With the high-speed development of science and technology as well as social economy, and the rapid growth of cultural knowledge in modern society, information becomes the important cognitive object and the strategic resource day by day. To a certain extent the success or failure of all kinds of competitions in today's society is decided by mastering information. The basic value of information as a resource has become more and more obvious.The openness of government information is an important content of democracy and the rule of law in the information era. Simon—an expert who studies politics regards openness and participation as two essential factors of modern democracy. Openness is the prerequisite of participation. Without the openness of government information or people's right to know, it is impossible for the people to participate. So the openness of government information is one of the representative system's democratic cornerstones. It has already been a world trend to establish the openness of government information system, in which opening information law plays a key role.Comrade Jiang Ze-min once said: "carry out the openness of government information conscientious." at the Sixteenth Representative Conference of the Communist Party of China. For resent years, with the strong furthering of the all...
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