Positive internet power

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, stressed the need for the country to grasp the historic opportunity of the information revolution and step up its efforts to be an internet power at a national conference on the work of cybersecurity and informatization held from Friday to Saturday in Beijing.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, China has achieved historic progress in the development of cybersecurity and informatization and formed a model of cyberspace governance with Chinese characteristics. Despite this, there are still various challenges to be overcome.

It is absolutely necessary, as Xi stressed, for the Party and government to clearly understand the Party's leadership, the strategic objective of building China into a network power, the principles and requirements of the objective, the proposal for global governance over the development of the internet, and the basic methods for cybersecurity and informatization work.