The National Internet Information Office released the Report on the Construction and Development of Digital China (2017).
In order to implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, especially the strategic thought of strengthening the country through the Internet, and solidly promote the implementation of the Outline of the National Informatization Development Strategy and the Thirteenth Five-Year National Informatization Plan, the National Internet Information Office, together with relevant parties, organized research on the informatization development of various departments in various regions, studied and designed the evaluation index system for informatization development, and carried out evaluation work, and compiled the Report on the Construction and Development of Digital China (2017) (hereinafter referred to as the Report). The Report summarizes the great achievements and basic experience in the construction of digital China since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, evaluates the progress of the main objectives, major tasks, key projects and priority actions of the informatization development in the 13th Five-Year Plan, analyzes the situation faced by the construction of digital China, and puts forward the next direction of efforts. The full text of the Report is as follows:
Digital China Construction and Development Report (2017)
In today’s world, information technology innovation is changing with each passing day. Whoever occupies the commanding heights in informatization will be able to seize the opportunities, win the advantages, win the security and win the future. There is no modernization without informatization. On April 20, 2018, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized at the National Cyber Security and Informatization Work Conference that informatization has brought a golden opportunity to the Chinese nation, and we must keenly seize the historical opportunity of informatization development. The Outline of National Informatization Development Strategy puts forward "accelerating the construction of digital China". The 13th Five-Year National Informatization Plan takes "remarkable achievements in the construction of digital China" as the general goal of China’s informatization development. Building a digital China is a strategic measure to implement the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, especially the strategic thought of strengthening the country by network, an inevitable requirement to seize the opportunity of the information revolution and build a new competitive advantage of the country, and an urgent need to promote the development of informatization, better serve the economic and social development and accelerate the construction of a socialist modern power.
First, digital China opens a new journey of China’s informatization development
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has attached great importance to the development of informatization, strengthened the top-level design and overall layout, and made a strategic decision to build a digital China. Digital China is a new strategy for national informatization development in the new era, a new measure to meet people’s growing needs for a better life, and a new driving force to lead high-quality economic development, covering the informatization construction in various fields such as economy, politics, culture, society and ecology, including "broadband China", "internet plus", big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, digital economy, e-government, new smart cities, digital villages and so on, and promoting informatization.
(1) The top-level design framework of digital China is completed.
In the past five years, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council have successively issued major strategic plans such as the Outline of National Informatization Development Strategy and the Thirteenth Five-Year National Informatization Plan, clarifying the road map and timetable for the construction and development of digital China, and clarifying that the overall goal of the construction of digital China in the new era is to keep pace with the goal of "two hundred years", comprehensively support the development of the party and the state, promote balanced, inclusive and sustainable economic and social development, and provide a solid foundation for the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. It is clear that the construction of digital China should carry out the people-centered development thought, take improving people’s well-being as the starting point and the end result of informatization development, and make informatization better benefit the people; It is clear that the three strategic tasks of the construction of digital China are to vigorously enhance the ability of informatization development, focus on improving the level of economic and social informatization, and constantly optimize the environment for informatization development; It is clear that the six main directions of the construction of digital China are to coordinate the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country by network, the strategy of big data and the "internet plus" action, integrate and concentrate resources, focus on leading innovation to foster new development momentum, focus on promoting balanced development and optimizing the new development pattern, focus on supporting green development and building a new development model, focus on deepening open cooperation and expanding new development space, focus on promoting joint construction and sharing, release new development dividends, and focus on preventing risks and consolidating a new cornerstone for development; Make clear 10 major tasks and 12 priority actions for the construction of digital China during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, accelerate the process of digitalization, networking and intelligentization of economy and society, and start a new journey of informatization development in China.
(B) Digital China has made great achievements.
All regions and departments have resolutely implemented the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, worked hard, pioneered and innovated, and promoted historic achievements and changes in the construction of digital China.In the past five years, some core technological innovations in the information field have made breakthroughs.Basic general technologies such as integrated circuits and operating systems have been accelerated to catch up, research on cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and Internet of Things has been accelerated, and major breakthroughs have been made in quantum communication and high-performance computing.In the past five years, the new generation of information infrastructure has achieved leap-forward development.On the basis of 2G follow-up, 3G breakthrough and 4G catch-up, mobile communication is expected to achieve 5G lead, build the world’s largest fixed optical fiber network and 4G network, accelerate the deployment of IPv6 scale, and accelerate the construction of an integrated information network between heaven and earth.In the past five years, the digital economy has expanded new space for economic development.The "internet plus" campaign has been further promoted, new technologies, new formats and new models have emerged, and the sharing economy has flourished. The scale of online retail and mobile payment transactions ranks first in the world, and the scale of digital economy ranks second in the world. The deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy has effectively promoted the transformation and upgrading of the real economy such as manufacturing, improved quality and efficiency, and promoted supply-side structural reform.In the past five years, integration of defense and civilian technologies’s development has been deepened.The network power and the information power were designed and promoted as a whole, and a number of major tasks were implemented, and a number of major projects related to the overall situation and long-term accelerated research and deployment. The core technology, industrial development and navigation positioning accuracy of Beidou satellite navigation system have been greatly improved.In the past five years, the people’s sense of gain has been significantly enhanced.The number of netizens in China has reached 772 million, and the efforts to speed up and reduce the cost of the network have continued to increase. The people can use the network and information services that are affordable and well used. "Internet+government services" allows information to run more, people to run less errands, and continuously optimize the business environment. Network poverty alleviation has accelerated the bridging of the digital divide and continuously enhanced the endogenous motivation of self-development of poor areas and poor people.In the past five years, China has played a more active role in promoting the development of the global Internet.The world internet conference has been successfully held for four consecutive years, and the "four principles" and "five propositions" put forward by the Supreme Leader General Secretary, especially the network sovereignty and the community of cyberspace destiny, have increasingly become the broad consensus of the international community. Initiate the G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative and the Belt and Road Digital Economy International Cooperation Initiative, promote the construction and sharing of the Digital Silk Road, welcome all countries in the world to take the express train of digital economy development in China, and provide China experience and China plan for global Internet development.
(C) Digital China development indicators to achieve both speed and quality improvement.
After the issuance of the Outline of National Informatization Development Strategy and the Thirteenth Five-Year National Informatization Plan, the National Internet Information Office, together with relevant departments, implemented 74 key tasks in detail, defined work objectives, schedule and assessment indicators, and solidly promoted the implementation of major tasks and key projects. By the end of 2017, the number of domestic information technology invention patents granted, the ratio of optical fiber users to broadband users, the penetration rate of fixed broadband households, and the broadband network coverage rate of poor villages determined in the "Thirteenth Five-Year National Informatization Plan" have been completed ahead of schedule.On the whole, the construction and development of digital China has achieved remarkable results, and the main indicators of informatization development in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" have been completed well, and the progress of major tasks and key projects is in line with expectations.
-Information technology and industry.In 2017, the scale of the information industry maintained steady and rapid growth, and the electronic information manufacturing industry above designated size increased by 13.8% year-on-year. The output of major electronic information products such as mobile phones, microcomputers, network communication equipment and color TVs ranked first in the world, and the electronic information manufacturing industry accelerated its transformation and upgrading. The software and information technology service industry continued to show a steady and good operation trend, with revenue and benefits accelerating simultaneously. In 2017, the revenue was 5.5 trillion yuan, up 13.9% year-on-year, and the total profit was 702 billion yuan, up 15.8% year-on-year. The ability of technological innovation has been greatly improved, and the number of patents granted for information technology inventions has reached 167,000, exceeding the planned target of 2020. The telecommunications industry maintained rapid development, with the total telecommunications business reaching 2,755.7 billion yuan, up 76.4% year-on-year.
-Information infrastructure.The popularization of broadband networks continued to advance, and the network speed-up effect was obvious. In 2017, the number of fixed broadband access users of the three basic telecommunications enterprises reached 348.54 million, a net increase of 51.33 million in the whole year; The total number of 4G users reached 997 million, with a net increase of 227 million. The penetration rate of fixed broadband households reached the 2020 target ahead of schedule. The proportion of high-speed broadband users has increased significantly, with 135 million fixed Internet broadband access users with access rates of 100Mbps and above, accounting for 38.9% of the total users, accounting for an increase of 22.4 percentage points over the previous year. The universal service of telecommunications has been further promoted, and the network coverage project for poverty alleviation has achieved remarkable results. The number of rural broadband users nationwide has reached 93.77 million, up 25.8% year-on-year. The coverage rate of broadband networks in poor villages has achieved the goal of 2020 ahead of schedule.
-digital economy.The sharing economy and information consumption have flourished, new products, services and formats have emerged in large numbers, and the consumption structure of residents has been continuously upgraded. In 2017, the scale of information consumption reached 4.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.4%. E-commerce has maintained rapid development and become an important engine to stimulate consumer demand and develop modern service industry. Online retail sales reached 7,175.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.2%. The level of integration of informatization and industrialization has been further improved, and significant progress has been made in digitalization, networking and intelligence of key industries, with the numerical control rate of key processes reaching 46.4%.
-Information services.The level of social informatization continued to improve, and information benefited the people, facilitated the people and developed in depth. In 2017, the number of netizens in China reached 772 million, an increase of 40.74 million compared with 2016. The number of social security card holders nationwide reached 1.088 billion. The proportion of electronic litigation increased by 3 percentage points year on year. E-government promotes more convenient and equal public services.
Table 1 Completion progress of main indicators of informatization development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period
Second, the key projects of major tasks in Digital China have been solidly promoted
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, around the construction of digital China, all regions and departments have made great efforts to improve the national informatization development capability supported by the information infrastructure system, led by the information technology industry ecosystem and centered on the data resource system, made great efforts to improve the application level of informatization in key areas such as driving economic transformation and upgrading, promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, promoting information benefiting the people, and promoting the deep integration of military and civilian development, and made great efforts to optimize the development environment supporting the global development of online information enterprises, cyberspace governance, network security and so on, and accelerate the promotion.
(A) the independent innovation capability of core technologies has been significantly enhanced.
The core technology is the heavy weapon of the country. If we want to master the initiative of Internet development and ensure Internet security and national security, we must break through the difficult problem of core technology and strive to achieve "overtaking in corners" in some fields and aspects. The relevant state departments have accelerated the implementation of the core technology transcendence project and continuously enhanced their independent innovation capabilities. The 13th Five-Year Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Information Field was issued, and the implementation plan of "Scientific and Technological Innovation 2030- Major Projects" was formulated. Major projects of a new generation of artificial intelligence were launched and implemented, and major projects such as the information network integrating heaven and earth and big data were steadily promoted, and key projects such as the Internet of Things and smart cities, broadband communication and new networks were launched. Accelerate the implementation of the "National Integrated Circuit Industry Development Promotion Program" and promote the innovation project of the information industry system. The core technological innovation in the information field presents a new situation in which the catch-up is accelerated, the parallel operation is increasing, and the leading is emerging.
Major breakthroughs have been made in basic technology and general technology.Integrated circuits have achieved mass production in 28 nm process, and the chip design level has moved towards 10 nm. Successfully developed more than 30 kinds of high-end equipment such as 14 nm etcher and thin film deposition, and hundreds of material products such as target and polishing solution to fill the gap in the industrial chain. "Shenwei Taihu Light" equipped with "China Core"-Shenwei 26010 processor ranks first among the top 500 supercomputers in the world.Cutting-edge technologies and disruptive technologies have been accelerated.The first hard X-ray space exploration satellite "Huiyan" was successfully launched, the quantum satellite "Mozi" successfully achieved its predetermined scientific goal, and the quantum secure communication "Beijing-Shanghai trunk line" was successfully connected. 5G R&D is expected to enter the world’s leading echelon, the first batch of specifications for the third phase of the trial will be released, and technical standards such as 5G network architecture will become international standards. The research and development capability of artificial intelligence has been significantly improved.The innovation ability of information technology has been significantly enhanced.In 2017, China’s innovation index rose to 22nd place in the global ranking, and it was the only middle-income country that entered the top 25, ranking among the global innovation leaders. In 2016, China applied for 43,100 international patents in the field of information technology, ranking third in the world.
Figure 1 Comparison of the number of international patent applications in the field of information technology in major countries
Source: National Research Center for Industrial Information Security Development.
(2) The information infrastructure has been comprehensively upgraded.
Information infrastructure is the "artery" of economic and social development. The Internet has become a new space for people to study, work and live, and a new platform for people to obtain public services. The relevant departments of the state have implemented the strategy of "Broadband China" in depth, promoted the construction of land, sea, air and space integrated information infrastructure, made overall plans for the application of infrastructure construction and the allocation of spectrum resources, implemented the national new-generation information infrastructure construction project and the broadband upgrading project in rural and remote areas, accelerated the establishment of a ubiquitous advanced information infrastructure system, and basically built a modern information infrastructure with the best performance and the largest scale in the world.
Speed up the construction of high-speed broadband networks.In 2017, the number of Internet broadband access ports reached 779 million, and the penetration rate of fixed broadband households reached 72%. The construction of optical network cities has entered the fast lane, with 293.92 million optical fiber broadband access users, and broadband users above 50Mbps account for more than 70% of the total users nationwide, and some areas have begun to provide gigabit broadband services. The total number of mobile broadband users reached 1.13 billion, the mobile Internet access traffic was 24.6 billion GB, up 162.7% year-on-year, and the scale of 4G users exceeded 1 billion. The comprehensive population coverage of national radio programs is 98.71%, and there are 220 million cable TV users, including 198 million cable digital TV users, more than 89 million cable digital HD users and 129 million national direct broadcast satellite users.The process of air and space integration has been accelerated.In April 2017, China’s first Qualcomm mass communication satellite, Shijian 13, was successfully launched and delivered in January 2018. During the on-orbit test, the first international high-speed laser two-way communication test between high-orbit satellites and the ground was successfully carried out. There are 18 civil (commercial) communication satellites in orbit in China. In the past five years, 10 national backbone cities have been added, and the domestic internet bandwidth has increased by an average of 42% annually. International optical cables reach more than 30 countries and regions, and the international export bandwidth of the network is 7320180Mbps.Network coverage in rural and remote areas has improved rapidly.The universal service of telecommunications has been further promoted. In 2017, the deployment of optical fibers in 32,000 administrative villages was completed, and the proportion of optical fibers in administrative villages nationwide exceeded 95%. Rural netizens accounted for 27% of netizens, with a scale of 209 million, and the rural Internet penetration rate rose to 35.4%. The coverage rate of broadband network in poor villages exceeds 90%, and the target set in the 13 th Five-Year Plan has been completed ahead of schedule.Network speed-up and fee reduction continued to advance.In the third quarter of 2017, the weighted average download rate of fixed broadband users in China was 16.4Mbit/s, a year-on-year increase of 48.7%. The average tariff per unit bandwidth of fixed broadband and the average tariff of mobile traffic decreased by 15.37% and 35.50% respectively compared with 2016. Cancel all domestic long-distance and roaming charges for mobile phones.
Figure 2 Speed-up and fee reduction of fixed broadband and mobile data in China from 2014 to 2017
Source: Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
(3) The development and application of big data have been accelerated.
Data resources are increasingly becoming an important factor of production and social wealth, and the amount of information mastered has become an important symbol of a country’s soft power and competitiveness. At the national level, the Action Plan for Promoting the Development of Big Data, Several Opinions on Promoting the Opening of Public Information Resources, and the Development Plan of Big Data Industry (2016-2020) have been successively issued to strengthen the planning and construction of data resources, accelerate the improvement of digital infrastructure, promote the integration and sharing of data resources, and promote the innovation and development of big data technology industry. Relevant state departments have accelerated the construction, effective integration and safe utilization of data resources in key areas, and continuously improved the online sharing and service capabilities of data resources.
The overall planning and construction of the national data resource system was accelerated.Promote the establishment and improvement of a basic data system and accelerate the construction of a unified, efficient, interconnected, safe and reliable national data resource system.The open application mechanism of data resource sharing has been gradually improved.Accelerate the construction of a data sharing platform with nationwide coverage, overall utilization and unified access, promote the construction of national big data development projects, and basically build basic databases such as population, legal persons, natural resources, geographical space and macroeconomics. The national population basic information database has passed the acceptance and provided services to the national government departments. Accelerate the integration and sharing of academic resources in the field of philosophy and social sciences. The National Literature Center of Philosophy and Social Sciences has integrated more than 16 million academic information resources of philosophy and social sciences, with more than 9.3 million online academic papers and accumulated downloads of more than 10 million. Accelerate the improvement of the scientific big data resource system and the construction of public service cloud platform. Public security organs across the country have fully implemented the big data strategy, realized cross-regional, cross-departmental and cross-police information sharing, upgraded information processing from single aggregation to multiple services, promoted a major breakthrough in the new mechanism to combat crime, and comprehensively improved the detection rate by using information technology, greatly shortening the detection cycle of homicide cases and significantly reducing the overall detection cost.The security of big data is gradually unfolding.The "Network Security Law" was promulgated and implemented, and the overall requirements for ensuring data security were clearly defined. We will step up the formulation of the Regulations on the Security Protection of Key Information Infrastructure, strengthen the security protection of key information infrastructure and big data, and relevant departments will strengthen joint rectification of illegal data transactions.Innovation and development of big data technology industry.According to the calculation of relevant institutions, the scale of China’s big data core industry in 2017 was 23.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 39%. Big data applications are expanding from Internet, telecommunications, finance, transportation, medical care and other fields to traditional fields. China’s large Internet enterprises are among the top in the world in terms of mass data collection, storage and processing.
Figure 3 Scale of China’s Big Data Core Industry
Source: China Information and Communication Research Institute.
(D) The digital economy is booming.
At present, the world economy is accelerating the transformation to economic activities with the network information technology industry as the important content. To adapt to the new normal of leading economic development, the State Council issued Guiding Opinions on Further Expanding and Upgrading Information Consumption and Releasing the Potential of Domestic Demand, Guiding Opinions on Actively Promoting "internet plus" Action and Made in China 2025. Relevant state departments jointly studied and formulated the Strategic Outline for the Development of Digital Economy, and formulated and implemented the Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development of Sharing Economy to vigorously promote the healthy development of digital economy and sharing economy. We will accelerate the implementation of special actions such as e-commerce, "Advanced Manufacturing Industry in internet plus", "Modern Agriculture in internet plus" and "Convenient Transportation in internet plus" to promote the integrated development of digital economy and real economy.
In terms of digital industrialization, new technologies, new industries, new formats and new models are constantly emerging.In 2017, the scale of China’s digital economy reached 27.2 trillion yuan, up 20.3% year-on-year, accounting for 32.9% of GDP, which has become an important driving engine for economic transformation and upgrading. The electronic information manufacturing industry, software and information service industry, and communication industry continued to develop rapidly. In 2017, the revenue scale of the information industry reached 22.1 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%. The output of smart TVs was 96.66 million, an increase of 3.8%. The output of industrial robots was 130,000 sets, an increase of 81.0%. The output of civil drones was 2.9 million, an increase of 67.0%. Software business revenue was 5.5 trillion yuan, up 13.9% year-on-year. In 2017, the scale of information consumption in China increased to 4.5 trillion yuan, up 15.4% year-on-year, which was about twice the growth rate of final consumption in the same period, accounting for 10% of final consumption and contributing more than 0.4 percentage points to GDP growth. Mobile payment has gradually realized full-scene consumption, and the scale of mobile payment transactions has exceeded 200 trillion yuan, ranking first in the world. The overall strength and global competitiveness of China’s online information enterprises have been continuously improved, and the market value of seven Internet companies ranks among the top 20 in the world.
In terms of industrial digitalization, informatization has become an important power engine to promote the quality change, efficiency change and power change of economic development and improve the total factor productivity.In-depth implementation of the "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Integrated Development of Manufacturing Industry and Internet" and "Guiding Opinions on Deepening the Advanced Manufacturing Industry in internet plus to Develop Industrial Internet" will promote the in-depth integrated development of manufacturing industry and Internet, and the characteristics of software definition, data-driven, platform support, service value-added and intelligent leadership will become increasingly obvious. The development level of integration of industrialization and informatization has increased from 50.7 in 2016 to 51.8 in 2017. The penetration rate of digital R&D design tools for industrial enterprises above designated size has reached 63.3%, and the numerical control rate of key processes has reached 46.4%. With the rapid development of industrial internet, a number of new industrial apps for complex products such as high-speed rail and wind power have been formed and initially commercialized. The intelligent manufacturing project has been implemented in depth, and 428 intelligent manufacturing projects have been carried out. The innovation drive has been continuously enhanced. 120 "double-innovation" demonstration bases have been built in two batches across the country. The penetration rate of "double-innovation" platforms for key manufacturing enterprises has reached 70%, and new modes and formats such as networked collaborative manufacturing, personalized customization and service-oriented manufacturing have continued to emerge. The pace of informatization in agriculture and rural areas has been significantly accelerated. The project of information entering villages and households has been fully implemented, and demonstrations of information entering villages and households have been carried out in 10 provinces and cities throughout the province. A total of 169,000 agricultural information societies have been built and operated nationwide, and 233 million people have been provided with convenience services. Create a number of digital agriculture demonstration models, and constantly improve the level of agricultural production intelligence, network management and online service. The 13th Five-Year Development Plan for E-commerce was implemented, and e-commerce was upgraded.In 2017, China’s online retail sales reached 7,175.1 billion, up 32.2% year-on-year, and cross-border electronic commerce increased by more than 30% year-on-year. Rural e-commerce has developed rapidly, and the online retail sales in rural areas nationwide reached 1.24 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 39.1%. In 2017, the transaction volume of the sharing economy market was about 4.9 trillion yuan, an increase of 47.2% over the previous year. Accelerate the "convenient transportation in internet plus" and develop intelligent transportation to facilitate passengers’ travel. Build and improve the national public information platform for transportation logistics, promote logistics information sharing, and promote logistics cost reduction and efficiency improvement. In 2017, the national express delivery business totaled 40.06 billion pieces, an increase of 28%, ranking first in the world for four consecutive years.
Figure 4 G20 Digital Economy Scale in 2015-2016
Source: China Information and Communication Research Institute.
(E) E-government has been further promoted.
The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that it is necessary to deeply understand the role of the Internet in national management and social governance, and use information technology to better perceive the social situation, smooth communication channels, and assist decision-making. At the national level, the "National E-government Overall Plan" was promulgated, the national e-government overall coordination mechanism was established, the national e-government comprehensive pilot was organized, the application of e-government was continuously deepened, and the development experience of e-government that can be used for reference and promotion was explored to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.
"internet plus Party Building" serves the Party’s construction.In October 2017, the national party member Management Information System was launched, which provided an open information window for party member and built an integrated working platform for party organizations and departments at all levels. The upgrading of party member’s educational resource database continued to advance, with more than 20,000 websites of Party building established nationwide, 1,900 educational TV columns (channels) in party member and 6,900 educational mobile newspapers in party member. The National party member Modern Distance Education Network for Cadres has completed the revision and upgrading of the central platform, local platforms and more than 700,000 rural terminal sites, with more than 8.3 million registered users, making it the flagship platform for education in party member. Relying on the internet to strengthen the construction of the party’s youth mass work position.E-government improves the modernization level of governance.The General Office of the State Council issued the Implementation Plan for the Integration and Sharing of Government Information Systems to accelerate the integration and sharing of government information systems, promote network communication, data communication and business communication, and continuously extend e-government services to grass-roots governments. We will build a centralized accounting data system of the central bank and a statistical platform for the financial industry, speed up the development of e-government on currency, gold and silver, and better serve macro-control and prevent and resolve financial risks. The national 12315 Internet platform was put into operation, and the integration of market supervision information was steadily advanced.Outstanding achievements have been made in the construction of "smart courts".All 3,525 courts across the country have made the trial process, trial activities, judgment documents and execution information public, with more than 41.23 million judgment documents made public and the number of visits exceeded 12.4 billion. The world’s first Internet court was unveiled in Hangzhou, and 100% of the cases were heard online. The average court session took only 25 minutes and the average trial period was 32 days, which built a new space for online rule of law. 55% of the courts in China have filed cases online, and people’s courts have begun to step into the stage of electronic litigation.The construction of electronic inspection project has achieved remarkable results.buildIt has become a "six platforms" for judicial handling, inspection office, team management, procuratorial support, inspection decision support, procuratorial publicity and service of the four-level inspection organs nationwide, and all cases are handled online. "the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s Opinions on Deepening the Construction of Intelligent Procuratorial Work" was issued and implemented, and the intelligent procuratorial work made great strides.New media for government affairs are developing vigorously.Party and government organs and mass organizations at all levels actively use Weibo, WeChat, client and other "two micro-ends" new media to release government affairs (party affairs) information, respond to social concerns, provide convenience services and promote collaborative governance, which has become an effective platform for building online and offline concentric circles and practicing the party’s mass line. Party and government organs at all levels have opened more than 510,000 government WeChat accounts in Tencent and more than 134,000 government Weibo accounts in Sina.Informatization innovates social governance model.Twenty-one provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have basically completed the construction and put into use of the comprehensive platform for comprehensive management information, and the comprehensive management video networking system has covered all provinces, 333 prefecture-level cities, 2,795 counties, 13,472 townships (streets) and other grassroots units. The public security organs have accelerated the application of new technologies, and constantly improved their capabilities and levels in prevention and control, mass service, and social governance. Remarkable achievements have been made in the construction of social credit system. The national credit information sharing platform has been connected to 39 ministries and commissions and all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and the total amount of various credit information has exceeded 6.5 billion. The inter-departmental joint punishment for dishonesty and joint incentive mechanism for trustworthiness have been improved.
(VI) Information benefits the people and convenience services are accelerated.
In order to develop the network information business, we must implement the people-centered development thought. It is necessary to adapt to the people’s expectations and needs, speed up the popularization of information services, reduce the application cost, and provide useful, affordable and well-used information services for the people. All regions and departments regard informatization as an important means to protect and improve people’s livelihood, and vigorously develop information services such as online education, telemedicine, online culture, "internet plus Public Legal Service" and "internet plus Public Security", so that people can gain more sense in sharing the fruits of Internet development.
"Internet+Education" expands the coverage of quality education resources.Significant progress has been made in the construction and application of "three links and two platforms", the level of educational informatization has been significantly improved, and the promotion mechanism of the whole society’s participation has been continuously improved. By the end of 2017, the Internet access rate of primary and secondary schools nationwide reached 90%, 3.6 times that of five years ago, and the proportion of multimedia classrooms reached 87%, which doubled. As of June 2017, the number of online education users reached 144 million, and the online education utilization rate reached 19.2%.The direct settlement of basic medical insurance for medical treatment in different places has been steadily advanced.A nationwide remote medical treatment system has been established, and all 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps are connected to the system, basically realizing the direct settlement of hospitalization expenses for cross-provincial remote medical treatment, and reducing the pressure of "running errands" and "paying for funds" for patients.The application of Huimin has accelerated its popularization.The national traffic card interconnection work has been promoted rapidly, with a total of 11 million cards issued, and the interconnection of 180 cities above prefecture-level cities has been completed. Build and improve the "12348 China Law Network" (public legal service network platform), use modern information technology to enhance the effectiveness of village legal consultants, and expand and optimize the supply of legal services. Actively promote the "internet plus Public Security" model, build a public security "Internet+government service" platform, improve service efficiency and extend service tentacles.Social security services have been continuously expanded.The number of social security card holders exceeds 1 billion, covering 99.7% of all provinces in China. It fully supports direct settlement of medical cards across provinces and places, and is widely used in employment registration, medical insurance settlement, pension payment, talent service and other social fields. In many areas, we have expanded the application of residents’ health, civil assistance, financial subsidies and other government public services, and initially established a collaborative sharing mechanism for information on old-age services and community services.
Figure 5 Coverage of Social Security Cards by Province in 2017
Source: Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
(7) The deep integration of network information and military and civilian development has made solid progress.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that online information integration of defense and civilian technologies is the key field and frontier field in integration of defense and civilian technologies, and it is also the most dynamic and potential field in integration of defense and civilian technologies. We should seize the historical opportunity of the current information technology revolution and the new military revolution, deeply understand the internal relationship between productivity and combat effectiveness, market and battlefield, grasp the working mechanism and laws of integration of defense and civilian technologies, and promote the formation of a pattern of all-factor, multi-field and high-efficiency deep integration of military and civilian development. In accordance with the central government’s strategic plan to promote the network power and integration of defense and civilian technologies, the relevant military and civilian departments have established and improved the working mechanism, improved the working system of the network letter integration of defense and civilian technologies, made overall plans to promote the in-depth development of the network letter integration of defense and civilian technologies, accelerated the cooperation between integration of defense and civilian technologies and the military in the network letter field, and strived to make the army serve the people and the people prepare for the army.
The development of Netcom integration of defense and civilian technologies has been intensified.Issued and implemented the "Opinions on the Integrated Development of Economic Construction and National Defense Construction" and related plans, and the relevant military and civilian departments paid close attention to demonstrating and implementing a number of major demonstration projects in integration of defense and civilian technologies that have a bearing on the overall situation and long-term.The two-way transformation of military-civilian technology was accelerated.We will promote the joint construction and management of state key laboratories jointly built by the military and civilians, and strengthen the research and development of dual-use technologies for military and civilian use. The Catalogue of Intellectual Property Transformation of National Defense Science and Technology Industry (the third batch) released 400 pieces of information about intellectual property rights of national defense science and technology industry, which promoted the transformation and application of intellectual property rights of national defense science and technology industry. We implemented the "Military-civilian Standards Generalization Project", selected more than 100 military-civilian general national standards formulation projects, and issued 41 military-civilian general national standards formulation plans around key areas such as semiconductor integrated circuits and Beidou satellite navigation.The joint construction and sharing of information infrastructure and basic resources have been solidly promoted.Accelerate the application of high-scoring satellites, basically form a high-scoring data system covering different spatial resolutions, different coverage widths, different spectral bands and different revisit periods, deploy and implement 20 industry application demonstrations and 30 provincial industrialization demonstrations, and accelerate the construction of commercial satellite remote sensing systems. Issued the "Special Plan for Beidou System Application in Transportation Industry" to promote the implementation of a model project. Beidou’s application and industrialization have initially formed a complete industrial chain. The cumulative sales volume of Beidou chips has exceeded 50 million pieces, and high-precision OEM boards and receiver antennas have accounted for 30% and 90% of the domestic market share respectively.
Figure 6 Industry Distribution of Private Enterprises Joining the Army
Source: National Internet Information Office.
(VIII) International cooperation in the digital economy has yielded fruitful results.
General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that all countries should promote open cooperation in the Internet field, enrich the connotation of openness, improve the level of openness, build more communication and cooperation platforms, create more points of convergence of interests, growth points of cooperation, and win-win new highlights, promote mutual complementarity and common development in cyberspace, and allow more countries and people to take the express train in the information age and share the fruits of Internet development. Relevant state departments focus on the implementation of the "Belt and Road" cooperation initiative, strive to establish an open and win-win digital economic cooperation system, encourage and support online information enterprises to go global, and promote international information exchanges and cooperation.
International cooperation in digital economy has become a new bright spot.China initiated the G20 Digital Economy Development and Cooperation Initiative and the Belt and Road Digital Economy International Cooperation Initiative, actively promoted the negotiation of nearly 20 free trade agreements such as regional comprehensive economic partnership, deepened practical cooperation in cyberspace, and promoted the joint construction and sharing of the Digital Silk Road.The service system for enterprises to go global has been continuously improved.Further broaden the channels for overseas enterprises to obtain information services and strengthen the release of safety early warning information. The "Belt and Road" big data service system has basically taken shape, actively providing effective information and services to relevant enterprises, organizations and individuals involved in the "Belt and Road" construction. The central enterprises concerned should build a comprehensive service platform in cross-border electronic commerce to provide enterprises with online one-stop services such as investment, construction and procurement of overseas projects.Network letter enterprises go out and make breakthroughs.Accelerate the promotion of cross-border e-commerce, bike-sharing and mobile payment to provide services for global users, and information and communication enterprises actively participate in the construction of information infrastructure in more than 170 countries. The number of users of the global AliExpress platform exceeded 100 million. Bike-sharing business has been popularized and applied in 21 countries and regions around the world.
(9) The comprehensive management of cyberspace has been significantly enhanced.
Cyberspace is the spiritual home of hundreds of millions of people. Cyberspace is clear and ecological, which is in line with the interests of the people. Relevant state departments have accelerated the revision of the Measures for the Administration of Internet Information Services, issued the Regulations on the Administration of Internet News Information Services, formulated a series of normative documents on Internet information services, strengthened the management of basic Internet resources, strengthened the construction of Internet content, accelerated the establishment of a comprehensive network governance system, and created a clear cyberspace.
The management of Internet basic resources has been further strengthened.The real-name rate of telephone users has reached 100%, and the protection of users’ personal information has increased. We issued and implemented the Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Unregistered Websites and the Notice on Further Regulating the Domestic Domain Name Registration Service Market, and launched a special campaign for the management of Internet basic resources. The accuracy rate of website registration subject information exceeded 93%.Strengthen the positive publicity of cyberspace.Accelerate the construction of key news websites, solidly carry out the construction of network civilization, issue and implement the Trial Measures for Social Benefit Evaluation of Online Literature Publishing Service Units, carry out the construction of online publishing supervision system (Phase II), promote the dissemination of excellent online content, and actively cultivate a positive and healthy online culture.Strengthen cyberspace governance according to law.Strengthen departmental cooperation, actively use new technologies and applications, improve the ability to deal with and guide, clean up harmful information in time, and create a clean cyberspace for the majority of netizens, especially teenagers. Severely crack down on online telecom fraud in accordance with the law. In the first half of 2017 alone, 76,000 related cases were cracked, and losses of 7.58 billion yuan were recovered for the masses. In 2017, the number of fraudulent phone calls and text messages decreased by more than three quarters year-on-year.Vigorously promote "voluntary service in internet plus".Promote the universal establishment of volunteer service information systems in various places, and gradually realize the interconnection, co-construction and sharing of basic data of national volunteer service. There are more than 79 million registered volunteers in the information system, more than 420,000 registered volunteer service organizations, more than 1.05 million volunteer service projects, and more than 810 million hours of volunteer service have been recorded.Deeply participate in international governance of cyberspace.China actively participates in the cyberspace governance process of international organizations such as the United Nations and bilateral and multilateral forums, and conducts exchanges and dialogues with the United States, the European Union, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN and other online information fields. Accelerate the "CNCERT International Partner" program and actively participate in the formulation of standards by international organizations such as ITU. We have established a cooperation mechanism for cyber security law enforcement with more than 70 countries and regions to promote bilateral and multilateral exchanges and cooperation.
(10) The network security guarantee system has been continuously consolidated.
Network security and informatization complement each other, security is the premise of development, and development is the guarantee of security. The promulgation and implementation of the Network Security Law has established the first basic, framework and comprehensive law in the field of network security in China. The publication of the National Cyberspace Security Strategy clearly declares and clarifies China’s major positions and propositions on cybersecurity to the world system. Relevant state departments should strengthen policy coordination and work coordination, and establish and improve the network security system.
Establish and improve the network security policy system.All relevant departments have accelerated the formulation and improvement of the supporting regulatory documents of the Cyber Security Law, basically established the cyber security review system, and promulgated the Measures for the Security Review of Network Products and Services (Trial), the National Emergency Plan for Cyber Security Incidents, and the Measures for the Monitoring and Disposal of Cyber Security Threats on the Public Internet, and accelerated the formulation of the Regulations on the Security Protection of Key Information Infrastructure and the Regulations on the Protection of Cyber Security Levels. The standardization of network security has been accelerated, and a number of important national standards such as "Information Security Technology Personal Information Security Specification" have been issued.Strengthen the training of network security talents.Issued and implemented the "Administrative Measures for the Construction Demonstration Project of First-class Cyber Security College", and seven universities became the first batch of first-class cyber security college construction demonstration projects. Thirty-five colleges and universities have been awarded the first-class doctoral degree in cyberspace security, and the pace of training cyber security talents has been accelerating. Actively promote the construction of national cyber security talents and innovation bases.Strengthen the research and development of network security technology and supervision and security.Efforts should be made to break through the key technologies of network security, and new technologies should be laid out in advance to realize the security and reliability of network core technologies, key infrastructure and information systems and data in important fields. The public security organs organized law enforcement inspection and technical inspection of network security for more than 27,000 units, rectified and eliminated a large number of network security loopholes, and successfully completed a series of network security work for large-scale activities.
Figure 7 Comparison of the number of IP addresses of Trojan and Bot control servers in 2012-2016
Source: CNCERT
Third, the priority action of digital China has continuously enhanced the people’s sense of gain
People’s yearning for a better life is the priority direction of the construction of digital China. In the past five years, all regions and departments have focused on filling shortcomings and layout frontiers. Promote the implementation of 12 priority actions, including the advanced deployment of new generation information network technology, Beidou system construction and application, application infrastructure construction, data resource sharing and opening up, "Internet+government service", beautiful China informatization special action, network poverty alleviation action, new smart city construction action, online Silk Road construction action, network culture prosperity action, online education inclusive action, and healthy China information service action. Accelerate the construction of modern infrastructure, effectively help the rural population get rid of poverty, promote the development of social undertakings, strengthen the protection of the ecological environment, and constantly enhance the people’s sense of acquisition, happiness and security.
(A) the advanced deployment of the new generation of information network technology
Important breakthroughs have been made in the research, development, testing and verification of 5G network technology.The "New Generation Broadband Wireless Mobile Communication Network" is a major national science and technology project. At present, the design and development of 3G SPS 12-bit ADC/DAC, PA, wide-area hotspot baseband chip and low-latency baseband chip have been realized, and the research and development of key technologies such as 5G core network and ultra-dense networking based on SDN/NFV are constantly advancing. The rapid development and testing of 5G, and the release of the first batch of specifications in the third phase of the trial, are promoting the formation of a global unified 5G standard.The carrying capacity and access capacity of radio and television networks have been improved.Promote the two-way entry of radio and television and telecommunications services nationwide. Accelerate the pilot project of the second phase of the radio and television cable and wireless satellite convergence network, and approve the technical scheme and three standards for the convergence network test in 11 provinces. The number of IPTV users in China has reached 122 million.The overall evolution and upgrading of IPv6 is accelerated.Issue and implement the Action Plan for Promoting the Scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) to accelerate the construction of the next generation Internet with high speed, wide popularization, full coverage and intelligence. The number of IPv6 addresses in China is 23,430 /32, up 10.6% year-on-year.
Figure 8 Changes in the number of IPv6 addresses in China from 2013 to 2017
Source: CNNIC
(2) Significant progress has been made in the construction and application of Beidou system.
Make overall plans to further improve the working mechanism of Beidou construction and application.The relevant departments of the military and land jointly study and formulate policies and measures to promote the construction and application of Beidou system, and steadily promote the construction, development and application of Beidou system to promote the new development of Beidou.The independent innovation capability of core technologies has been significantly enhanced.Beidou-3 has made a breakthrough in the core technology of important components such as on-board atomic clock, high-power amplifier and channel switch, and developed a sky stability of 10.-14On-board atomic clock of the order of magnitude.Beidou industrialization has been accelerated.It has formed a complete industrial chain consisting of chip modules, application terminals and operation services. Beidou is integrated with the Internet, cloud computing and big data to build a high-precision spatio-temporal information cloud service platform, and launch the world’s first accelerated auxiliary positioning system supporting Beidou. The service covers more than 200 countries and regions, with more than 100 million users and 200 million daily services. The National Beidou Precision Service Network has entered more than 400 cities across the country and is widely used in urban gas, urban heating, power grid, water supply and drainage, intelligent transportation, intelligent old-age care and other fields.Accelerate the expansion of the international market.Beidou products have begun to provide services to countries along and around the Belt and Road, such as transportation and port management in Pakistan, land planning and river transportation supervision in Myanmar, precision agriculture and pest disaster supervision in Laos, and integrated application at sea in Indonesia. The construction of Beidou-3 system was accelerated. In November 2017, January and February 2018, six networking satellites were launched with "one arrow and two stars" for three consecutive times, which opened a new journey of global networking of Beidou satellite navigation system.
Figure 9 Cumulative number of satellites launched by the four major global satellite navigation systems from 2013 to 2017
Source: National Internet Information Office.
(3) The innovation capability of application infrastructure has been significantly enhanced.
The independent innovation capability and service capability of cloud computing have reached a new level.We issued and implemented the Opinions on Promoting the Innovation and Development of Cloud Computing and Cultivating the New Format of Information Industry and the Three-year Action Plan for Cloud Computing Development (2017-2019) to promote the popularization of cloud computing applications, optimize the layout of cloud computing data centers, improve the utilization rate and intensive level, and form an internationally competitive industrial system. Breakthroughs have been made in key technologies such as large-scale concurrent processing, massive data storage and energy saving in data centers, and internationally competitive cloud computing platforms such as Ali Feitian Platform, Baidu Brain and WeChat Open Technology Platform have emerged. In 2017, the scale of China’s public cloud market is expected to reach 24.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 44.7%.New breakthroughs have been made in the large-scale and intensive development of data centers.In 2016, the proportion of large and super-large data centers in China increased from less than 8% in 2010 to 25%. There are 295 enterprises with large data centers and trans-regional Internet data services.The pace of deep integration and extensive application of the Internet of Things has accelerated.The research, development and deployment of narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) technology are accelerating. China Telecom has built the world’s first commercial NB-IoT network with the widest coverage, and 310,000 base stations in the whole network have been upgraded simultaneously. The NB-IoT technical scheme proposed by Huawei was approved by 3GPP and became an international standard. NB-IoT accelerates the expansion to public facilities management, production and life, and accelerates the intelligent transformation of infrastructure such as power grid, railway and highway.
Figure 10 Market Scale of Cloud Computing in China from 2014 to 2017
Source: China Information and Communication Research Institute.
(4) The sharing and opening up of data resources has been steadily advanced.
A national information resource sharing system has taken shape.Formulate and implement the Interim Measures for the Management of Government Information Resources Sharing and the Guidelines for the Compilation of Government Information Resources Catalogue (for Trial Implementation). A unified data sharing and exchange platform was initially established, with the total number of data sharing and exchange reaching 12 billion. The national e-government extranet has connected 130 central units and 244,000 local units, carrying 13 national applications. The national population basic information database realizes the sharing of 13 basic information, and the national legal entity basic information database realizes the sharing of 9 basic information.The opening of public information resources in key areas was accelerated.Issued the "Pilot Work Plan for the Opening of Public Information Resources", and carried out pilot projects for the opening of public information resources in five provinces (cities) including Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guizhou. Vigorously promote the construction of four platforms, such as credit information sharing, online approval and supervision of investment projects, 12358 price supervision and public resource trading, and promote the sharing and opening up of information resources such as social credit and public resource trading. The open cloud platform of comprehensive transportation travel big data has accessed 112 original data, 26 service data and more than 7TB of open data from 25 transportation authorities and 41 enterprises. The national enterprise credit information publicity system realizes the unified collection and sharing of enterprise-related information among government departments, with a query volume of 16.98 billion person-times, which provides support for strengthening supervision during and after the event. The national food and drug supervision data sharing platform supports cross-departmental, cross-level and cross-regional information sharing and multi-departmental joint disciplinary incentives.Local governments actively explore new models.31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have issued policy documents related to the opening of public information resources. Fujian Province explores the construction and application of electronic license database, and basically realizes the "No.1 application" for enterprises to handle affairs.
Figure 11 Total number of effective data sets opened by some local open data platforms
Source: Digital and Mobile Governance Laboratory of Fudan University.
(E) "Internet+government services" to deepen the "streamline administration, delegate power, strengthen regulation and improve services" reform
Open government affairs and further standardize government services.In-depth implementation of the Guiding Opinions on Accelerating the Work of "Internet+Government Services", issuance of the Guide for the Construction of the Technical System of "Internet+Government Services" and the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Opinions on Promoting Government Affairs Openness in an All-round Way, formulation of the Pilot Work Plan for the Standardization of Grassroots Government Affairs Openness, and implementation of the pilot in 100 counties (cities, districts) in 15 provinces. By the end of June 2017, 71 departments and directly affiliated institutions in the State Council had opened government websites, and 92.9% of them had established information dissemination systems.An online and offline integrated government service platform has basically taken shape.By the end of December 2017, 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had all published the power list of provincial government departments, and the provincial online government service platform had published a total of 54,440 service guides, online handling and results inquiry services for government services, and launched 31 provincial online government service platforms. Implement the integration of online tax software of provincial tax authorities nationwide, and promote the docking of portal websites of provincial bureaus with government websites. Provincial-level industrial and commercial and market supervision departments throughout the country will build an electronic registration system for enterprises, issue electronic business licenses, and gradually realize that enterprises can apply for business licenses "without leaving home". The implementation of the registration system of "multiple certificates in one, one photo and one yard" will effectively promote information sharing and business collaboration between departments and reduce the institutional cost of enterprises. Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Fujian, Shanghai and other places rely on "Internet+government services" to break through departmental data barriers and innovate modes such as "running at most once" and "not meeting for approval", so that information can run more and people can run less errands.
Figure 12 "Internet+Government Services" continuously improves work efficiency.
Source: Office of Government Information and Government Affairs Openness, General Office of the State Council.
(VI) Informatization helps the construction of ecological civilization
The construction of ecological environment monitoring network has achieved remarkable results.An environmental air quality monitoring network consisting of automatic air monitoring stations, acid rain monitoring stations and sandstorm monitoring stations has been built and used. More than 350 monitoring centers at the Ministry, provincial and municipal levels have been built, and more than 130 automatic radiation environmental monitoring stations have been deployed in 96 prefecture-level and above cities, and more than 10,000 enterprises and 16,000 monitoring points have been automatically monitored, initially forming an innovative management model of data management, data service and data decision-making. The construction of the national marine ecological environment supervision and management system has been basically completed, and the national sea area dynamic monitoring and monitoring functions have been continuously enriched.The dynamic monitoring and supervision of natural resources have been continuously improved.The first national survey of geographical conditions was completed, and China’s geographical conditions were obtained comprehensively and accurately for the first time. The "One Map of National Land and Resources" has been completed and improved, and a land and mineral resources management information system covering the whole country and running through four levels has been formed. The construction of networked supervision information system has been steadily promoted, and the main links of land and mineral resources development and utilization in the whole country have been basically tracked and supervised regularly before, during and after the event. Accelerate the construction of information engineering for ecological environmental protection, and establish the information sharing mechanism for natural resources supervision. The information types and functions of "One Map of National Water Conservancy" have been further improved, and the effectiveness of water-related information integration has been continuously strengthened."internet plus" made a major breakthrough in smart energy.The construction of energy internet is in the forefront of the world. The length of UHV lines under construction in China has reached 35,000 kilometers, and the annual transmission power exceeds 400 billion kWh. We launched 55 "internet plus" smart energy pilot demonstration projects, initiated the establishment of a global energy Internet development cooperation organization, and proposed the Action Plan for Global Energy Internet to Implement the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
(7) The effectiveness of network poverty alleviation has been remarkable.
Coordinate and promote the network poverty alleviation action.We formulated and implemented the Network Poverty Alleviation Action Plan, and made overall plans to promote the construction of five major projects, namely, network coverage, rural e-commerce, network intelligence support, information service and network public welfare, and achieved remarkable results.Network coverage project speeds up bridging the "digital divide" in poverty-stricken areas.Universal telecommunications service was implemented in depth. In 2017, the third batch of pilot projects for universal telecommunications service was implemented, supporting 12,000 poor villages to connect optical fibers. The annual growth rate of fixed broadband household users in 832 key poverty alleviation and development counties and counties in contiguous poverty-stricken areas exceeds 20%, and the annual growth rate of mobile broadband users exceeds 30%. The proportion of broadband access in poverty-stricken villages with established files has exceeded 90%.The role of rural e-commerce projects in poverty alleviation is increasingly obvious.Promote the comprehensive demonstration of e-commerce in rural areas to lean towards poverty-stricken counties, and bring 499 state-level poverty-stricken counties into the scope of support, accounting for 60% of all poverty-stricken counties, which will drive the income of 2.74 million poor households who set up files and set up cards. The national platform of "Supply and Marketing E Home" opened a green channel for nearly 100 poverty-stricken counties in 18 provinces, and cultivated and built county-level e-commerce operation centers in 51 poverty-stricken counties in 14 provinces. "Mail Tesco" focuses on the "last mile" of e-commerce poverty alleviation. In 2017, there were 65,000 new sites nationwide.Network intellectual support project promotes the combination of poverty alleviation, ambition support and intellectual support.We will implement the full coverage project of digital education resources at teaching points to solve the problem that more than 4 million students in remote and poor areas have insufficient classes due to the lack of teachers. Relying on the Internet platform, we will extensively carry out resource docking and skills training to guide young people and women in poverty-stricken areas to innovate and start businesses.Information service engineering provides data support for finding the "poor root" and prescribing the right medicine.The function of the national poverty alleviation and development big data platform has been continuously improved, and the data exchange with the Disabled Persons’ Federation, housing construction, human society, education, civil affairs, public security and other departments has been gradually realized horizontally, and the data linkage with the poverty alleviation institutions in various provinces has been gradually realized vertically.Network public welfare projects guide social forces to participate extensively in poverty alleviation.Give full play to the role of social organizations and platforms such as China Internet Development Foundation and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, and actively guide a number of online information enterprises to carry out pairing assistance with poor counties.
Figure 13 Broadband Access in Poor Villages in China from 2013 to 2016
Source: National Internet Information Office.
(8) Promote the classification of new smart cities.
The new smart city promotion mechanism has been improved.Establish an inter-ministerial coordination working group for new smart cities, study and formulate the Opinions on Promoting the Construction of New Smart Cities by Classification, and issue the Inter-ministerial Coordination Working Group System for New Smart Cities and the Division of Tasks for 2016-2018 to strengthen the overall coordination of the construction of new smart cities, and guide and promote the development of smart cities at all levels in a standardized, orderly and efficient direction. Organize the evaluation of new smart cities in 220 cities, and form the "New Smart City Development Report 2017" to evaluate and promote improvement and evaluation and promote development.Urban information services have been further improved.Organize 80 cities to carry out pilot projects of information benefiting the people, and greatly improve the level of government public services. Actively promote the management of digital cities, and guide local integration to form a digital city management platform. The role of data-driven core engine in urban development has become increasingly prominent, and smart production, smart life, smart ecology and smart governance have developed in depth.Actively explore the sustainable development mechanism.All localities actively explore the PPP model, build a new smart city ecosystem that is inclusive, inclusive and diverse, and actively promote application services such as smart communities and smart old-age care.Actively participate in the formulation of international standards.China has become the initiator and core member of many international standardization organizations in the field of smart cities, and the results of the national standard "Smart City Technical Reference Model" provide important support for international standards.
(9) The initial formation of the online Silk Road.
Significant progress has been made in the interconnection of information infrastructure.34 cross-border land cables and a number of international submarine cables have been built with 12 countries along the Belt and Road, and the Memorandum of Understanding on Strengthening Cooperation in the Construction of the Online Silk Road and Promoting Information Interconnection has been signed with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and other countries. The service capacity of the "Belt and Road" spatial information corridor has basically taken shape, providing spatial information services for Chinese enterprises to go global and more than 30 countries and regions along the "Belt and Road".The information-based international hub project has been solidly promoted.China-Arab online Silk Road Economic Cooperation Experimental Zone and Ningxia Hub Project have been accelerated, and the construction of China-ASEAN information port has achieved initial results. The achievements of key projects such as China-ASEAN cross-border trade settlement platform and China-ASEAN new smart city collaborative innovation center have gradually emerged.Cross-border electronic commerce continues to develop rapidly.Thirteen comprehensive experimental zones in cross-border electronic commerce, such as Hangzhou, actively explored the establishment of a management system with "six systems and two platforms" as the core, and formed mature experiences and practices in 12 aspects, which were replicated and promoted nationwide. According to statistics, in 2017, the import and export of 13 comprehensive experimental zones exceeded 330 billion yuan, more than doubling year-on-year, far exceeding the national average level of foreign trade growth in the same period and becoming a new bright spot of foreign trade growth.
Figure 14 Cross-border e-commerce transaction scale in China from 2013 to 2017
Source: iiMedia Research
(10) Prosperity and development of network culture.
The high definition of digital TV is developing rapidly.Issued the Notice of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television on Accelerating the Development of HDTV and the Notice of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television on Standardizing and Promoting the Development of 4K Ultra-HDTV, and vigorously promoted the high definition of digital TV. By the end of 2017, there were 149 sets of high-definition channels in China, and China’s first 4K ultra-high-definition TV channel was piloted in Guangdong.The digitalization of cultural resources has achieved remarkable results.The total digital resources of the national cultural information resources sharing project reached 532TB, and the total digital resources of the National Digital Library reached 1532.76TB for a long time. The rural film projection project built 252 rural digital cinemas and about 50,000 projection teams.Traditional media and emerging media are deeply integrated and developed.The Notice on Deepening the Digital Transformation and Upgrading of the Press and Publishing Industry was issued and implemented, and a number of mobile clients, all-inclusive media editing platforms and all-inclusive media data centers (databases) have been built in the central major media. The cumulative downloads of People’s Daily news clients exceeded 210 million times, Xinhua News Agency clients reached 250 million times, and CCTV’s "CCTV Audio and Video" clients reached 610 million times.The management of online game market is constantly standardized.The Opinions on Strictly Regulating the Management of Online Game Market was issued and implemented, and centralized rectification actions were carried out against illegal behaviors and bad contents of online games. A comprehensive inspection of the national online game market was basically completed, and more than 5,000 online game business units were inspected and arranged, with more than 100,000 online games. The content such as value-oriented deviation and vulgar violence was greatly reduced, and the main business behavior of enterprises was standardized.Vigorously develop online literature and art.Solidly promote the construction of network culture in colleges and universities across the country, promote the network dissemination and promotion of socialist core values, enhance the sense of the times and appeal, and make the network culture of colleges and universities a powerful engine and inexhaustible source of positive energy in cyberspace. We will continue to carry out activities such as the selection, exhibition and broadcasting of original online audio-visual programs with the theme of "carrying forward socialist core values and building a Chinese dream together", and give birth to a large number of online literary and artistic works that eulogize truth, goodness and beauty and spread positive energy.
(XI) Inclusive development of online education
The construction and application of "three links and two platforms" have achieved remarkable results.The "broadband network school-to-school communication" has developed rapidly, the popularization of "high-quality resource class-to-class communication" has deepened, and the "online learning space for everyone" has developed by leaps and bounds. The public service platform for educational resources has begun to take shape, with 68 million registered users and access to hundreds of applications. The public service platform for education management has been fully applied, and the information pattern of education management of "two-level construction and five-level application" has basically taken shape.Promote the development of online education.Identify the first batch of 490 national quality online open courses, continuously enrich online digital education resources, and push online education inclusive action to a new level.The digital divide between urban and rural schools has narrowed rapidly.According to local conditions, Anhui Province pioneered high-quality schools with weak schools and achieved full coverage of more than 4,900 teaching points. Ganzi Prefecture built two platforms, Ganzi Wisdom Education A and B, to connect high-quality schools outside the region with weak schools in the region, effectively solving the problem of "acclimatization" of high-quality educational resources.
Figure 15 Statistics on the scale and usage rate of online education users in China from the end of 2015 to June 2017.
Source: CNNIC
(XII) A healthy China information service system has basically taken shape.
The national health information service system was basically established.The 13th Five-Year Plan for the Development of National Population Health Informatization was issued, and the information service action of Healthy China was implemented in depth. Accelerate the construction of a unified, authoritative and interconnected national health information platform, and initially establish three databases: population information, residents’ electronic health records and electronic medical records. The world’s largest network direct reporting system for infectious diseases and public health emergencies has been built, and the national four-level national health information platform of provinces, cities and counties has initially achieved full coverage of Unicom. The construction of a national platform for the health information platform of the Museum of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been completed.Wisdom, health care, convenience and benefit to the people are more efficient and convenient.More than 100 million resident health cards have been issued in 28 provinces, and tertiary hospitals across the country have fully realized the diagnosis and treatment of electronic medical records, and constantly carried out Internet health consultation, appointment for medical treatment and mobile payment. More than 13,000 medical institutions have carried out telemedicine services, covering all national poverty-stricken counties, and regional image identification, specimen inspection, ECG diagnosis and remote medical record diagnosis services have been widely used.The construction of big data for health care has been actively promoted.In-depth implementation of the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting and Standardizing the Development of Health Care Big Data Applications", promoting the development of national health care big data applications, and initially establishing a standard system of health care big data resources catalogue, which has achieved remarkable results in facilitating the people and benefiting the people.
Figure 16 Market Scale of Medical Big Data Application in 2014-2017
Source: National Health and Wellness Commission.
Fourth, the development of informatization in various regions has been accelerated.
In order to better evaluate the progress of implementing the Outline of National Informatization Development Strategy and the Thirteenth Five-Year National Informatization Plan in various regions, the National Internet Information Office organized relevant units, and combined with the statistical data and indexes of the National Bureau of Statistics, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, CNNIC and other departments and institutions, designed an evaluation index system for China’s informatization development, mainly including information service application, information technology industry, industrial digitalization, information infrastructure, network security and policy environment. The higher the index value, the better the effect of regional informatization development.
Table 2 Evaluation Index System of Informatization Development
(1) The level of informatization development in 10 provinces and cities is in the forefront of the country.
Combined with the evaluation index system of informatization development, this paper calculates the evaluation index of informatization development of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government in China. The main results are as follows:
The comprehensive index of 10 provinces (cities) such as Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian, Tianjin, Chongqing, Sichuan and Hubei is above 65, and the level of informatization development is at the forefront of the country. The above-mentioned areas attach great importance to informatization, and all of them have issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" for informatization or smart city planning, laid out a new generation of information infrastructure ahead of schedule, and actively promoted innovation in the information technology industry. The digital economy has developed rapidly, information services are universal and efficient, and digital dividends have been released faster. Informatization has played an obvious role in promoting regional coordinated development.
Table 3 The evaluation index of informatization development of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) ranks in the top 10.
The main achievements and highlights are as follows:BeijingAccelerate the construction of a world-class information capital, comprehensively promote the deep integration and application of next-generation information technologies such as big data, Internet of Things and cloud computing in key areas such as people’s livelihood services, urban governance and industrial upgrading, and strengthen the research and development and industrial application of artificial intelligence technologies.GuangdongVigorously develop intelligent manufacturing and industrial internet, promote the deep integration and development of new generation information technology and traditional industries, expand new space for manufacturing development, promote the development of industrial clusters, and promote the stability and long-term development of the real economy. Actively explore the construction of "digital government".Jiangsu(Province)Accelerate the construction of a strong network province, a strong data province and a strong intellectual province, build a smart Jiangsu at a high level, actively build a pioneering area for technological innovation, industrial agglomeration and application demonstration of the Internet of Things, and vigorously promote the integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy. The level of integration of informationization and industrialization ranks first in the country.Zhejiang(Province)Comprehensively promote the reform of "running at most once", vigorously promote the construction of "1253" public data sharing technology system, build a special platform to realize "one network to run", and continuously optimize the business environment. Make every effort to build a national information economy demonstration zone.ShanghaiWe will comprehensively promote the construction of a new smart city facing the future. The level of ubiquity, integration and Zhi Min of urban governance and public services has been significantly improved, and the effect of information benefiting the people and facilitating the people has become increasingly apparent. Promote the deep integration of the digital economy and the real economy, promote the high-end development of the industry, and constantly improve the network security system.Fujian(Province)Adhere to the blueprint of "Digital Fujian" to the end, build a public information management platform integrating emergency disaster prevention, online administrative examination and approval, administrative law enforcement and convenience service, promote R&D and innovation of leading enterprises and industrial parks, and continuously expand the aggregation and multiplication effect of the information technology industry chain. The construction of digital Fujian has achieved remarkable results.TianjinWe will comprehensively promote intelligent manufacturing, develop large-scale personalized customization, build a dual-innovation platform, and accelerate the construction of a digital economy system that integrates innovation. Actively promote the construction of a new generation of information infrastructure with high-speed mobile security in the city.ChongqingVigorously promote the integration and application of public information resources, in-depth implementation of the network poverty alleviation action, the level of informationization in the field of public services has been significantly improved. Accelerate the construction of modern information technology and industrial system, and the digital capability of the industry is constantly enhanced.Sichuan(Province)Juli’s core technology transcends engineering, accelerates the gathering of information security, cloud computing and big data, optical communication and mobile Internet, Beidou satellite navigation and other related industries, promotes breakthroughs in key technologies, and makes core industries bigger and stronger.Hubei(Province)Strengthen the intensive construction of information infrastructure, accelerate the construction of "broadband Hubei", accelerate the development of network security industry, electronic information industry and software service industry, significantly improve the level of digital industrialization, and gradually strengthen the security of network information.
(2) The application of information services benefits the whole people.
Ten places, including Fujian, Zhejiang, Beijing, Guangdong, Chongqing, Ningxia, Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanghai and Shanxi, rank among the top ten in the information service application index of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). The above-mentioned areas attach great importance to the role of information technology in improving the efficiency of public services, promote the widespread popularization of the Internet, and comprehensively carry out "Internet+government services" to make information run more and people run less errands. Actively promote the coverage of information services such as education, medical health, social security and culture in urban and rural areas, deepen the development of information to benefit the people and facilitate the people, and significantly improve the satisfaction of the people.
Table 4 The top 10 information service application indexes of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).
(C) the rapid development of information technology industry
Ten places, including Guangdong, Jiangsu, Beijing, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Shandong, Fujian, Sichuan, Hubei and Tianjin, rank among the top ten in the information technology industry index of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). The above-mentioned areas attach great importance to the development of information technology industry and the construction of ecological system. They have issued relevant plans and action plans to promote the development of information technology industry, strengthened the leading role of information technology innovation, laid out innovation chain around the industrial chain, upgraded the value chain with innovation chain, accelerated the development of a new generation of information technology industry, fostered and expanded the electronic manufacturing industry, software and information technology service industries, and promoted the wide application of big data in various fields of economic and social development, with the leading role of industrial innovation development and radiation being significantly enhanced.
Table 5 The information technology industry index of each province (autonomous region and municipality) ranks in the top 10.
(D) Industrial digital transformation continued to accelerate.
Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Tianjin, Chongqing, Shandong, Fujian, Jiangsu, Anhui and other 10 places rank among the top ten in the industrial digitalization index of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). The above-mentioned areas actively promote the in-depth application of information technology in manufacturing, agriculture and service industries, comprehensively promote the in-depth integration of informationization and industrialization, promote the upgrading of e-commerce, innovate industrial production modes and organizational methods, drive the flexible and efficient allocation of industrial resources, and significantly improve the innovation vitality and core competitiveness of industrial digital transformation.
Table 6 The top 10 industrial digitalization indexes of provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities)
(V) The capacity of information infrastructure has been comprehensively improved.
Ten places, including Beijing, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Guangdong, Fujian, Tianjin, Hubei, Liaoning and Chongqing, rank among the top ten in the information infrastructure index of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). The above-mentioned areas have vigorously promoted the popularization of urban and rural fixed broadband network construction, accelerated the implementation of the transformation of "light entering copper retreating", expanded the coverage of 4G mobile communication networks, further promoted the speed-up and fee reduction of networks, fully implemented the universal service of telecommunications, comprehensively improved the supporting capacity of regional information infrastructure, and effectively released digital dividends.
Table 7 The top 10 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) information infrastructure index.
Five, the basic experience of the construction of digital China since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Looking back and summarizing the historical achievements and changes in the construction and development of digital China in the past five years, in the final analysis, it lies in the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core and the scientific guidance of the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era. To sum up the successful practice of the construction and development of digital China, and unswervingly follow the road of information development with China characteristics, we should always adhere to and grasp the following five basic experiences.
(A) adhere to the Supreme Leader General Secretary’s strategic thinking of strengthening the country through the Internet as the fundamental follow.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has strengthened its leadership over network security and informatization, promoted all aspects of network security and informatization as a whole, put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints and new theories, and formed a rich, profound and scientific strategic thought of strengthening the country through the network. General Secretary Supreme Leader’s strategic thought of strengthening the country through network has pointed out the direction and provided fundamental follow-up for all regions and departments to promote the development of informatization. The practice in the past five years fully shows that arming the mind and guiding practice with the strategic thinking of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on strengthening the country through the Internet is an inexhaustible motive force for promoting the development of China’s informatization and making new historical breakthroughs. All regions and departments should further implement, refine and concretize the strategic thinking of the Supreme Leader General Secretary on strengthening the country through the Internet, and turn it into a key task, major projects and action plans, so as to achieve major breakthroughs, major progress and major achievements in the next five to ten years.
(2) Adhere to the new development concept.
Five development concepts of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing" put forward by the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee are of great guiding significance to the development of information technology. Innovation is the soul of informatization. It is necessary to further play the leading role of informatization in driving innovation and development, implement the innovation-driven development strategy in depth, constantly promote new industries, new formats and new models, and promote new development with new kinetic energy. It is necessary to give full play to the role of informatization in optimizing the allocation of resources, and promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas and regions by using information flow to drive the flow of technology, capital, talent and materials. It is necessary to accelerate the deep integration of informatization and ecological civilization construction, innovate the ecological environment governance model, promote the formation of green production methods, and accelerate the promotion of green lifestyles. It is necessary to take the "Belt and Road" construction as an opportunity to strengthen cooperation with countries along the route, especially developing countries, in network infrastructure construction, digital economy and network security. It is necessary to improve the information service system as the support, promote the sharing of information development achievements among the whole people, and further release the development dividend.
(C) adhere to the people as the center
It is necessary to take the promotion of people’s well-being as the starting point and the foothold of informatization development, and always take the satisfaction of the people and the people’s sense of gain as the yardstick to test the achievements of informatization development. A large number of Internet scientific and technological achievements closely related to people’s lives were exhibited in the "Five Years of Striving" large-scale achievement exhibition, which was well received by the people. It is necessary to further promote the development of informatization for the benefit of the people, continue to play the role of informatization in promoting the optimal allocation of basic public services, improve public governance capacity and service level through informatization, promote the general improvement of people’s living standards and quality, and let the people have more sense of gain in sharing the fruits of informatization development.
(4) Adhere to serving the overall situation
The development of informatization should fully implement the overall layout of "five in one" and coordinate the promotion of "four comprehensive" strategic layouts, fully support the development of the party and the state, promote balanced, inclusive and sustainable economic and social development, and provide solid support for the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. It is necessary to focus on major strategic arrangements such as deepening supply-side structural reform, high-quality development and building a modern economic system, vigorously promote the deep integration and development of the digital economy and the real economy, and give play to the important role of informationization in transforming the development mode, optimizing the economic structure, and transforming the growth momentum. It is necessary to promote the construction of the "Belt and Road", the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, and the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and advocate the joint construction of the Digital Silk Road in the 21st century. It is necessary to speed up the development of agricultural and rural informatization, bridge the digital divide, and help implement the rural revitalization strategy.
(5) Adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party.
The leadership of the Party is the greatest advantage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s system and the fundamental guarantee for the sustained and rapid development of China’s informatization. The development of informatization involves a wide range and the iterative speed of technological updating is fast, which has a far-reaching impact on national development, political security and national security. We must adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party over network information work and ensure that the network information business always advances in the right direction. It is necessary to strengthen top-level design, overall layout, overall coordination, overall promotion and supervision and implementation. It is necessary to coordinate the central and local governments, the forces of the party, government and army, the role of the market and the government, the phased goals and long-term goals, and the coordinated, coordinated, sustainable and healthy development of information technology. It is necessary to strengthen overall planning and coordination, strengthen investigation and research, and coordinate and solve major problems in the development of informatization. It is necessary to strengthen supervision, implementation, assessment and evaluation, promote the development of informatization in economic, political, cultural, social and ecological fields as a whole, and push China’s informatization construction to a new level.
Six, the situation and direction of digital China construction.
From a global perspective, a new generation of information technology innovation is unprecedentedly active, and cutting-edge technologies and subversive technologies are constantly emerging, constantly spawning new technologies, new products and new models, constantly creating new industrial ecosystems, and promoting the deep adjustment of the global economic structure and industrial form. The accelerated integration of network information technology represented by artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing with biotechnology, new energy technology and new material technology is triggering a group technological breakthrough characterized by green, intelligent and ubiquitous. The new economy, represented by digital economy, platform economy and sharing economy, is leading global economic innovation and continuously promoting green, inclusive and sustainable economic development. National innovation and competitiveness, represented by the advantages of network technology, digital construction capacity and big data governance level, are becoming the focus of a new round of competition in the world. It has become a global consensus to speed up the development of informatization and build a digital country. Domestically, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. There must be new achievements in the new era. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a major strategic plan to build a network power, a digital China and a smart society. China’s informatization development is facing new situations and new tasks.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the construction of digital China must adhere to the guidance of Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought, the supreme leader in the new era, fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Second and Third Plenary Sessions of the 19th National Congress, and the spirit of the National Conference on Cybersecurity and Informatization, earnestly and comprehensively implement the people-centered development thought, closely follow the major social contradictions and changes, and firmly establish innovation, coordination, green and four comprehensive strategic layouts around the overall layout of "five in one" and coordination. Give full play to the driving and leading role of informatization in economic and social development, promote and upgrade the development of new industrialization, urbanization and agricultural modernization as a whole, promote the quality change, efficiency change and power change of economic development, help the high-quality economic development and accelerate the construction of a modern economic system; Focus on meeting the new expectations of the broad masses of the people for a better life, fully release the digital dividend, and make informationization better benefit the people; Give full play to the role of informatization in national governance, promote the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity, and make new and greater contributions to winning the Chinese dream of building a well-off society in an all-round way, winning the great victory of Socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(A) innovation, accelerate the breakthrough of core technologies in the information field.
Make up your mind, keep perseverance, find the right center of gravity, and accelerate the breakthrough of core technologies in the information field. Accelerate the breakthrough of basic technology and general technology, and systematically promote the research and development and application of key software and hardware such as high-end chips, core devices, operating systems, databases and high-end servers. Strengthen the advanced layout of strategic frontier technologies, strengthen the basic research and development and frontier layout of new technologies such as quantum communication, future network, brain like computing, artificial intelligence, holographic display, virtual reality, big data cognitive analysis, driverless, blockchain and gene editing, and promote the deep integration of network information technology and vertical industry technology. Follow the law of technological development, do a good job in systematic technological layout, choose the best from the best, make key breakthroughs, and do a good job in industrial system construction. Support core industries such as integrated circuits, mobile intelligent terminals, information and communication equipment, intelligent industrial control systems, intelligent equipment, industrial robots, accelerate the development of next-generation information technology industries such as Internet of Things, cloud computing, big data and mobile Internet, accelerate the commercial application of Beidou and remote sensing satellites, and actively promote the development of emerging industries such as virtual reality (VR) and network culture industries. Strengthen basic research, promote the coordinated development of basic research, technological innovation, industrial development, market application and standard setting as a whole, strengthen innovation chain’s integration and coordination, industrial chain coordination and interaction and efficient connection of value chain, and open up a green channel for the connection between basic research and technological innovation. Cultivate a number of innovative enterprises with outstanding core technical capabilities, strong integrated innovation capabilities and leading the development of important industries.
(2) Take multiple measures to promote the optimization and upgrading of information infrastructure.
Further enhance the network supply capacity, accelerate the popularization of 100 Mbps broadband, promote the construction of gigabit cities, and continuously reduce the blind spots covered by mobile Internet. Increase the speed and cost reduction of the network, achieve full coverage of high-speed broadband in urban and rural areas, expand the scope of free Internet access in public places, and significantly reduce the use fees of home broadband, corporate broadband and private lines. Implement the digital village strategy, do a good job in overall planning and design, speed up the coverage of broadband networks and fourth-generation mobile communication networks in rural areas, develop information technologies, products, applications and services that adapt to the characteristics of agriculture, rural areas and farmers, promote the popularization of telemedicine and distance education, and bridge the digital divide between urban and rural areas. Improve the universal service mechanism of telecommunications, accelerate the construction and upgrading of optical fiber broadband in administrative villages, and improve the long-term compensation mechanism of universal service of telecommunications. Strengthen the intensive construction of data centers, make overall plans for the construction and layout of national data centers and cloud platforms, and promote the joint construction, sharing, optimization and upgrading of information infrastructure of government departments. Accelerate the advanced deployment of a new generation of network technologies, organize the implementation of 5G scale networking construction and application demonstration projects, and promote the main links of the industrial chain to reach the commercial level. Accelerate the implementation of IPv6 scale deployment action plan, accelerate the promotion of network services and applications to fully support IPv6. Strengthen the construction of Beidou satellite navigation system, continue to promote global satellite networking, and form a global service capability. Actively promote the development of the Internet of Things, accelerate the construction of new network facilities such as industrial Internet, energy Internet and space Internet, and develop open-loop applications of the Internet of Things. Promote the construction of the next generation radio and television network and the integration of wired and wireless satellites.
(C) Take the initiative to develop the digital economy.
Focusing on building a modern economic system and achieving high-quality development, we will vigorously develop the digital economy. It is necessary to promote digital industrialization, rely on information technology innovation, constantly spawn new industries, new formats and new models, cultivate new kinetic energy through informationization, and promote new development with new kinetic energy. It is necessary to promote the digitalization of industries, transform traditional industries in an all-round, all-round and all-round way by using new technologies and applications of the Internet, improve the total factor productivity, and release the amplification, superposition and multiplication of numbers on economic development. We will further implement the "internet plus" campaign, promote the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy, and accelerate the digitalization, networking and intelligentization of manufacturing, agriculture and service industries. Accelerate the promotion of "Made in China 2025", deepen the deep integration and development of manufacturing industry and Internet, actively promote the "double innovation" of manufacturing enterprises, the construction of service platforms and service model innovation such as industrial cloud, industrial big data and industrial e-commerce, promote the R&D and application of industrial Internet, accelerate the construction of industrial Internet system, accelerate the formation of a new ecosystem for the healthy development of industrial Internet, and intervene in the high-end of global value chain with digital services. Deepen the pilot demonstration of the integration of manufacturing and Internet, cultivate new networked production modes such as collaborative manufacturing and personalized customization, and carry out the standard construction and standardization promotion of the integration management system. Develop smart agriculture and deepen the pilot demonstration of agricultural Internet of Things. Implement smart water conservancy projects and actively promote the digital management and intelligent transformation of water conservancy public infrastructure. Promote the application of big data in agriculture and rural areas and establish an information service system for the whole agricultural industry chain.Strengthen the in-depth application of advanced digital technology and data resources in all aspects of business, promote cross-border integration, online and offline integration, and domestic and foreign market integration, and continuously improve the digitalization level in the fields of business circulation and investment cooperation. Develop a platform economy and share the economy, and form an innovative and entrepreneurial pattern that combines online and offline, cooperates with Industry-University-Research, and integrates large, medium and small enterprises. Improve the digital supply capacity of the service industry and promote the development of Internet content industries such as knowledge payment and digital creativity. Actively participate in the formulation of international rules and standards in cross-border data trade, e-commerce, service trade, internet finance, etc., establish a negotiation and coordination mechanism for digital economy countries, and guide online information enterprises to actively participate in the construction of international economic zones such as the "Belt and Road", free trade ports, bilateral and multilateral free trade zones, and further expand the development space of digital economy.
(4) Deepen reform and focus on solving the problem of information resources sharing and opening up.
We will improve the policies and measures for sharing and opening up information resources, establish and improve the catalogue system of national key data resources, build a national Internet big data platform, and build a unified, efficient, interconnected, safe and reliable national data resource system. Establish and improve the national data resource management system and mechanism, and establish policies, regulations and standard systems related to data openness, property rights protection, data transaction and privacy protection. Accelerate the interconnection of government information systems and open up information islands. Improve the application mechanism of co-construction and sharing of basic government information resources, and accelerate the sharing and opening up of government information resources in key areas. We will continue to speed up the construction of the basic information base of national legal entities, promote the improvement of the data sharing mechanism of government departments, and build an online identity authentication and service platform for market participants. Accelerate the implementation of the informatization project of ecological environment protection, establish a catalogue of ecological environment information resources, and form five national unified ecological environment basic databases: environmental quality, pollution sources, ecological protection, nuclear and radiation safety and comprehensive management. Build a smart water conservancy big data center and accelerate the application of water conservancy big data. Further strengthen the construction of "land and resources cloud", speed up the construction of basic platform for real estate registration information management, vigorously promote the construction of land and space information platform, and speed up the sharing and opening of land and resources data. Promote the poverty alleviation and development big data platform to carry out data cleaning and information sharing with relevant departments. Accelerate the construction of "China Science and Technology Cloud", face the national scientific and technological workers, and create a scientific research information cloud environment that gathers all kinds of scientific research information resources.
(E) Co-construction and sharing, so that the development of information technology can better benefit the people.
We will further promote "Internet+government services", build a full-process integrated online service platform, accelerate the integration of online and offline services, realize one-line government service, and better solve the problems of difficulty, slowness and complexity that enterprises and the masses have strongly reflected. Vigorously develop educational informatization, accelerate the promotion of large-scale online open courses, accelerate the coverage of high-quality educational resources to old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas and remote areas through educational informatization, and carry out the activity of "one excellent course for one teacher and one famous teacher for one class" in depth. Further promote the construction of cultural information resource database, promote the creation of online literary and artistic masterpieces, support the network communication of excellent works, and enhance the innovation and supply capacity of excellent online cultural products. Promote the new online medical and health care model, promote the nationwide networking of information such as employment, social insurance, education, vocational training, skilled personnel evaluation and legal services, and build an online and offline information service system. Accelerate the application of social security cards and big data applications, build an online identity authentication and service platform for social security cards, explore the establishment of online service capabilities and big data sharing and opening capabilities for social security cards, promote business access, resource sharing and data opening, and improve service capabilities and levels for the people. Deepen the network poverty alleviation, improve the network poverty alleviation information service system, and help people in poverty-stricken areas improve their cultural quality, physical quality and employability through online education, online culture and online medical care. Implement the "internet plus Community" action plan and build an online and offline urban and rural community service system. Accelerate the promotion of information into villages and households to the whole country,Vigorously promote the gathering of agricultural service resources to the national public welfare platform of information entering villages and households, and provide farmers with one-stop comprehensive information services. Construct an information service system for young people, women and children. Continue to promote the information construction of comprehensive management of social security with the "discerning project" as the leading factor. Use the Internet, big data, etc. to improve the efficiency of supervision, speed up the realization of the whole process of leaving traces and traceability of information, so that consumers can buy with confidence and eat safely. Promote the construction of new smart cities by classification, realize the transformation from government-centered to people-centered construction concepts and service methods, deepen and expand services such as smart production, smart life, smart governance and smart ecology, and meet the people’s new expectations for a better life.
(six) lay a solid foundation to further enhance the network security capabilities.
It is necessary to establish a correct concept of network security, strengthen the top-level design of network security, improve the network security laws and regulations system, improve the national network security related system, improve the national network security information notification mechanism, and improve the national network security standards and certification system. Thoroughly implement the national network security level protection system, strengthen the network security protection of information infrastructure, strengthen the construction of emergency command ability of network security incidents, actively develop the network security industry, and make the gateway move forward to prevent problems before they happen. Accelerate the construction of national cyber security talents and innovation bases, and form a good ecology for cyber security talents training, technological innovation and industrial development. Organize the security review of important network products and services. Strengthen the standardization of network security. Severely crack down on illegal and criminal acts such as cyber hacking, telecommunication network fraud, infringement of citizens’ personal privacy, cut off the interest chain of cyber crimes, continue to form a high-pressure situation, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the people. Safeguard network sovereignty, promote transnational cooperation in network security, improve the linkage mechanism between network security and informatization law enforcement, and establish an international cooperation mechanism to combat cybercrime. It is necessary to carry out in-depth publicity and popularization of network security knowledge and skills, and improve the people’s awareness of network security and protection skills.
(7) create a win-win situation, continuously improve the information development environment and deepen the opening-up pattern.
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that China adhered to the basic national policy of opening to the outside world and persisted in opening its doors to the outside world for construction. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly stressed that the door open to China will not be closed, but will only grow wider. Efforts should be made to improve the institutional environment of information development, improve the institutional environment of finance, taxation, international trade, talents and intellectual property protection, optimize the market environment, better release the innovation vitality of various innovation subjects, foster a fair market environment, strengthen intellectual property protection, and oppose monopoly and unfair competition. It is necessary to study and formulate the overall plan for the development of talents in the field of network information, promote the reform of the system and mechanism for the development of talents, and let the creative vitality of talents compete with generate and their talents fully emerge. It is necessary to promote the opening of the market in the information field, establish a credit commitment system before the market participants in the network information field enter, and promote the reform of foreign investment access in telecommunications and Internet industries. It is necessary to deepen international exchanges and cooperation in informatization, accelerate the construction of the digital Silk Road in the 21st century, and promote the construction of Ningxia hub project of China-ASEAN information port and online Silk Road. Actively participate in the formulation of international rules and standards, jointly promote the reform of the global Internet governance system, and join hands with countries around the world to build a community of cyberspace destiny.