China has passed a special program to promote social and economic
development through the wider use of information technology, and a
guideline on handling government affairs online.
They were passed Wednesday at a meeting presided over by Chinese
Premier Zhu Rongji. Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintao,
Vice-PremierLi Lanqing and other high-ranking government leaders
also attended the meeting.
The documents were presented to the meeting by Zeng Peiyan,
minister in charge of the State Development Planning Commission,
but no concrete information on the documents was available.
The meeting called for more efforts to apply information technology
in every field of social and economic development through improved
IT infrastructure and better use of existing Internet resources and
private investment.
The meeting stressed China should strive for a reliable,
forward-looking national information network with the best possible
structure, and for an open and rapidly-growing IT-related
manufacturing sector.
It
pointed out that governments at all levels should give full play to
non-government investment and the role of the market mechanism in
projects involving information resource development, construction
of IT infrastructure, IT application and IT products.
The meeting also stressed the importance of software industry,
calling for acceleration in the development of the industry.
(Xinhua News Agency July 5, 2002)
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