NDRC and MIIT Provide Detail for 'Internet Plus' Action Plan
On June 26, at a meeting hosted by the State Council Information Office, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) Vice-Minister Lin Nianxiu and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) Vice-Minister Huai Jinpeng provided details on the Guiding Opinions of the "Internet Plus" Action Plan, which was approved by the State Council executive meeting in Beijing on June 24.
The Guiding Opinions drafting was led by the NDRC and ten other ministries, including MIIT, Ministry of Finance and the Cyberspace Administration of China, beginning in March 2015.
According to Lin, the document, which includes general requirements and targets, detailed action plans, and supportive policies, aims to achieve rapid, high-quality economic growth and industry development, taking advantage of China's scale and applications of the Internet to drive deep and comprehensive integration between the Internet and the real economy.
11 "Internet Plus" actions were specified in the document, including:
- entrepreneurship and innovation
- collaborative manufacturing
- modern agriculture
- smart energy
- inclusive finance
- public services
- efficient logistics
- e-commerce
- convenient transportation
- green ecology
- artificial intelligence
40 key development tasks were also outlined based on the 11 actions.
In addition, the Guiding Opinions included 25 relevant supportive measures, categorized into five arts:
- Policy Environment: eliminate unreasonable mechanisms and policies, ease Internet-integrated product and service market access, and promote entrepreneurship and innovation
- New-Generation Information Infrastructure Development: accelerate research and development of new hardware engineering, such as chips and high-end servers, as well as applications of cloud computing, big data
- Public Resources Sharing: enhance public services and start pilot programs for public access to government data, encourage online access to national innovation platforms by small and medium enterprises
- Business Operation Support: increase government procurement of cloud services, innovate credit products and services, pilot equity crowdfunding
- Safety Regulations: improve risk assessment, safeguard network and information security, and protect fair competition
Huai also added that the implementation timeline of the Guiding Opinions would be an initial phase by 2018 and a full completion by 2025, which was designed to be in line with the China Manufacturing 2025 strategy.
