A staff member monitors data at a company in Zhanjiang. [Photo provided by Liu Jicheng/For China Daily]

For small and medium-sized enterprises, the city's "5G plus industrial internet" platform plays an active role in order management, raw material procurement, the completion of production tasks, production and manufacturing collaboration and automatic warehousing.

Agriculture in Zhanjiang is also making great strides on the road to digitalization.

In the agricultural industrial parks, industries such as shrimp, dragon fruit and bananas are empowered by digitalization.

The application scenarios of information technology cover the entire chain of production, processing, branding and marketing.

Big data also improves people's sense of happiness. With a mobile phone, enterprises and citizens can easily handle administrative matters that previously required a series of documents onsite.

In the digital age, "informatization and digitization" has become the cornerstone of the city's digital development and the road for the city's high-quality and leap-forward development, said Liu Hongbing, Party secretary of Zhanjiang.

"The city will focus on building a new system of digital infrastructure to explore paths for industrial transformation. It needs to cultivate new momentum for the digital economy and focus on digital governance to improve social governance capabilities."

According to the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Reform and Construction of Zhanjiang's Digital Government and the Implementation Plan for the Construction of Zhanjiang's New Smart City (2021-25), Zhanjiang will optimize government service and innovate in models through digital transformation.