Xi: Build China into a cyber power
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President Xi Jinping has called for China to become a “cyber power,” after chairing the first meeting of a group focused on Internet security yesterday.
“Efforts should be made to build our country into a cyber power,” he said. “We should be fully aware of the importance and urgency of Internet security and informatization.”
Xi heads the central Internet security and informatization leading group, with 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, the group’s deputy heads.
At the meeting, Xi said Internet security and informatization is a major strategic issue concerning China’s security and development as well as its people’s lives and work.
The group is designed to lead and coordinate Internet security and informatization work among different sectors, as well as draft strategies, development plans and policies in the field, Xi said.
Members of the group adopted the group’s rules and plan for this year at the meeting.
China has the world’s largest number of Internet users but lags behind in development of Internet technologies, Xi said.
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 percent of them are from the countryside.
“We should be aware of the importance and urgency of Internet security,” Xi said.
China has to balance its needs of developing IT technologies and safeguarding Internet security, he 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.
“Cyberspace should be made clean and chipper. No Internet safety means no national security. No informatization means no modernization,” Xi said.
He 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.
Building a cyber power calls for domestically developed solid technology, rich and comprehensive information services, prosperous cyber cultures, sound infrastructure, high-caliber talents working in Internet security and information, as well as international cooperation, he said.
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