数字经济是推动高质量发展和构建新发展格局的重要引擎。经济特区是我国经济体制改革的试验田和对外开放的窗口，发展数字经济是继续发挥先行示范作用的重要部署。本报告首先从数字产业化和产业数字化、数字基础设施建设、数字政府、智慧城市、数字贸易等方面介绍深圳、珠海、汕头、厦门和海南5个经济特区数字经济发展的基本情况，其次对经济特区在数字产业集群、数据要素市场、数字政府和数字贸易方面面临的困境进行分析，具体包括数字产业集聚度不高、数据要素市场建设缓慢、新技术在数字政府治理中应用不充分等。最后针对问题提出对策建议：协同推进产业数字化和数字产业化；加快培育数据要素市场，完善法律法规和制度体系；建立健全数字政府协同机制，提高政府治理的数字化水平；积极对接国际高标准数字贸易规则。
The digital economy is an important engine for promoting high-quality development and building a new development pattern. Special economic zones are experimental fields for China’s economic system reform and windows for opening up to the outside world. Developing the digital economy is an important deployment to continue to play a leading and exemplary role. This report first introduces the basic situation of digital economy development in five special economic zones，namely Shenzhen，Zhuhai，Shantou，Xiamen，and Hainan，from the aspects of digital industrialization and industrial digitization，digital infrastructure construction，digital government，smart cities，and digital trade. Then，analyze the challenges faced by special economic zones in digital industry clusters，data factor markets，digital governments，and digital trade. Finally，propose collaborative promotion of industrial digitization and digital industrialization to address the issues；Accelerate the cultivation of the data element market and improve the legal，regulatory，and institutional system；Establish and improve the collaborative mechanism of digital government，and enhance the digital level of government governance；Actively aligning with international high standards and accelerating the construction of a digital trade rule system.
