Beijing To Speed Up The Capital To Build Digital City Digital City Construction

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Beijing residents query information in the information kiosk

HC TV Network Recently, the Beijing municipal government issued 2009-2012 upgrading information infrastructure plan, first proposed the building of the country, “urban-rural integration of digital city” goal. Digital City in the Construction

Born out of “Digital Earth” concept, digital city construction include: the Internet Broadband , HD Digital TV And mobile multimedia systems, information, and subway information infrastructure, third-generation mobile Communicate And broadband wireless access, government information technology infrastructure and Electronic Business and other fields.

“Digital Beijing”, “Digital Shanghai”, “Digital Xiamen,” the city is actively involved in developed areas of digital city construction. As early as 1997, the Beijing Municipal Information Office was established. In 1998, “Capital Window” website. In 1999, Beijing proposed the building of “Digital Beijing” three-step target :2000-2010, the formation of “Digital Beijing” basic framework. 2011-2020, increase capital Digital Level. 2021-050 years, will build Beijing into a modern international digital city. Since the new century, Beijing to speed up the pace of urban construction figures put forward the “Digital Olympics” goal, opening the wireless Zhengwuzhuanwang … … almost every year, construction of digital cities, special initiatives.

As of June, the number reached 1037 million Internet users in Beijing, the Internet penetration rate reached 61.2%, of which 490 million mobile Internet users, Internet users in the forefront of the scale in the country. “Capital Window” Government portals group, the Urban Transport Card, Digital Beijing toll pass, 3G network services?? “Beijing starts construction of digital cities in the nation.” Economic and Information Technology Commission, Beijing, public information management everywhere Long Wu Gang Hua, said: “This upgrade program is the first building in the government documents raised the number of urban and rural cities.”

Wu Gang Hua pointed out that the urban-rural integration is different from previous digital city digital city construction, more emphasis on urban and rural simultaneously focus on improving information in rural infrastructure, increased information and training; in the city focused on information to deepen applications, improve service levels. Digital City Center urban-rural integration is Huimin, should include information infrastructure, provide economic information service, rich people’s daily life and other fields.

Urban and rural people to benefit

Beijing Economic and Information Committee random survey, the current Beijing computer penetration is less than 20% of the country, Internet rate will be lower.

In promoting the integration of urban and rural figures in the process of urban construction, information infrastructure is a vital part, including the Internet and public service facilities both. Wu Gang of China that the information infrastructure to improve the focus should fall on the village. “Village of information infrastructure, use of cost information skills of lagging behind, we propose the integration of urban and rural construction is to reduce the number of cities in urban and rural digital divide, to narrow the urban and rural distance.”

As material conditions, use of information costs, farmers awareness and other reasons, lack of rural information infrastructure. Continue Villages Radio, telephone, television, the first half of this year, Beijing achieved all administrative villages villages fiber-optic network, broadband network has covered the city for more than 95% of administrative villages. Pinggu, Daxing, Huairou, Miyun and some other counties have launched a wireless broadband households in the pilot work, exploration information “villages and peasant households,” the channel, low-cost access to the Internet to promote peasant family.

Panggezhuang Town, Daxing District, Lao Jia Licun of Watermelon, watermelon crops, over the years and his wife lives on the second half of last year joined the online sale started Daxing watermelon watermelon network. Lao Jia Xiao Hehe, said: “Internet sales, but were uncommon Watermelon, Watermelon is our greatest advantage is the visibility improved, watermelon sell better. Before selling up to earn tens of thousands of watermelon a year, a year after the Internet can earn 67 million a. “increased sales drive the expansion of production scale, and now Laojia watermelon plant to grow in size from 8 acres to 13 acres of land, with greenhouse cultivation, produce 5 kilograms.

There will be more like Lao Jia such farmers will actually enjoy the benefits of urban and rural integration of digital city.

Recently, Beijing Economic and Information Technology Commission launched a “computer-home network and the countryside” as the main contents of the “information three rural areas” project to improve access to the Internet penetration rate in rural areas, the villages are built and digital libraries, mobile training classrooms, rural management information system, modern agricultural information platform, and information Huimin facilities. Vice president of Digital China, Peking University Research

Lun Wu said: “Digital City and Urban Information is an important symbol of urban modernization, and the level of protection for sustainable development. After the completion of rural integration of digital city to narrow the digital structure, improve the overall level of the digital city. “