| Tier 1 indicators | Tier 2 indicators | Tier 3 indicators | Data sources |
| Digital economy infrastructure | Traditional digital infrastructure | Fiber optic line length | China National Bureau of Statistics (CNBS) |
| Telephone penetration (including cell phones) | China Information Yearbook | ||
| Mobile telephone exchange capacity | CNBS | ||
| Cell phone year-end subscribers | CNBS | ||
| New digital infrastructure | Number of Internet broadband access ports | CNBS | |
| Internet broadband access subscribers | CNBS | ||
| Number of Internet domain names | CNBS | ||
| Websites per 100 businesses | CNBS | ||
| Computers per 100 population | CNBS | ||
| Digital economy development environment | Digital talent | Number of general higher education institutions | CNBS |
| Number of degrees conferred by general institutions of higher education at the undergraduate level | CNBS | ||
| Digital environment | Employment in the postal sector | CNBS | |
| Employment in the information transmission, software and information technology services industry | CNBS | ||
| Industrial digitization | Agriculture | Rural broadband access subscribers | CNBS |
| Value added of agriculture, forestry, livestock and fisheries | CNBS | ||
| Industries | Value added by industry | CNBS | |
| Share of enterprises with e-commerce trading activities | CNBS | ||
| E-commerce turnover of industrial enterprises | CNBS | ||
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| Revenue from sales of new products | CNBS |
| Tertiary sector of industry | Value added of tertiary industry | CNBS | |
| Express mail volume | CNBS | ||
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| Revenue from express delivery operations | CNBS |
| Digital industrialization | Telecommunications industry | Volume of telecommunication services | CNBS |
| Postal industry | Total postal operations | CNBS | |
| Postal service outlets | CNBS | ||
| Software and information technology services | Revenue from software operations | China Electronic Information Industry Statistical Yearbook (CEIISY) | |
| Income from information technology services | CEIISY | ||
| Electronic information manufacturing | Main business income of the manufacturing industry of communications equipment, computers and other electronic equipment | Statistical Yearbook of China’s Industrial Economy | |
| Digital innovation | R&D investment and number of projects | R&D expenditures of industrial enterprises above scale | China Science and Technology Statistical Yearbook (CSTSY) |
| Number of R&D projects (topics) of industrial enterprises above large scale | CSTSY | ||
| R&D efficiency | Ratio of domestic patent applications authorized to full-time equivalents of R&D personnel in industrial enterprises above scale | CSTSY | |
| Patents and intellectual property | Number of active patents | CSTSY |