When Most Quickly Developing Technique Meets with Most Quickly Developing Country: Towards Understanding Internet in China

摘要

To a large extent, governments and organizations worldwide have recognized that either the broader information communication technologies (ICTs) sector or specifically with respect to Internet, are becoming crucial components of global commerce and human society. However, discussions on the socioeconomic impacts of ICTs and Internet have been taken place for several years across nearly all the countries and it is far from clear that what they should be, due in large part to the inherently multi-dimensional and rapid natures. With the consideration that Internet performs one of the most vivid and important roles under "ICTs" umbrella, in this paper we attempt to concentrate on the insightful understanding towards the impacts of Internet in China. We mainly make a quantitative analysis to the social impacts from the perspective of humans on a domestic survey basis. Moreover, several fundamental observations along with its growth and socio-economic development are also extensively investigated, and motivate us to further propose many corresponding suggestions to achieve harmonious development of both the society and Internet itself.