ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA'S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY

Accelerate Our Country's Informationization*

^*Foreword to the book Explorations and Practice in China's Informationization.

August 25, 2001

Since the adoption of the reform and opening up policy, our country has attained great accomplishments in informationization, and the information industry has become an important pillar industry. We need to further understand the important role informationization plays in economic and social development from the general perspective of our country's modernization.

Materials, energy, and information are the three main resources of modern social development. The rapid development of IT makes information resources more important by the day. Economic development and social progress make the importance of information ...