Digital science and technology, serving as the new symbolic application technologies of the information revolution era, are undergoing exponential leapfrog development, which are increasingly driving the evolution of the digital economy, colliding with and integrating into the three major industries of human society and overall social development.

Digital science and technology have the power to change the world and are also being transformed by it. Narrowly defined, the digital economy can be understood as giving birth to a new economy through digital economization and enhancing the old economy through economic digitization. Broadly speaking, it can also extend to the realms of public services and social development. The research scope of the Digital Economy Laboratory is defined in three areas: fundamental theoretical research, think tank research, and industrial incubation development. It encompasses studies on digital industries (the primary, secondary, and tertiary sectors of the national economy and their subdivisions) and digital regions (digital cities, digital free trade ports, digital bay areas, etc.), digital commerce (digital transactions, digital credit, digital risk control, digital enterprise empowerment, quantitative trading, digital supply chain finance, etc.), and digital governance (digital government). By integrating top-notch research resources and economic resources in applied mathematics, computer science, economics, finance, public policy, etc., it forges a path for the integrated development of academia, think tanks, and industry. Relying on and contributing to BIMSA, Digital Economy Lab actively engages with the world and serves the country.

The Digital Economy Laboratory holds a leading position domestically and ranks among the best internationally in research areas such as the integration of basic and applied mathematics with economics, data trading and data elements based on Web 3.0, enterprise digital empowerment, digital governance, and quantitative trading. The laboratory regularly publishes the "China Digital Economy Index" and the "China Digital Economy White Paper". Its research in data trading, data elements, and data assets has reached unicorn potential and entered the stage of industrial application.