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Information Technology Widely Adopted in Shanghai
Shanghai, China's leading industrial and commercial city, has made remarkable progress in building itself an international information center in the near future.
The metropolis has established five major information networks over the past four years, including a foreign trade data network, a social security network and a community service network.
The city has also set up 20 key information systems in such areas as urban planning, finance, employment, and industrial and commercial administration.
Latest statistics shows the city has opened 300 websites on the Internet and more than one million of its 13 million residents have become Internet users.
Shanghai has listed the information technology industry as one of the key growth areas of local economy.
Over the past few years, it has turned out integrated circuits, computers, mobile telecommunications facilities and a series of other profitable information technology products.
Today, Shanghai produces one-fifth of China's integrated circuits, one-third of telecommunications equipment, and 30 percent of IC cards, according to available latest statistics.
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