Abstract
Types of rural-urban gaps exist and seem keep in extending in the mainland of China, although agriculture and rural lives have obtained significant enhancement since the “opening and reforming” policy started in 1980. Amongst these gaps, digital gap is critical itself, and may make other gaps wider. How to promote rural informationization construction effectively and efficiently is a great and new challenge to Chinese government and Chinese people nowadays. Meanwhile, the process of rural informationization also brings opportunities with new markets, new technology and new culture, etc. The first part of this chapter introduces the background about rural areas and rural informationization in China in brief. The second part studies the three phases of agricultural informationization first, then, gives focus on main types of service models and technology models of rural informationization. Furthermore, policy guidance and government (guided) projects or actions are introduced in the third part. Finally, this chapter ends with the significance and development direction of agricultural informationization in this transition country. We wish the information service models and technical models introduced here bring meaningful references for relevant people such as police-makers, basic-level officers, farmers, and agricultural information companies inside and outside the mainland of China.
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Internet users are those citizens 6 years old or over 6 years old and using Internet at least once per half year. (CNNIC 2007a)
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This task was over-completed. On Nov. 24, 2005, 52304 administrative villages, instead of 14563 as designed, got to have phone owing to EVC project. Therefore, the phone penetration rate for administrative villages increased from 89% to 97.1%. (Statistics yearbook of China’s information industry, 2007).
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The task for 2006 was over-completed too. The phone penetration rate for administrative villages increased to 98.9% at the end of 2006, to 99.13% at the beginning of Sept. 2007, and designed to reach 99.5% at the end of 2007. Almost all townships have accesses to be online, and parts of townships and administrative villages have broadband Internet in Eastern or Middle China. Meanwhile parts of townships have dial-up Internet in Western China. Jiangsu province was the first realizing that all administrative villages have broadband Internet and all natural villages with over 20 households have phones at the end of 2006. Meanwhile, all natural villages having phones are realized in Guangdong province (Informationization editors 2007).
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Wang, W., Peng, G., Lu, G. (2009). Agricultural Informationization in China. In: Ordóñez de Pablos, P., Lytras, M. (eds) The China Information Technology Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77743-6_16
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