The development of information technology presents four major trends

Mr. Yang Xueshan, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Chinese Informatization Centenary Association attended the symposium on “The Trend of Information Technology Development and Leading Practice” and delivered a speech on the development trend of information technology. Yang Xueshan stated in his speech that it is necessary to develop economically and socially. The demand for applications depends on the trend of information technology development. He believes that the development of China's information technology presents four major trends:

First, information technology has formed a new system. This system must meet the needs of economic and social transition and become a technical support point in the economic and social transformation. At present, economic and social development is moving toward a new stage, and its core is that manufacturing, management, and services will move toward a path that is “fully automated and highly intelligent”. This is also the essence of the concepts of the "third industrial revolution", the "second machine age", and the "information society." Today, information technology has taken on this transformational task and has formed a new system. This system includes six aspects of processing technology, transmission technology, sensing technology, display and reaction technology, content technology, and system technology. Software technology is a subset of system technology.

Second, information technology must be combined with industrial technology, management, and people in order to provide better support for economic and social development. As a result, information technology is moving in the direction of convergence, and major business opportunities will arise in convergence.

Third, information technology develops in the direction of overall relevance rather than fragmentation.

Fourth, information technology attaches great importance to innovation. At the same time, we must also look at the nature of the new concept and focus on innovation and inheritance. At present, there are few information technologies that are new technologies, and many are related to past technologies. Therefore, when dealing with new concepts in information technology, we must look at its essence.