China's digital economy reached 31.3 trillion yuan (4.6 trillion U.S.dollars) in 2018, accounting for 34.8 percent of the country's total GDP, according to a report released by the Cyberspace Administration of China on Monday.
As the city of Fuzhou prepares to host the second Digital China Summit, one could be forgiven for thinking that they are seeing a window into the future, replete with driverless cars, smart cups and wrist-mounted smartphones, bound together by 5G technology.