The National Internet Information Office releases the "National Informationization Development Report".

On July 30th, the National Informationization Development Report was released at a conference in Beijing. The report adheres to the important thought of General Secretary Xi Jinping on building a strong internet country as guidance, thoroughly implements the important deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council on informationization development, systematically summarizes the achievements of informationization development in China, analyzes the new situation and challenges facing it, clarifies the key tasks for the next step, and provides ideological consensus and guidance for promoting informationization development in China. The report points out that 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the strategic goal of building a strong internet country and the 30th anniversary of China's full access to the international Internet. The convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Twentieth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has bestowed new missions and tasks on informationization development. Deepening informationization development is a strategic choice to firmly grasp the historical opportunity of the information revolution, seize new advantages in international competition, meet the urgent need to cultivate and develop new quality productivity, promote high-quality economic development, satisfy the internal requirements of guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods and meeting the new expectations of the people for a better life, and strongly support the modernization of the country's governance system and governance capacity. The report shows that in 2024, various regions and departments have thoroughly implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, actively planned reform and innovation measures, consolidated policy resources, and cooperated in a coordinated manner, steadily advancing the major tasks, key projects, and priority actions of the "Fourteenth Five-Year National Informationization Plan". Implementation, innovation development capacity has significantly increased, empowering development roles are increasingly prominent, inclusive development effects continue to be released, the foundation for secure development is constantly strengthened, the results of open development are increasingly fruitful, the level of national informationization development has reached a new level, providing strong momentum and solid support for creating a new era and new journey of building a strong internet country. The report analyzes the results of a network survey on the development of national informationization in 2024. The survey results show that the interviewed netizens generally believe that in 2024, informationization has played a more important role in innovating learning and working methods, improving the level of life services, enhancing public governance capabilities, and the people have a more obvious sense of achievement, happiness, and security; interviewed enterprises stated that in 2024, they strengthened information technology innovation and talent cultivation, actively planned new products, applications, and businesses, continuously improving the competitiveness of enterprises.