Abstract: Chinese path to modernization with Chinese characteristics while absorbing and summarizing the modernization models of various countries in the world, is a major innovation of modernization theories for the developing countries. Faced with uncertainties brought by events like the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the US-China technology competition to the international politics and economy, the digital infrastructure, the core of the digital economy, has gradually become a strategic industry for a countries’ core competitiveness. Therefore, combined with the Chinese path to modernization theory, the connotation of digital infrastructure, the development of China’s digital infrastructure, and trends of international cooperation in digital infrastructure construction briefly are analyzed to point out challenges at this time. In the end, several policy recommendations for China’s digital infrastructure cooperation in the future in accordance with four key points of the Chinese path to modernization theory are proposed.

Key words: Chinese path to modernization, digital infrastructure, international cooperation