Five years ago, on April 19th, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader presided over a symposium on network security and informatization and delivered an important speech, stressing: "Promote the development of China’s network information industry and make the Internet better benefit the people." This important exposition fully demonstrates the people-centered development thought, clarifies the historical mission of China’s network information undertaking, and points out the direction for further promoting the construction of a network power.
Internet is one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century, which has brought great changes to people’s production and life, and played a strong role in promoting innovation and development in many fields. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has embarked on a great struggle with many new historical characteristics, attached importance to the Internet, developed the Internet, and managed the Internet, made overall plans and coordinated major issues concerning informationization and network security in political, economic, cultural, social, military and other fields, made a series of major decisions and put forward a series of major measures, and promoted the cause of network information to achieve historic achievements. Network infrastructure construction and information services have been popularized, new technologies and applications such as online trading, mobile payment and shared travel have been widely popularized, e-government has been accelerated, network poverty alleviation has been solidly promoted, social governance and basic public services have been continuously improved, and the people have more sense of acquisition, happiness and security.
In today’s world, modern information technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing and big data have profoundly changed the way people think, produce, live and learn. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader profoundly pointed out: "In response to the development of information technology, promoting educational reform and innovation, building a networked, digital, personalized and lifelong education system, building a learning society where everyone can learn, learn everywhere, and learn from time to time, and cultivating a large number of innovative talents are major issues facing mankind." China persists in promoting educational informatization and strives to expand the coverage of high-quality educational resources by means of informatization. Through the informationization of education, we will gradually narrow the digital gap between regions and urban and rural areas, vigorously promote educational equity, and let hundreds of millions of children share quality education under the blue sky and change their destiny through knowledge.
Ensuring people’s life safety and health is an important task of the party and the country. General Secretary of the Supreme Leader once vividly pointed out: "Medical and health services plus informationization are even more powerful!" He stressed: "We should attach great importance to the application of a new generation of information technology and accelerate the development of’ Internet+medical health’." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China has made great efforts to improve the construction of population health information service system, established an interconnected population health information platform, promoted the application of big data in health care, promoted data collection, integration and sharing, and business collaboration of application information systems such as public health, family planning, medical services, medical security, and comprehensive management, strived to achieve standardized management and use of population health information, and better served the masses with medical and health service informationization.
Accelerating the pace of rural Internet construction is the proper meaning of accelerating the popularization of information services and allowing more people to share the fruits of development. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "It is necessary to speed up the construction of information infrastructure and the popularization of information services, focus on poverty-stricken areas and border ethnic areas, reduce the cost of use, and make it available, affordable and well used by ordinary people." To this end, China has increased investment and expanded the effective coverage of optical fiber networks and broadband networks in rural areas; Aim at the main direction of agricultural modernization, improve the level of agricultural production intelligence and network management, and help farmers increase their income; Solidly carry out online poverty alleviation actions, explore the potential of the Internet in precision poverty alleviation and precision poverty alleviation, let more people in need use the Internet, let agricultural products go out of the countryside through the Internet, and continuously enhance the endogenous motivation of self-development of poor areas and poor people.
Information is an important basis for national governance, and it should play an important role in promoting the modernization of national governance system and governance capacity. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader stressed: "We should strengthen Internet thinking, make use of the advantages of flat, interactive and fast Internet to promote scientific government decision-making, accurate social governance and efficient public services, and use information technology to better perceive social situation, smooth communication channels and assist decision-making and administration." Use information technology to promote the openness of government affairs and party affairs, speed up e-government, build an online service platform that integrates the whole process, use big data to promote the protection and improvement of people’s livelihood, and promote "Internet+education", "Internet+medical care" and "internet plus culture", so that people can run less errands and more data, and constantly improve the level of equalization, generalization and convenience of public services. The reform highlights such as "do it online at once" and "don’t meet for approval" are numerous and welcomed by the masses.
Cyberspace is the common spiritual home of hundreds of millions of people. Cyberspace is clear and the ecology is good, which is in line with the interests of the people. Cyberspace is smoky and ecological deterioration, which is not in the interests of the people. No one wants to live in a space full of falsehood, fraud, attack, abuse, terror, pornography and violence. In this regard, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "We should be responsible to the society and the people, strengthen the governance of cyberspace according to law, strengthen the construction of online content, strengthen positive online publicity, cultivate a positive and healthy online culture, nourish people’s hearts and society with socialist core values and outstanding achievements of human civilization, and achieve full positive energy and high theme, so as to create a clean and positive cyberspace for the majority of netizens, especially teenagers." It is necessary to speed up the construction of a security system for key information infrastructure, build a network security defense line, ensure the security of personal information, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of citizens in cyberspace.
"The people’s yearning for a better life is our goal." General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has repeatedly stressed that the development of online information business must implement the people-centered development thought and take the promotion of people’s well-being as the starting point and the end result of information development. The practice of building a network power in China proves that network information technology is playing an increasingly important role in promoting economic and social development, modernizing the national governance system and governance capacity, and meeting people’s growing needs for a better life. We should take the Internet as a new way to understand the masses, get close to them and solve problems for them, and simultaneously promote the strategic deployment of building a network power and the goal of "two hundred years", so that the people can have more sense of gain, happiness and security in the development of informatization and work together to realize the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
