The 14th Five-Year Plan for the development of the information and communication industry

Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The "Plan" includes four major parts, 26 development priorities, and nearly 30,000 words, describing the development blueprint of the information and communication industry, and is a guiding document for accelerating the construction of a network power and digital China in the next five years, promoting the high-quality development of the information and communication industry, guiding the behavior of market players, and allocating government public resources.

Compared with the previous five-year plans, this "Plan" on the one hand further highlights the function and positioning of the information and communication industry: it is a strategic, basic and leading industry to build a new national digital infrastructure, provide network and information services, and fully support economic and social development. On the other hand, it further strengthens the relevant requirements of adhering to the new development concept and adhering to the system concept: First, the "Plan" comprehensively connects the national strategic conception and related planning system on the new development stage, new development concept and new development pattern, puts forward new ideas for high-quality development of the industry, and sets 20 quantitative development goals in 6 categories; Second, the "Plan" identified 26 development priorities and 21 key projects in five aspects, clearly proposed the key tasks of strengthening cross-regional and cross-industry coordination for the first time, and further clarified the focus and starting point of the implementation of the task by increasing the number of projects.

The "Plan" ADAPTS to the new situation of the expansion of the connotation and structural changes of the information and communication industry, firmly grasps the theme of high-quality development, and presents the following highlights:

First, the scope of the connotation of the "Plan" shows a trend of continuous expansion compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan". Infrastructure has expanded from traditional telecommunications network facilities with information transmission as the core to a new digital infrastructure system that integrates perception, transmission, storage, computing and processing, including a new generation of communication network infrastructure such as "double gigabit" networks, data and computing facilities such as data centers, and converged infrastructure such as the industrial Internet. Network and information services have also expanded from telecom services, Internet information services, Internet of Things services, satellite communication services, cloud computing and big data services for government, enterprise and public users to new forms of digital production and digital governance services such as industrial cloud services, smart medical care and intelligent transportation.

Second, the "planning" systematically summarizes the remarkable achievements made in the development of the industry, and also sorts out the shortcomings still existing at this stage. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, China's information and communication industry as a whole maintained a steady and rapid development trend, the industry's comprehensive strength to a higher level, network supply and service capabilities significantly enhanced, industry management and reform and opening up continued to deepen, and security security capabilities continued to improve, laying a good foundation for the development of the next five years. At the same time, in order to meet the new requirements of high-quality economic and social development in the new stage and meet the people's growing new needs for a better digital life, there are still some weaknesses and weaknesses in four aspects: regional layout of information infrastructure, integrated application of information and communication technology and industrial ecology, industry management capacity, cyber security and emergency support. This will also be an important direction for the information and communication industry to strengthen its weaknesses during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.

Third, the "Plan" summarizes the new situation facing the industry "14th Five-Year Plan", and believes that the opportunities are still greater than the challenges. The information and communication industry is facing five "new" situations, namely, new mission, new momentum, new space, new requirements and new challenges, which is a comprehensive judgment based on the national macro environment, the industry's own positioning and the development trend of the industry. From the perspective of macro environment, China's development is still in an important period of strategic opportunities, at the same time, the international environment is becoming increasingly complex, instability and uncertainty are increasing significantly, the national development will enter a stage of high-quality development, will accelerate the construction of a "double cycle" new development pattern, industry development must be integrated into this strategic overall situation, assume the corresponding mission responsibilities. From the perspective of the industry itself, with the acceleration of the integration of information and communication technology and economy and society, the status and role of the information and communication industry in economic and social development is more prominent, and the new stage, new characteristics and new national strategy arrangements are more prominent. The ICT industry is required to undertake the historical mission of overcoming technical difficulties in related fields, cultivating and strengthening a new domestic consumer market, and promoting the close linkage of the global ICT sector, so as to become a new base for consolidating the digital society, and a new driving force for meeting the needs of the people for a better life and driving a new round of endogenous growth. In the process of accelerating the construction of new digital infrastructure and supporting the digital transformation of the whole society, the industry will open up new growth space, and at the same time, it will also face some new requirements and new challenges in the cross-domain collaborative supervision of emerging business forms and the improvement of network security guarantee capabilities.