China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping has laid out his plans of a digital economy in the country with the 5G network being the backbone while nationwide data management would be the core of this vision. The president has therefore channeled the forces of technology to serve socio-economic development in the country in order to drive its economy. China has the second-largest economy in the entire world right behind the United States. “The development of the digital economy is of great significance, and a strategy to grasp new opportunities in technological revolution and industrial transformation,” President Xi Jinping wrote in a...