Building an E-service-oriented Government
Zhu Yan
New Beijing & Great Olympics Beijing is a world-famous
city with over 3000 years’ history as a city and over 850 years’ history as a capital. Its population has
reached 14 million.
The city’s GDP in 2003
exceeded 360 billion RMB.
Beijing will host the 2008 Olympic Games. It will present
the whole world with a successful Olympics.
Digital Life In Beijing
For Every 100 families there are 68 computers in Beijing. Internet users account for 28%. 710,000 families are using
broad band.
The number of netizens
is above 4 million.
Fixed telephone subscribers total 7,100,000. Mobile phone users total 1,200,000.
For Every 100 urban residents there are 150 color TV sets.
Digital Life In Beijing
In 2003, there were 20,000
visitors to the website of Beijing Municipal Urban Planning Commission. They used the internet to validate the developers’ certificates and licenses.
Digital Life In Beijing
Now, there are up
to 2,560,000 personal income tax declarations online in a month.
Digital Life In Beijing
In 2003, 1,200,000 people visited the website of Beijing Municipal Traffic
Administration Bureau to check their traffic violation records.
Over 1,000,000 drivers checked
their driving records.
In 2003, mobile traffic information
equipment automatically recorded 642,000 illegal actions such as failing to stop, illegal parking, running red lights and speeding.
There are seats designated for traffic broadcasting station at the
headquarters of Beijing Public Security Bureau and Beijing Traffic Administration Bureau. The officer is ready to provide real-time on-road information to 2,000,000 drivers all over the city.
Digital Life In Beijing
Digital Beijing Information
Booths can offer informationproviding services ranging from eating, drinking and entertaining to shopping.
Other services such as cash
recharging, discounting, buying tickets, sending and receiving emails are improving gradually.
Digital Life In Beijing Among the top 50
well-known e-commerce websites in China, there
Beijing Other city
are 35 running in Beijing.
Since the second half of 2003, e-commerce
transactions have maintained a rapid and stable growth which was 3 times faster than that in the same period in 2002.
The trade amount of e-commerce in 2003
exceeded 3 billion RMB.
Digital Life In Beijing
Some Beijing local
special products such as Pinggu peaches, Huairou chestnuts, Daxing watermelons and Fangshan persimmons are being sold overseas through the internet.
Digital Life In Beijing Some tourist websites offering
wide-ranging and picturesque information are being opened gradually. Everyone here can get access to the information of those places of interest, or reserve hotels or get in touch with Beijing’s folk-culture through Internet anytime and anywhere.
Digital Life In Beijing
Beijing’s Campus Network Project is progressing smoothly; it
has been set up in 1,400 primary and secondary schools citywide.
During last year’ s SARS outbreak ,
thanks to the broadcasted or televised “On-air Class” and “Online Education”, students kept studying at home while in-school classes had to be suspended.
An agri-technology long-distance education website has been
put into use in rural areas, which widens the farmers’ horizon, improves their farming techniques, and offers more opportunity for their prosperity.
Digital Life In Beijing Based on the public information platform of the
city, the social security info-system has been launched, spearheaded by medical insurance and expected to expand later on to social security, health, education and housing fund.
The online medical care system is now serving
more and more insured people. The number is expected to reach 5,000,000 this year.
Digital Life In Beijing
Beijing has launched a series of non-emergency
hotlines, such as the mayor’s hotline. More than 15,000 calls are received in each day.
The mayor’s hotline (12345) and community
service hotline (96156) received 2,000 calls every day asking for update policy information or for other services.
Digital Life In Beijing
The community service system consists of a
community service website (www.bjcs.gov.cn) and a community service hotline (96156), distributing at three levels (streets, districts and the city), which integrates 1750 service providers (including commerce, food and recreation, maintenance, household services) offering more than 200 services of 14 categories.
Information Infrastructure
By now, Beijing has laid
350,000 kilometers’ of local network relay optical cable, nearly 450,000 kilometers’ of line-in optical cable and 130, 000 kilometers’ of long-distance optical cable.
Information Infrastructure Beijing has 120,000 WWW websites, which make
up for more than 1/5 of the total number of websites in China.
Beijing’s Official Website Portal has 147
subsidiary websites,where over 2,400 documents and application forms can be
downloaded. Beijing official Website Portal is among the top websites nationwide.
Information Infrastructure Beijing’s Space
Information Project has achieved initial success. Remote sensing and digital mapping are accessible. On this basis, Beijing has successfully accomplished the Digital Green Belt Project.
Digital Beijing & Digital Olympics “Digital Beijing” is the foundation of “Digital Olympics” “Digital Olympics” is the goal of “Digital Beijing” in 2008. It is four years away from the year 2008, which is a vital
and strategic period for speeding up the development of information technology and accelerating the construction of an information service platform.
The Target Of Digital Olympics
Four anys:
anyone, at any time, at any
Olympic-specific places, through any information terminal unit, can get acces to affordable and customized
information services with no
language problem.
Digital City & Digital Olympics
Digital divide
E-government and
government transformation
Information security
Harmonious development
of informationization