| As an important means of competition, criterion has merged into all fields of information technology in the background of knowledge economy and information era. With the ongoing improvement of market competition model, advanced criteria have been key points for competition as well as significant measure for constituting market economy criterion. Various countries passionately draw up their criterion, and try to make it into international norm. Rules and orders represented by criterion means different benefit allocation for various people. Take the advantage of advanced science and technology, developed countries occupied leading position in the area of norm establishment. Faced with those acting information technology and criterion, developing countries have two choices. One is compatible progressive strategy. They have to cater to the market need in a short time, and obtain benefit. The other one is detruding all the criterion. It means that those developing countries ignore original norm, and make their criteria into acting norm. By means of the strategy they will realize great-leap-forward development.On the base of brief definition information industry and the criterion of information technology, the paper emphasis on discuss the economic effect of standardization. The economic characteristics of criterion embody on the use and production of information product. The character of China population and market create a well condition for the acting of economic characteristic, such as network effect. Through the analysis of economic characteristics, the author put forward that criterion is more important than technology in the field of information technology. It also put forward the standardization strategy for China information technology. |