Deciphering the ＂Password＂ of Network Power in the Outline of the 13th Five-Year Plan
As a programmatic document leading China’s social and economic development in the next five years, the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" has attracted much attention from the society since its promulgation. Among them, 12 articles with 25 chapters, such as implementing innovation-driven development strategy, building a new development system, optimizing modern industrial system, fully implementing poverty alleviation and strengthening socialist spiritual civilization construction, are all related to the Internet, and "expanding network economic space" is listed as a separate article in the outline, which is the first time that China’s five-year plan has planned the development of the Internet with such high specifications.
China Netcom invited Wang Yukai, a member of the National Informationization Expert Advisory Committee and a professor of the National School of Administration, to visit the interview room to talk about his views on the weight of the Internet in this planning outline and the road map for China to implement the strategy of strengthening the country through the Internet in the next five years.
What is the significance of "expanding the network economic space" being written into the outline?
The article "Expanding the Network Economic Space" in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" contains four chapters: building a ubiquitous and efficient information network, developing a modern Internet industry system, implementing the national big data strategy, and strengthening information security.
In the Internet era, new technologies such as cloud computing, big data, mobile Internet and Internet of Things have been loaded, and the Internet can be deeply integrated with various industries, with many new formats and new values created. Many new growth points in generate have also spawned a new concept — — Network economy. In view of the four development directions of "expanding the network economic space" in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", Wang Yukai believes that they have different meanings:
Constructing ubiquitous and efficient information network — — "Without a strong network infrastructure as a support, a network power will have no foundation."China’s largest network scale and the number of netizens in the world, underdeveloped broadband network and a large-scale Internet industry have very high requirements for network infrastructure; Some experts predict that in the future, the Internet of Things can cover the Internet, and this form of connection between things, people and things, and people also needs high-speed ubiquitous network infrastructure construction as a guarantee.
Develop a modern Internet industry system— — The Internet industry system now includes two aspects: consumer Internet and industrial Internet. Alibaba and JD.COM are representative enterprises that consume the Internet, and the "internet plus" action plan and the "Made in China 2025" action plan are aimed at building the industrial Internet. Internet can be deeply integrated with many industries, such as internet plus Finance, internet plus Manufacturing, Internet+Agriculture, internet plus Transportation, Internet+Education … … "If the industrial system relies on the Internet, it will bring great changes from production, circulation to consumption."
Implementing the National Big Data Strategy — — "Raising big data into a national strategy has a lot to do with the value of big data itself."战略上大数据是一种数据资本；处理方式上它是用云计算发掘、处理的一种新技术；价值上社会、政府、数据挖掘公司都可以通过数据不断创造、产生新价值。
强化信息安全保障——中国在互联网安全、国家安全保障还存在短板，除了高度重视堵住制度漏洞，打造互联网安全和国家安全体系还在于关键技术的自主可控。全国12亿手机用户，包括6亿多智能手机用户，绝大多数只用苹果和安卓两个手机操作系统，电脑则主要是微软系统。2014年我国光进口芯片就花了八千亿美元，远远超过进口石油花的钱。只有握住关键点，国家安全、互联网安全才能有所保障。我们要借助互联网经济的大框架，构建网络安全产业的保障体系。
“网络强国”的实现有几重标志？
2014年，最高领袖总书记担任中央网络安全和信息化领导小组组长。他在领导小组第一次会议中指出：我国已成为网络大国。同时也要看到，我们在自主创新方面还相对落后，区域和城乡差异比较明显，特别是人均带宽与国际先进水平差距较大，国内互联网发展瓶颈仍然较为突出。同时指出，没有网络安全就没有国家安全，没有信息化就没有现代化。
Wang Yukai said that we have made great achievements in the development of the Internet in recent years. The number of netizens in China is close to 700 million, ranking first in the world, but the internet penetration rate is less than 50%, which is far from developed countries. The construction of network infrastructure is constantly increasing, and China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are constantly laying networks throughout the country; High-speed broadband extends to villages and towns; There have been such internationally renowned enterprises as Alibaba, JD.COM, Baidu, Tencent, Sina, Huawei, ZTE and Lenovo. Network scale, network users, mobile phone penetration rate, network industry, network economy, including the level of social, government and enterprise informatization have all reached a relatively large scale.
But we are not a network power yet. Network powers have the following signs: the Internet and Internet of Things infrastructure are at the world-class level — — Including network scale, broadband penetration rate, ubiquitous broadband, etc. There are a wide range of Internet applications — — Whether it is enterprise, government, social application, consumer Internet or industrial Internet, it should be widely used by all industries and ordinary people. Have the right to speak on the Internet in the world — — Including the country’s greater right to speak in the process of formulating Internet rules and participating in world cooperation; Have a clear Internet development strategy and plan — — Including the internet of things, big data strategy, network power strategy and relatively strong network security and national security protection capabilities. From these aspects, we still have a certain distance from the goal of becoming a strong country in the network.
How to promote the strategy of strengthening the country by network to fill the shortcomings of people’s livelihood?
The "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" also includes 100 major projects and projects that the country plans to implement in the next five years. After preliminary combing, major engineering projects related to network security and informatization development include national cyberspace security, implementation of "internet plus" modern agriculture, cultivation of the fifth generation mobile communication (5G) as a new growth point, construction of high-speed and large-capacity optical communication transmission system, construction of Internet of Things application infrastructure and service platform, support for the construction of public cloud service platform, layout of cloud computing and big data center, acceleration of the construction and application of national unified e-government network, creation of an international channel for e-commerce, and construction of national network security and confidentiality technical guarantee.
Wang Yukai said that nearly ten of these major projects and projects involve new Internet technologies, and if they are finally completed, we will be closer to the realization of the goal of becoming a strong country in the Internet. However, in addition to infrastructure construction and national security, we should also use the development of the Internet to benefit people’s livelihood. Through the application of the Internet in the fields of people’s livelihood such as medical care, education and social security, the development of the whole Internet industry will be stimulated.
For example, 56 of the 86 counties in Gansu Province are poverty-stricken counties, and there is great pressure to get rid of poverty. For this reason, they have established an accurate information platform for poverty alleviation, and they can see the poverty situation of any family in the province in front of the computer. If a family was lifted out of poverty last year, but returned to poverty because of illness, it is required that the platform be accurate to who the family returned to poverty because of illness. This platform also makes use of information network technology for how to implement poverty alleviation funds and how to correct mistakes.
What aspects should we make efforts to implement the strategy of strengthening the country by network?
Wang Yukai believes that in order to ensure the smooth progress of the strategy of strengthening the country by network, the following aspects should be adhered to in the future:
The state has issued a reasonable plan and strategy, and standardized it with a unified and authoritative strategic goal of strengthening the country through the Internet.Let the formulated strategy be implemented relatively, and there are more specific operational paths.
Local governments should adjust measures to local conditions and implement relevant planning strategies.All localities can decide the key development areas according to the existing foundation, industrial form, positioning in the national market and industrial advantages to avoid repetitive construction.
Infrastructure construction should not only play the role of the state, but also play the role of the market with the help of the market.If government departments make decisions and engage in construction alone, it may lead to waste of resources. Introducing PPP (government-social capital cooperation) mode in the construction of network facilities, big data centers and network security guarantee system, with the help of government and market, the major projects can be really useful in the future.
Reform unreasonable system and mechanism, and remove obstacles to the application of information technology.Because the application of information technology and internet technology in government, enterprises and society may be restricted by traditional institutional mechanisms, and at the same time, departmental barriers and administrative barriers make communication barriers between institutions, forming information islands. Therefore, we should use the power of reform to remove the obstacles of unreasonable institutional mechanisms to the application of information technology, big data mining and application, and promote the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the country through the network.