Xi stresses positive internet environment
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Chinese officials shall use the internet well to better understand and serve the people, revealed General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), also Chinese president, while presiding over a symposium on cyber security on April 19. Xi also urged a close link between internet and real economy.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also head of the central internet security and informatization leading group, presides over a symposium on cyberspace security and informatization in Beijing, April 19, 2016. |
Value online public opinions
The CPC has a tradition to nurture close links with ordinary people. The Party considers the Mass Line a key weapon in China's revolutionary days and an effective governance tool in recent decades.
Accessed by 700 million Chinese users, the internet has become a major platform for public discourse. Officials should use the internet more often to learn what are the concerns and wishes of the people, Xi noted.
There should be greater tolerance and patience for internet users, Xi said, adding that officials need to draw sincere suggestions and feedback from the internet, help clarify public misconceptions about certain matters, dissolve public grudges and grievances, and correct their inaccurate perceptions.
For well-meant criticism raised on the internet, be it aimed at the overall work of the Party and the state or at individual officials, be it gentle or harsh-sounding, Xi said. "We will not only welcome it, but also carefully study it for future reference."
Deepen the integration of internet and real economy
At the symposium, Xi stressed that the new development concepts of innovation, coordination, green development, opening up and sharing, should be implemented during the internet's development.
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Xi called for the in-depth integration of the internet and real economy. Even so, the internet can help propel innovation, advance economic restructuring, and shift the economic development model.
Xi said R&D investment should target technology that the country needs the most, and the industrialization of the technology should be improved.
"Unlike Microsoft, Intel, Google and Apple, Chinese internet enterprises do not cooperate well with each other on research, which is one of the reasons why there is a huge gap between China and other countries," Xi added.
He suggested establishing alliances between academic and research institutions and enterprises to enhance coordination. Moreover, a talent system with global competitiveness should be established.
Chinese internet enterprises have made significant contributions to realizing the stable growth of the country's economy, stimulating employment as well as improving the people's livelihood, said Xi.
Xi promised a favorable environment for the sound development of these companies and expressed a sincere welcome to foreign enterprises “as long as they abide by Chinese laws and regulations."
Secure the internet’s healthy development
Security is a prerequisite for internet development. Xi urged relevant departments to speed up the development of a system to protect the key information infrastructure and enhance the country’s internet defense capabilities.
A clean and healthy cyber space is in the interests of the people, while a foul and unhealthy one serves no one, said Xi. He added that the efficient management of cyberspace will create an orderly and positive environment for people to express their opinions.
A tolerant and open attitude toward online public concerns does not go against efforts to manage cyberspace, to regulate it in line with the law and fend off harmful activities such as terrorism, violence and pornography, noted Professor Xie Chuntao with the CPC Central Committee Party School.
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