China E-government Industry Development Prospect and Investment Forecast Report, 2013-2017

In recent years, China e-government construction has been steadily enhancing; its managing level has been gradually improving and its application effects have been growing showing up, which vigorously promote transformation of government's political functions. E-government has been an important tool to enhance governing ability, and a necessary way to build a service type government. In 2011, what China's e-government achievements are listed below:

The organization system is gradually improved. Up to the end of 2011, informatization (e-government) leading groups and their administrative offices had been established in more than 90% of central government departments, 100% provincial, 5% municipal and 90% county/district government departments. Besides, many information centers or similar supporting agencies were set up in many regions and departments.

The infrastructure is becoming more and more perfect. Up to the end of 2011, e-government network had covered 90% of cities and 80% of counties or regions. 100% provincial governments, 98% municipal governments and 85% county or district governments had built their own official websites.

The effects of application is emerging. Up to the end of 2011, a great many of remarkable results had been achieved, such as population management, corporation management and "right transparent" movement, etc. Government websites become a very important window for different level departments to release news, offer affair services and conduct interaction activities between officials and common people. With great help and promotion of the State, great progress has been made in China e-government affairs, and its market size continues to enlarge. In 2011, China e-government market maintained a steady growth, and its market size achieved 118.5 billion Yuan, with an increase of 16.80% over the previous year.

Currently, China's e-government is still at the preliminary development stage, thus there are some problems in e-government industry, for instance, the overall effects of promoting government's management and realizing service innovation are not obvious; the development of e-government affairs in central and western of China is still lagging behind; information sharing and business collaboration affairs across departments and regions should be strengthened and so on.

Although there are vary kinds of problems in e-government market, the policy support from the State will continue to promote its rapid development.

In March, 2011, "Twelfth Five-year" Plan of National Economy and Social Development proposed to forcefully promote the construction of e-government affairs, to enhance the interconnection among key political information systems and information sharing and business collaboration affairs; to construct and perfect the networks for the administrative examination and approval, online visiting and audit systems, as well as to strengthen system construction for market supervision, social security, important information of medical treatment and health care; to perfect the fundamental information resource systems for geography, population, corporate body, finance, tax, statistics and so on; to strengthen the information integration, then to regulate its collecting and release procedures. "Twelfth Five-year" Plan of National e-government Development,2011-2015 worked out by MIIT(Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) have been discussed and reviewed by many ministries and commissions. Now, it's in examination and approval stage. Many province and cities launch works on drawing out "Twelfth Five-year" Plan of e-government. Some of them have released the planning and carried them out, such as Shandong, Qingdao, Zhengzhou, Qinhuangdao, and Huizhou. Many of those plans emphasize the importance of integrating information resources, and generally propose new IT technologies to apply Internet and cloud computing.

In 2012, An important starting point and stance of e-government construction is to offer public service for the public, so it's very necessary first to build service-oriented government. Nowadays, due to the transformation of economic development model, government system reform, social management way, Internet democracy and government management supervision, high requirements are presented to the government. Under the new circumstance, if we want to do well in e-government construction, new theories must be put into use, so as to build new type of district e-government development models. Through constructing e-government, government services and management efficiency can be enhanced and social management and public renovation can be promoted.

It's estimated that "wisdom government" will be a key content in "wisdom city". G-cloud and mobile government will spring up, so government departments should attach great importance to information security problems of new generation IT technology's application. In 2012, It's predicted that China's e-government market size will approximately approach to 140 billion Yuan.

Here, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to State Information Center, Bureau of Statistics of China, International Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, Tsinghua University Library, Development Research Center of the State Council and Beijing Essence Forward Research Center, for their great support when we conduct this report!

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Qianzhan Business Information Co., Ltd. Industry Research Center
Research Team of E-government Industry