ICT in China: A strong Force to Boost Economic and Social development

Further development of science and technology in the 21st century, especially IT and life sciences, will exert a profound influence on politics, economies and cultures around the world. In the opinion of experts, digitization in the early years of the 21st century will give new impetus to IT development: integrated circuits will enter into a new phase of integrated system development, transmission capacity of the DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) communication system will be improved dramatically, and the technology and capacity of personal mobile communications and the Internet will also be enhanced to a great extent. The constant development of intellective and technological innovations, as well as combinations of material object production and intellectual production, hardware and software manufacture, traditional economies and IT technologies, will form a strong force to boost economic and social development in the 21st century.