In the global wave of the fourth industrial revolution centered on artificial intelligence, the digital economy has risen to become the core engine driving economic growth, leading industrial innovation and reconfiguring the social ecology.China has made it clear that the digital economy is a strategic high point for winning the initiative in international competition.With the penetration of the "AI+" initiative into various industries, the digital industry, the development and utilization of data resources, the AI innovation chain, the industrial Internet, digital finance and other emerging fields are booming, and society's demand for composite talents who understand both the laws of the economy and AI technology has shown explosive growth.
The digital economy major is a new liberal arts cross-disciplinary major that takes economics as its foundation, deeply integrates cutting-edge digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, cloud computing, and so on, and penetrates the multi-disciplinary system of economics, management, science, and engineering.In 2022, the university will launch a pilot class on digital economy, relying on the university's cross-research platforms of artificial intelligence + digital economy - the Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education on Intelligent Service Technology for Digital Publishing, the Hubei Provincial Engineering Research Center for Big Data in E-commerce, etc., and employing a team of more than 20 high-level faculty members who have long been engaged in artificial intelligence and digital economy, the class will focus on the development needs of the convergence of artificial intelligence and digital economy.Focusing on the needs of the integrated development of artificial intelligence and digital economy, relying on the university's advantageous engineering heritage, focusing on building a new talent training system to drive economic development with digital technology innovation, focusing on cultivating composite talents with the trinity of knowledge structure of "digital literacy + economic thinking + AI capability", and centering on new industries, new business forms and new modes of digital economy.We systematically cultivate students' four core competencies: the ability to construct digital economy theory system, the ability to analyze intelligent algorithms and big data, the ability to design solutions for digital transformation of industries, and the ability to govern and transform the value of data elements.
Main Courses: Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Computational Economics, Principles of Digital Economy, Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Python Machine Learning, Data Governance, Data Asset Operation, Database Principles, Platform Economics, Industrial Digital Solutions and other core courses.
Graduates can be engaged in digital economy policy formulation and data governance in government departments, digital transformation and data asset operation in enterprises and institutions, and AI scene development and algorithm optimization in Internet companies.
