On the development of China's information technology industry

337 Pages·2010·2.419 MB·English

by  Zemin Jiang

ON THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF CHINA'S
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY
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ON THE
DEVELOPMENT
OF CHINA'S
INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY
JIANG ZEMIN
Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Former President, People's Republic of China

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CONTENTS
About theAuthor ix
Editors' Notetothe OriginalChinese Edition xiii
Preface(November8,2008) xv
PART ONE
Development of Our Country's IT Industry in the New Period
(October 28, 2008) 3
PART TWO
Report on an Inspection Tour of the US and Canadian Electronics
Industries (August 10, 1983) 59
Revitalize Our Country's Electronics Industry
(September 11, 1983) 73
Accelerate the Development of the Electronics Industry and
Meet the Challenges of the New Technological Revolution
(February 10, 1984) 79
Gradually Explore a Chinese Style Development Path for the
Electronics Industry (February 21, 1984) 85
Promote Rapid and Balanced Development of Our Country's

Electronics Industry (March 1, 1984) 113
Foreign Trade in the Electronics Industry and Its Development
Policy (August 20, 1984) 127
Accelerate the Development of Our Country's Computer Industry
(September 5, 1984) 131
Revitalize the Electronics Industry and Promote the Four
Modernizations (September 16, 1984) 139
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Write a New Chapter in Our Country's Computer Industry
(December 1984) 149
Initiate a New Phase in the Electronics Industry's Services for
the Four Modernizations (January 28, 1985) 155
Appendix A
Basic Strategy and Measures for Accelerating the
Development of Our Country's Electronics Industry
(January 24, 1985) 178
Appendix B
Ideas for the Reform of the Electronics Industry's
Management System (January 24, 1985) 191
Several Issues Concerning Shifting the Focus of Services in the
Electronics Industry and Reforming Its Management System
(February 4, 1985) 203
Conscientiously Study and Solve Problems Facing the
Development of Our Country's Electronics Industry (June 1, 1985) 211
Development Strategy Issues in Our Country's Electronics
Industry (June 5, 1985) 215
New Characteristics in the Development of the World's
Electronic Information Industry and Strategy Issues Concerning
the Development of China's Electronic Information Industry
(May 26, 1989) 233

Computerize Financial Management (June 1, 1993) 247
Seizing Information Superiority Will Become a Focus in Warfare
(December 14, 1996) 251
Create a Set of Effective Mechanisms to Develop New and High
Technologies and Industries That Use Them (February 10, 1999) 253
Accelerate the Development of Our Country's Information
and Network Technologies (March 3, 2000) 255
Contents vii
Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the 16th World Computer
Congress (August 21, 2000) 257
Strive to Accomplish the Two Historic Tasks of Mechanizing and
Informationizing Our Army (December 11, 2000) 261
Promote Rapid and Sound Development of Our Country's
Information Networks (July 11, 2001) 263
Accelerate Our Country's Informationization (August 25, 2001) 267
Use Informationization to Drive Industrialization and Use
Industrialization to Promote Informationization (November 8, 2002) 271
Informationize the Army (December 27, 2002) 273
Strive to Seize the Technological Initiative in the Microelectronics,
Software, and Computer Industries (December 10, 2006) 293
Index 297
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province,China, Jiang Zemin was born on
August 17, 1926.
Starting in 1943, he took part in student movements led by under-
ground organizations of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and even-
tually joined the CPC in April 1946. He graduated from the Electrical
Engineering Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1947.
After the liberation of Shanghai, he served successively as deputy
engineer,chiefoftheworkssectionandconcurrentlyasheadofthepower
workshop,Partybranchsecretary,andfirstdeputydirectoroftheShanghai
Yimin No. 1 Foodstuff Factory; first deputy director of the Shanghai Soap
Factory; and chief of the electrical appliances section of the Shanghai
No. 2 Design Sub-bureau of the First Ministry of Machine-Building
Industry.
In 1955, he was a trainee at the Stalin Automobile Works in Moscow,
USSR.
After his return to China in 1956, Jiang Zemin served successively as
deputy chief of the power section, deputy chief power engineer, and
directorofthepowerplant oftheFirstAutomotiveWorksin Changchun.
After 1962, he served successively as deputy director of the Shanghai
Electrical Appliances Research Institute, director, acting Party committee
secretary,andPartycommitteesecretaryoftheWuhanThermo-Engineering
Machinery Institute, and deputy director-general and director-general of
the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the First Ministry of Machine-Building

Industry.
After 1980, he served as vice chairman and concurrently as secretary
general of the State Administration Commission on Import and Export
Affairs and the State Administration Commission on Foreign Investment,
and was a member of the leading Party groups of these two commissions.
After1982,heservedasfirstviceministeroftheMinistryofElectronics
Industry and deputy secretary of its leading Party group, and later as its
minister and secretary of its leading Party group.
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