自党的十九大报告提出建设数字中国以来，我国数字经济快速发展，已逐渐成为实现我国外贸数字化发展的重要支撑。党的二十大报告进一步提出“加快发展数字经济”，“发展数字贸易，加快建设贸易强国”。在此背景下，研究数字经济如何支持新疆外贸数字化转型具有重要的现实意义。从作用机制来看，数字经济可通过促进数字产业化和产业数字化、带来提质增效的数字要素、提高企业的创新能力等3条路径推动新疆外贸数字化发展。目前，新疆数字贸易服务平台已初步建立，外贸数字化转型具备了初步产业基础。但受到数字经济规模小占比低、数字产业与传统产业融合度低、数字要素未得到充分利用、数字技术创新能力不足等制约，新疆外贸数字化转型仍面临数字经济对其驱动力弱等问题。基于此，应进一步完善数字基础设施，培育数字化产业，提高产业数字化水平，建设数字要素市场，增强数字创新能力，加大人才培养力度，以推动新疆外贸数字化发展。

Since the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the construction of a digital China, China's digital economy has developed rapidly and gradually become an important support for achieving the digital development of China's foreign trade. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China further proposes to "accelerate the development of the digital economy" and "promote digital trade to accelerate China's transformation into a trader of quality". In this context, it is of great practical significance to study how the digital economy supports the digital transformation of Xinjiang's foreign trade. From the perspective of mechanism, the digital economy promotes the digital development of Xinjiang's foreign trade through three aspects: promoting digital industrialization and industrial digitization, bringing digital elements for improving quality and efficiency, and improving the innovation ability of enterprises. At present, Xinjiang's digital trade service platform has been initially established, and the digital transformation of foreign trade has a preliminary industrial foundation. However, restricted by such factors as small scale of digital economy, low proportion of digital economy, low integration of digital industry and traditional industry, insufficient use of digital elements, and insufficient digital technology innovation capability, Xinjiang's foreign trade digital transformation is faced with such problems as low driving force of digital economy. Therefore, this paper proposes paths such as improving digital infrastructure, cultivating and guiding digital industries, improving the level of industry digitization, building a digital factor market, enhancing digital innovation capabilities and talent cultivation, and effectively promoting the digital development of Xinjiang's foreign trade.