Facilitating Industry Upgrade, Low Cost Informatization and Sustainable Development

Abstract

Short-term targets (2010–2020): Consolidate the IT applications basis. By 2020, the gap between the IT application level in the main areas of national economic and social life and that of medium-developed countries shall be reduced to 6–7 years from the current lag of more than 10 years; the general level of national information capability (the Networked Readiness Index) will rank 30^th in the world from the current 50^th to 60^th, and top five in Asia; China’s eastern coastal areas with advanced economies will start to become elementary information societies.