environmental protection.

Meanwhile, in the metallurgical sector, local governments and relevant departments are expected to collaborate with industry associations to further strengthen the integrated application of digital technology in production processes, improve energy consumption monitoring levels, and enhance the level of digitization and greenification within the industrial chain, achieving full-process green transformation.