Recently to attend a meeting, workers in the letter to Minister Li said that the total size of China’s electronic information industry after the United States, ranking second in the world, the next step the field of information and communications would be nurtured as the six new pillar industries.

Li is attending the China Academy of Engineering, “the next 20 years of engineering science and technology with economic and social development”, a series of reports at the meeting so said, he had said that the total size of China’s electronic information industry after the United States, ranking second in the world, computers, mobile phone, color TV and other electronic products the size of the world’s first; in the field of household appliances, China has become a truly global manufacturing base and the world’s factory; high-tech industry scale ranks third in the world and exports among the world’s top two in order to the information industry, aerospace, biomedicine, new materials, modern equipment manufacturing as the representative of the high-tech industry has become China’s industrial economic development of a new growth point.

On the status of the communications industry, he said that the total scale of China’s telecommunications network, the total number of telephone users, mobile phone users and the total number of the total number of Internet users, ranking first in the world. As of the end of June 2009, fixed phone users reached 330 million mobile phone users reached 695 million. Scale reached 338 million Internet users, including broadband Internet access to basic telecommunications enterprises reached 93.48 million subscribers, the Web site in China registered a total of 3.06 million. National telephone calls to reach 99.21 percent share of the administrative villages, towns have Internet access capability to reach 97%. Built across the country, connecting the world’s information and communication network, initially formed the basic framework for the national information highway.

He also believes that a wide range of information technology penetration and depth of applications will bring about a lot of new growth. Since the end of last year, some large international companies to “smart Earth” concept, is actually a new generation of networks and information technology, the depth of applications, information technology and industrialization of the depth of integration. This idea has attracted worldwide attention. We are “intelligent Earth” and other strategies for prospective studies should be carried out with the situation closely, in-depth information technology and industrialization to promote integration, launch “sensor network” research and development applications, actively develop a strategic new industries.

He said, “Our preliminary consideration in their choice of information and communication, advanced equipment manufacturing, new materials, new energy and energy-saving environmental protection, bio-industry and high-end producer services such as six areas of cultivation as a new pillar industry in the areas of focus. Which, in the information telecommunications industries, focusing on cultivating and strengthening a new generation of mobile communication, next-generation Internet, optical broadband access, new displays, integrated circuits, digital audio-visual, software, digital content, satellite applications, the emerging industrial clusters. “