加快发展信息产业促进社会经济持续发展

以构建高效信息传输网络为代表的全球信息化浪潮正在蓬勃兴起。这是现代科学技术发展对人类社会的一次革命性变革。在即将来临的信息社会中，信息资源将成为人类生产资料的第一要素。从世界范围看，信息产业从传统的第三产业中分离出来，成为一种独立的新兴产业的趋势已日益明显。信息产业可以成为中国跨世纪发展的支柱产业和具有持久效能的新经济增长点。加快发展信息产业，也是中国根据自身的国情，建立资源节约型的国民经济体系，实现“两个转变”和社会经济可持续发展目标的必然选择。

IMPROVING INFORMATION INDUSTRY FOR THE STEADY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL ECONOMY

It is becoming a wide trend for the world today to build information network. It is a revolution for our society. In the coming information society, information will be the most important productive capital. In the world, the tendency that information industry is becoming a independent industry from traditional tertiary industry can be found easily. In this paper’s opinion, information industry may be the support industry and the long term economic growth pole in China during its cross century development period. It may be a consequent choice for China to get its sustainable development objective to improve information industry rapidly.