The General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) and the General Office of the State Council
recently issued and circulated a strategic plan to guide
informatization development from 2006 to 2020.
The plan sets strategic goals for China's informatization
development, which encompass popularizing the country's overall
information infrastructure; nurturing independent innovations in
the field of information technology; optimizing the structure of
the information industry; raising the level of guaranteeing state
information security; improving the informatization process in
economic and societal terms; setting up a new mode for
industrialization; improving the policy and systems environment for
state informatization development; and enhancing the people's
ability to apply information technology.
Concrete goals include:
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To make full use of information technology to facilitate the shift
of the economic growth mode from one that relies on capital and
resources input, to one that focuses on sci-tech progress and labor
quality improvement.
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To use information technology to transform and upgrade traditional
industries and develop the information service industry to assist
in the strategic adjustment of the nations' economic structure.
Information technology can also be applied to help reduce energy
and materials consumption and strengthen the monitoring and control
of environmental pollution.
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To encourage more independent innovations in information technology
and information industry development.
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To fully utilize international and domestic markets and resources,
digesting and assimilating introduced technologies, making
breakthroughs in key technologies, mastering core technologies. The
ultimate objective is to elevate China from a position of learning
and using foreign technologies to one that creates.
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To raise the levels of Internet popularization, information
resources development and application and information security.
Harnessing the transfer of technology to establish a world-class
information infrastructure that is safe and integrates a range of
networks.
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To set up a scientific concept for information resources, that is,
to raise the importance of information resources development to
equal that of energy and materials, thereby creating the necessary
conditions for the development of a knowledge-intensive
industry.
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To improve the public service abilities of the government, as well
as its ability to disseminate concepts of an advanced socialist
culture. Also, to generally increase the people's ability to use
and apply information technology.
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To improve the application of e-government, closely link social
administration and public services, and promote the networking of
public services.
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To improve the informatization of the military.
(China.org.cn by Yuan Fang, May 11, 2006)