As an important component and pre-event of this year's Global Digital Economy Conference, the 2024 Beijing Digital Economy Experience Week & Digital Consumption Festival (hereinafter referred to as the "Experience Week") will be open to the public from June 27 to July 2. 

With the theme of "New Experience of Digital Technology, New Fashion of Consumption Upgrading", the Experience Week will display each product from each of Beijing's "16+1" districts, with "digital technology + living consumption" as the main line. Focusing on fields like digital technology, digital industry, and digital life, it will demonstrate the achievements in the development of the digital economy, strengthen the leading and stimulating effect of the digital economy, attract enterprises and consumers related to the digital economy industrial chain to participate, and make the digital economy further integrate with consumption and empower people’s livelihoods.

Let all people share the fruits of digital and intelligent development through diversified experiences

With city-level digital economy experience scenarios as the carrier and the development and application of digital technology as the main line, the Experience Week comprehensively delves into the characteristics of the development of the digital economy in various districts of Beijing, collaborates with digital economy enterprises with leading digital technologies and typical application scenarios, systematically displays the achievements of the city's various industries and sectors in the digital and intelligent development, and gives full play to the multiplier effect of the digital economy to promote high-quality social development.

During the Experience Week, the Metaverse Innovative Product Experience Season will be launched to create a new model of information consumption that leads the country. Besides, a series of new technologies and products for digital experience will be released for the first time around the world, and eight digital economy experience routes covering the core areas of the digital economy such as the metaverse, digital human, BeiDou navigation and satellite remote sensing, smart travel, industrial internet, digital visual intelligence, digital and intelligent manufacturing, artificial intelligence, etc., will be unveiled, involving nearly 30 experience scenarios. Through those "observable, sensible, learnable, and interactive" programs, visitors will be able to fully understand the achievements in the development of Beijing's digital economy, explore the infinite possibilities of the digital economy, and experience the beautiful life brought by scientific and technological advancements.

The registration channel for those experience routes was officially opened on June 24, and visitors are welcome to register for experience the event through the QR code or registration link on the homepage of the official website of the conference.

(https://www.gdec.net.cn/2024/actives/events)

Digital consumption: enjoying a smart life

The goal of the Experience Week is to accelerate the construction of new consumer service scenarios and create new forms of digital consumption, in an effort to form a digital consumption ecosystem that represents the image of Beijing's scientific and technological development, and promote the upgrading of consumption.

The Digital Consumption Festival section will carry out joint activities of information consumption experience centers, release the third batch of information consumption experience centers in Beijing, and unleash the vitality of digital consumption. Besides, it offers experience coupons for various categories of large models, making artificial intelligence reachable to the general public. A double talent selection meeting for new forms of consumption will be held. In addition, digital sports activities will be carried out through multiple channels, enabling visitors to experience the new consumption fashions brought by technology.

A digital future: advancing industrial development

The Experience Week will focus on displaying the comprehensive achievements of the digital economy in all fields and all scenarios and providing interactive experiences. It will fully promote the application of digital technology and advance the pilot utilization of a number of national leading digital innovation solutions for the metaverse, large models and related technologies, lead the ecological transformation with systematic innovation, and inject new momentum into the construction of a benchmark city for the digital economy and the high-quality development of the digital economy.