| To realize modernization has been a long - cherished dream, which generations of Chinese people have yearned for over the past one - century and a half. Since the 3rd plenary session of the 11th national party congress, to realize China' s modernization in a step-by-step and phase - by - phase way becomes China' s great project in the 21st century. As China' s modernization drive advances, to accelerate modernization process on the basis of informatization emerges as the objective demand and strategy for China' s development.Since 1990s science and technology have been advancing by leaps and bounds, informatization has become an irresistible trend in the current world. As a result, the level of informatization serves as an important symbol, which is used to measure a nation' s modernization and comprehensive power. Informatization provides another unprecedented opportunity for China to develop by leaps and catch up with the developed countries. As Comrade Jiang Zemin points out: "None of the four modernizations work without informatization. " Therefore, informatization was given an unprecedented importance in the 5th plenary session of the 15th national party congress which advocated to give greater efforts to promote informatization in our national economy and society is a strategic move which covers all aspects of our modernization drive", hence we should try to achieve a leap forward in our social productive forces growth by using informatization to propel industrialization and taking advantage of the forerunners' experiences. " The 16th national party congress further emphasizes: "informatization is a logical choice if industrialization and modernization of our country are to be accelerated. " The 16th national party congress establishes the target and strategic planning to build a well - off society in an all - round way and draws an ambitious blueprint for China' s economic and social development in the first 20 years of this century. It remains Chinese people' s historical task to fundamentally accomplish industrialization, further promote informatization and accelerate modernization drive in the new stage of the new century.A nation' s informatization shall get started with its city' s informatization. Urban informatization emerges as the new theme and driving force for Chinese cities' development and their realization of modernization ahead of others, therefore, it is an important subject of imperative significance to propose and start an intensive research on the issue of urbaninformatization in China's modernization process.By insisting on Marxist basic views and methodology, guided by Deng Xiaoping theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", proceeding from the general thinking of building socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics, combining modernization theory with our on - going practice and drawing upon the informatization experience from developed countries, this article gives a comprehensive discussion and analysis on the vast fields related to urban informatization in the process of China' s modernization drive in an effort to identify the requirements and existing problems in urban informatization, form the countermeasures to informatization and serve the practice of urban informatization and modernization in the process of building a well - off society.This article, based on an overall command of the development trend of modernization and informatization, further grasps the important significance of urban informatization and gives a profound probe into such areas as environment construction, e - government, e -business, informatization of enterprises and urban information culture which are all parts of urban informatization. The purpose is to get a panorama of the informatization process of central metropolis, shape a practice system of urban informatization for building a well - off society in an all - round way and upgrade the previous understandings about modernization and informatization theories.Part one, proceeding fr...
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