Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-02-28
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| Xi Jinping chairs a meeting in Beijing on Feb. 17. (Photo/Xinhua) |
China's
president, Xi Jinping, will head the central internet security and
informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the
first meeting of the group on Thursday.
Xi presided
over the meeting, stressing that internet security and informatization is a
major strategic issue concerning a country's security and development as well
as people's life and work. "Efforts should be made to build our country
into a cyber power," he said.
Premier Li
Keqiang and Liu Yunshan, who are both members of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, are the
group's deputy heads.
The group
is designed to lead and coordinate internet security and informatization work
among different sectors, as well as draft national strategies, development
plans and major policies in this field, Xi said. Members of the group adopted
the group's work rules and its working plan for this year at the meeting.
China has
the world's largest number of internet users but it still lags behind in
development of Internet technologies, the president noted. The digital gap
between rural and urban areas remains large and the average bandwidth enjoyed
by each Chinese is far less than that in some developed countries, he added. By
the end of 2013, China had about 618 million internet users, but only 28.6% of
them are from the countryside.
"We
should be fully aware of the importance and urgency of internet security and
informatization," Xi said.
China has
to balance its needs of developing IT technologies and safeguarding internet
security, the president said, describing the two issues as "two wings of a
bird and two wheels of an engine."
Xi called
for innovative methods to spread mainstream values and stimulate positive
energy while maintaining proper guidance of online opinions in terms of timing,
intensity and impact. "Cyberspace should be made clean and chipper,"
Xi said.
"No
internet safety means no national security. No informatization means no
modernization," Xi said, noting that cyber information flows across
countries and steers technology, funding and talent.
According
to the president, information resources are increasingly becoming a crucial
production factor and a key part of social wealth, signaling a country's soft
and competitive power.
Xi called
for more independent innovation in core technology and the construction of
infrastructures as well as enhanced abilities to collect, process, spread,
utilize and secure information to better benefit the livelihood of the general
public.
In Xi's
view, building a cyber power calls for domestically developed solid technology,
rich and comprehensive information services, prosperous cyber cultures, sound
infrastructure, high-caliber talent working in internet security and
information, as well as international cooperation.
Xi stressed
the need for a comprehensive plan to develop IT and cyber security technology,
citing policies to support companies working in this field.
The meeting
was also told that there must be legislative efforts to draft laws and
regulations on managing information online, protection of key infrastructure
facilities, and cleaning up cyberspace. In addition, Xi called for the
fostering of a "politically firm, professionally competent and morally
upright" team.
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