Developing cloud computing is important for sharing of information and innovation resources, helps reduce the costs of starting businesses, and creates new industries and consumption hot spots. It is also expected to contribute to building an innovative country.
In order to promote the innovative development of cloud computing, the State Council offered the following opinions on Jan 30:
Development goal
By 2017, cloud computing should be adopted in key areas, and an almost sound industrial chain should be created to lead the development of relevant industries.
By 2020, the adoption of cloud computing should have gained ground, and its service ability should reach an international standard; core technologies should be adopted; and key cloud-computing enterprises demonstrating global competitiveness should be established.
Additionally, a special security inspection system and a regulation system should be established, and the ability to research and analyze big data should be improved. Cloud computing should become an important part of China’s informatization — taking informatization to a new level for social and economic development.
Main tasks
Improving cloud computing services by assisting information and technology enterprises to become suppliers with cloud computing products and services.
Improve the self-innovation ability of cloud computing by integrating research related to cloud computing with application research, technology research and development, market cultivation and relevant industry policies.
Explore new development models for e-government platforms based on cloud computing by integrating and rebuilding e-government information systems with cloud computing technology.
Further develop and utilize big data by establishing reform pilot areas for open public records.
