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CONSTRUCTION of Shanghai’s information infrastructure had reached advanced international standards and IT had grown to become a “First Pillar” industry, according to a leading city expert.
Shanghai Municipal Informatization Commission deputy-director Liu Jian said by 2010 – when Shanghai hosts the giant World Expo – the city “will basically reach the main indicators” for a modern technology-based city.
Speaking at the Go Global Shanghai IT Youth Entrepreneur international seminar onsite at the CeBIT Asia exhibition, Mr Liu said growth in the IT industry continue to outstrip the already fast growing broader economy.
“In the information industry, the growth of the software industry maintains more than 50 per cent (annually) in five successive years, growing as a new industrial category with a certain scale,” Mr Liu said.
“The ‘Eleventh Five-Year plan of Shanghai National Economy and Social Information’ painted a good economic blueprint for development in Shanghai for the next five years,” he said.
By the end of 2010, Mr Liu said, “Shanghai will become an outstanding city featuring information technology innovation and application capability.” By then the city expected to be internationally competitive, making it a secure ICT hub for the Asia-Pacific region.
In the meantime, the Eleventh Five Year Plan encourages enterprises to foster closer relations with offshore partners, to improve international co-operation.
“At the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, (the city) is to display an image of a modern metropolis … to lay a solid foundation for Shanghai to stride toward (becoming) an information society,” Mr Liu said.
The Go Global Shanghai IT Youth International Business Meeting was co-sponsored by the CeBIT Asia organisers, and Communist Youth League Shanghai Committee and the Shanghai Municipal Informatization League, as well as Chinese online business directory service C114.com.
Hosting the event was Dr Pearl Wang Haoqing from the Shanghai Jiaotong University Institute of Global Communications Research.
Dr Wang, who is also a Council Member of the Shanghai Informatization Youth Association, said the “Go Global” theme of the event emphasised a two-way trading relationship.
Where in the past the term Go Global meant for Chinese companies to take their products to offshore markets, it now was recognised as a term that included encouraging foreign firms to come to China.
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