Accelerate the Development of Our Country's Information and Network Technologies*
*Excerpt from a speech at a meeting of the responsible Party members attending the Third Session of the Ninth NPC and the Third Session of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
March 3, 2000
Rapid progress in science and technology around the world has led to great changes in our economic and social life. The present rapid development of information networks should command the close attention of cadres at all levels and the whole of society. Information networks developed considerably in the 1990s and forecasts predict that by the end of 2000, the Internet will connect more than a million networks of all kinds, ...

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