A view of Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/hz66.com]

Huzhou in East China's Zhejiang province recently unveiled an action plan to boost the development of its digital economy.

According to the plan, authorities aim to lift the added value of its digital economy and its core industries to 300 billion yuan ($43.57 billion) and 50 billion yuan respectively by 2027.

The added value of the city's digital economy should account for over a half of its GDP by that time.

Concerted efforts will be made to develop competitive digital industrial clusters for semiconductors, photoelectricity, automotive electronics and geographic information, and blaze new trails in the children's clothing, elevator and chair industries.

Huzhou authorities have set a target of building 300 smart workshops, 60 smart manufacturing companies and 80 provincial industrial internet platforms by 2027. The per capita production efficiency in the city is also projected to reach 280,000 yuan by that time, according to the plan.

Additionally, the city will endeavor to advance digitalization in agriculture by building a number of digital "brains" for the fishery, sheep farming and white tea planting industries.

In February, all administrative areas under the jurisdiction of Huzhou made the 2022 list of national advanced places in terms of digitalization in agriculture and rural areas.

This is the fourth time that Huzhou has had all of its administrative areas classified as areas that have highly digitalized agricultural and rural areas, making it the first city in the nation to achieve this feat.