Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting Information Consumption and Boosting Domestic Demand
Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting Information Consumption and Boosting Domestic Demand
Several Opinions of the State Council on Promoting Information Consumption and Boosting Domestic Demand
Guo Fa [2013] No.32
August 8, 2013
The people's governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, all the ministries and commissions of and all institutions directly under the State Council,
In recent years, the information technology innovation continues to speed up global wide, the new products, new services, and new commercial activities are emerging in large volumes in the information field, which continuously inspires new consumption demand, and has become increasingly active consumption hotspots. China's market scale is large, and is right in the stage of accelerating the integration and development of the residents consumption upgrading and informatization, industrialization, urbanization, agricultural modernization, which gives the information consumption a good development foundation and huge development potential. Meanwhile, China's information consumption is facing problems of infrastructure supporting capacity needing to be improved, poor product and service innovation capacity, high market entry threshold, no-sound supporting policies, serious industrial barriers, institutional mechanisms not suited etc. which urgently need to take measures to solve. Accelerating the promotion of information consumption can effectively stimulate demand and bring new economic growth points, promote consumption upgrading, industrial restructuring and improve people's livelihood, which is an important move that will benefit both the current and long-term, both promoting steady growth and adjusting the structure. In order to speed up the promotion of the continuous growth of information consumption, the following opinions are hereby put forward,
Article 1 General Requirements
1. Guiding Ideology. Take the Deng Xiaoping Theory and "Three Represents" important thought, the scientific development concept as the guidance, the reform deepening as the driving force, the technology and innovation as the support, and work around the excavation of consumption potential, enhance supplying capacity, stimulate the market vitality, improve the consumption environment, strengthen the construction of information infrastructure, speed up the optimization and upgrading of information industry, vigorously enrich the information consumption content, improve the information network security capabilities, set up long-term mechanism to promote sustained and stable growth of information consumption, promote the rapid and healthy growth of information consumption facing production, living and management, so as to play a greater role in the steady and rapid economic development and improving people's livelihood.
2. Fundamental Principles
Market-oriented, reform and development. Accelerate the transformation of government functions and management innovation, give full play to the role of markets, break industry entry barriers, promote the open sharing of information resources and fair competition among enterprises, adhere to the marketization operation in the field of competitiveness, actively introduce market mechanisms in the social management and public services field, enhance the endogenous power of the information consumption development.
Demand traction, innovation and development. Guide the enterprises to base on the domestic demand market, strengthen innovation base, improve the level of innovation, encourage diversified development, accelerate the research and development of critical core information technology and products, encourage business model innovation, and foster and develop new commercial activities, improve the level of effective supply of information products, services, content, excavate and release consumption potential.
Improve the environment and develop orderly. Establish and improve the policy environment to help the expansion of information consumption, comprehensively utilize the wired and wireless technologies and other technologies to moderately ahead the deployment of broadband infrastructure, use the information platform to improve public services, improve market supervision, standardize the order of industrial development, enhance personal information protection and information security, construct safety, integrity and orderly information consumption market environment.
3. Main objectives
Scale of information consumption grows rapidly. By 2015, the scale of information consumption shall has exceeded CNY3.2 trillion with an average annual increase of 20% or more, driven additional outputs of the related industries by more than CNY 1.2 trillion, of which the scale of new internet-based information consumption reached CNY2.4 trillion with an average annual growth of more than 30%. The e-commerce, cloud computing and other information platform-based consumption growed rapidly, e-commerce transaction volume exceeded CNY18 trillion, the amount of online retail transactions exceeded CNY3 trillion.
Information infrastructure significantly improved. By 2015, the next generation information infrastructure of broadband, convergence, security, ubiquitous that adapts to the economic and social development needs shall have been initially established, the city home broadband access capacity will basically reach 20 megabits per second (Mbps), in some cities reach 100Mbps, rural home broadband access capacity will reach 4Mbps, administrative villages broadband proportion will reach 95%.
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