Information Consumption Becomes an Important Engine for Economic Growth

Information Consumption Becomes an Important Engine for Economic Growth

Actively adapt to the new normal and cultivate new highlights of growth. As China's economic growth rate is shifting from high-speed to medium-high speed, information consumption has become a new growth point. In 2014, China’s information consumption reached 2.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 18% year-on-year, and contributed about 0.8 percentage points to GDP. At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proposed the expected target of 2015: the scale of information consumption will reach 3.2 trillion yuan, an increase of about 15% from the same period of last year. Information consumption has become an important engine for stimulating economic growth.

Promoting information consumption is an important strategic plan for the Party Central Committee and the State Council to stimulate domestic effective demand and promote economic transformation and upgrading. It is an important link for steady growth, reform, structural adjustment, and benefiting people's livelihood. The Party Group of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology conscientiously implemented the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, always regarded the promotion of information consumption as the most important task of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, took the courage to take the initiative, boldly innovated, carefully laid out the layout, and tried hard to overcome difficulties, continued to advance, and handed in a satisfactory circle. Point of information consumption transcripts. In July 2014, the State Council focused on the implementation of the policy of “stabilizing growth, promoting reforms, adjusting the structure, and benefiting the people’s livelihood” and carried out inspections on 19 important topics. The State Council Inspectorate gave full recognition to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in promoting information consumption.

High-quality information and consumption promotion pilot

Promoting information consumption is a groundbreaking and exploratory innovation project. Not only does not have ready-made experience to follow, but it also needs bold innovation to try ahead and explore the appropriate institutional mechanisms and methods. In August 2013, the State Council's "Several Opinions on Promoting Information Consumption and Expanding Domestic Demand" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions") was formally released. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology attached great importance and went all out to implement the "Opinions" carefully. Starting from the end of 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has selected two batches of pilot cities (counties, districts) for information consumption in the country, totaling 104, and issued the “2014 Main Points for the Construction of the First National Cities for Information Consumption Pilot Cities (Counties and Districts)”. In September 2014, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Development Bank signed the "Financial Cooperation Agreement for Promoting the Construction of Information Consumption Pilot Cities" to support the construction of key information-related consumer projects. Thanks to the strong promotion and effective advocacy of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, new models of information consumption and new business conditions have emerged in all parts of the country.

For more than a year, pilot cities have focused on new technologies, new formats, and new models, strengthened their sense of innovation, continuously deepened reforms, and actively explored new mechanisms for promoting information consumption. Tianjin, Zhejiang, and Hubei provinces and cities have actively promoted the trial of “reform and increase” in the post and telecommunications industry; Hangzhou and other cities have continuously explored new models for triple play; Shanghai and other places explored the development and utilization of public information resources through government data service portals. Model; Beijing actively promotes the piloting of electronic invoice applications; Chongqing has an innovative mechanism to promote the extension of people's livelihood information services to townships.

Over the past year or so, some provinces, cities and pilot cities have joined forces with relevant ministries, telecom operators, central enterprises, and relevant industry associations to actively explore new models for promoting information consumption. Zhejiang, Hubei, etc., started strategic cooperation around the application and application of BeiDou; Guangdong and Henan provinces and cities carried out strategic cooperation with smart city construction and telecommunication operators; Xinjiang, Fujian, Xiamen, and other key enterprises with Alibaba and China Electronics strengthened cooperation. , To create a good development environment for information consumption; some pilot cities rely on enterprises and industry associations to establish a number of service platforms for information consumption.

Over the past year or so, local governments have taken a new generation of information technology industry as the focus of policy support. With the construction of key projects, they have expanded information consumption and improved incentives around key areas, key industries, and key products. Shanghai implemented high-end software, integrated circuits, smart terminals, new displays, cloud computing, and big data; Guangdong implemented a major engineering project to promote the rapid expansion of the Internet of Things industry market, nurturing Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Huizhou three hundred billion yuan The Internet of things industry base; Hefei Quanquan's efforts to accelerate the construction of a new national flat panel display base.

Promoting the consumption of information is a vast and systematic project that involves the whole body. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII) dared to fight tough, multi-pronged and multi-pronged measures to cultivate a new bright spot for information consumption.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has made every effort to upgrade information infrastructure, expand product supply, create new business model, cultivate new demands, and improve the development environment. It has innovated and practiced, created an excellent environment for the sustained and rapid growth of information consumption, and laid a solid foundation. Information consumption plays an important role in stabilizing growth, promoting reform, adjusting the structure, and benefiting people's livelihood.

For more than a year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has spared no effort to promote the construction of information consumption infrastructure and enhance the supply capacity of information products: the implementation of the "broadband China" strategy, the promotion of 4G network construction, the issuance of TD-LTE licenses, and the promotion of basic telecom operators in combination with 4G Network construction, building a tower company to strengthen the resources to build and share.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is focusing on enhancing the supply of information products, relying on major science and technology projects and industrial funds to promote the industrialization of information terminals and core technologies, and organizing and implementing Beidou navigation application demonstration projects in key industries such as transportation, telecommunications, and equipment.

In the past year or so, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has actively cultivated information consumption needs, guided the development of new business models and new models such as mobile Internet, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things, and cultivated new consumer hotspots: Formulating major projects for the implementation of cloud computing, and implementing and implementing 2014 cloud computing. The project has organized and implemented 10 special action plans for the development of the Internet of Things to support the construction of major applications demonstration projects for key industries and people's livelihoods. It has guided the development of new forms of mobile Internet, and online and offline interaction (O2O) has become a new way of information consumption. New breakthroughs have been made in mobile technologies such as network, map positioning, mobile payment, QR code, and mobile social networking.

For more than a year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has been actively expanding its information consumption channels and promoting the upgrade of information consumption to high quality and personalization: in order to promote the development of e-commerce, it has organized trials for the integrated innovation of e-commerce and logistics informationization to support e-commerce transactions for small and medium-sized enterprises. Platform construction. In 2014, the nation’s e-commerce transactions amounted to approximately RMB 12 trillion, an increase of 20%, of which online retail sales increased by 41% and internet industry revenue increased by 50%.

For more than a year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has deepened reforms and innovations and created a healthy development environment for promoting information consumption. Information consumption has become a new driving force for deepening reforms. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology carries out trials of the mobile communication resale business and encourages private capital to enter the telecommunications field; conducts in-depth studies on the development trend of Internet finance; explores new Internet-based financing models; promotes website filing; accelerates the establishment of legal systems for personal information protection; accelerates the construction of smart cities and formulates information Consumption statistics system.

When the wind breaks through the waves, Yunfan sails to the sea. Under the current environment of great changes in social development, the information industry’s product formats and business models are still far from being shaped, and the huge potential for information consumption is yet to be tapped. As the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology promotes the continuous promotion of information consumption projects and the widespread application of new generation information and communication technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and cloud computing, information consumption will continue to release dividends, generate more new models and new business forms, and promote steady growth and promotion. We will play a more important role in reforming, restructuring and benefiting people's livelihood.