From 0 to 1, and then from 1 to infinity, in many industries and application scenarios, the Internet has reshaped the lifestyle of Chinese people and subverted the original boundaries of behavior and imagination. The desire to embrace new things and the passion to forge ahead in the face of difficulties have supported the steady pace of progress, and have also made the Internet in China look magnificent today. Just like 30 years ago, we came to the eve of the explosion of new technology dividends. The most critical issue at present is how to seize the opportunity to realize the leap forward of innovation and creation again.
On April 20, 1994, with the opening of a 64K international special line, China realized full function access to the Internet, becoming the 77th member of the Internet. As time goes by, "30 years old", looking back at this special node, no one can help feeling that the Internet has brought more changes to China's development and our lives than we imagined.
"Cross the Great Wall and go to the world." This is the declaration issued by the Chinese when they first "hit the net" in the late 1980s. At that time, many countries and regions around the world had been connected to the Internet, but China had long been denied access due to non-technical barriers. From the establishment of the first X.25 packet switching network in China - CNPAC, e-mail communication with Europe and North America has been realized; After repeated negotiations and communication, China's "partial access to the Internet" channel has been replaced by a full function Internet connection line. It can be said that "China is the Internet from a narrow path". Faced with the vigilance and obstruction of developed countries, and the basic blank domestic information infrastructure, the Chinese people, unwilling to lag behind, have never given up chasing the trend and the times. The desire to embrace new things and the passion to forge ahead in the face of difficulties have supported the steady pace of progress, and have also made the Internet in China look magnificent today.
A special line that seems as slow as a snail today opens the door to a new era. In the past 30 years, China has developed into the world's largest Internet market, with the world's largest number of Internet users and mobile Internet users, and built the world's largest and technologically leading network infrastructure; In the past 30 years, from portal websites, post bar forums, instant messaging, e-commerce, to mobile payment, social media, algorithm recommendation, and Internet of Everything, China's Internet has moved from learning to imitation to independent innovation. From 0 to 1, and then from 1 to infinity, in many industries and application scenarios, the Internet has reshaped the lifestyle of Chinese people and subverted the original boundaries of behavior and imagination. At the same time, based on technological innovation and application innovation, the Internet has promoted business innovation, social governance innovation and cultural innovation in Chinese society, deeply imprinting the spirit of innovation in the fabric of national development and social progress.
"The Internet is the most dynamic area in our era, and also the biggest variable we face". In recent years, the Internet world has shown a colorful ecology, which can not help but give people the "Dickens sigh" of "the best" and "the worst" mixed. More and more voices are rethinking the "middle age trouble" of the Internet - spam and online rumors are flying all over the sky. Where is the boundary between truth and falsehood? Why do you always trade security for convenience when information leakage and big data defamiliation appear? Mobile payment and online taxi are becoming mainstream. How can technological progress prevent minorities from falling behind? As early as 1994, China's first administrative regulations related to Internet management were issued. Now, after many baptisms, we have seen the rapid rise and decline of habits. The whole society is gradually familiar with the general laws of Internet development, which has further condensed the consensus that Internet development cannot be easily controlled. A series of policies such as information security and data security have gradually filled in the blind spot of supervision, and industry enterprises have recalibrated their business content. All parties are working towards standardization and refinement, so that the development of the Internet can avoid "negative externalities" to the maximum extent.
China's Internet development has never been isolated, but an important pole in the world Internet wave. Looking back 30 years ago, when globalization was in the ascendant and new technologies were emerging, people believed that the Internet, representing openness, equality and cooperation, would become the spiritual home of all mankind. Today, 30 years later, although the world has ushered in a "great change not seen in a century" and the "anti globalization" sediment is emerging, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial reform represented by artificial intelligence is also emerging, bringing full opportunities for the future. Just like 30 years ago, we came to the eve of the explosion of new technology dividends. The most critical issue at present is how to seize the opportunity to realize the leap forward of innovation and creation again.
"How far are Chinese people from the information superhighway?" In 1996, on the streets of Zhongguancun, Chinese Internet people asked the world a profound question. Today, we have already galloped forward, but in many frontier areas, there are still many bottlenecks and gaps. The era still calls for the lofty ambition of "1500 meters north", and calls for more trendsetters who stand on the top of the technology wave and are committed to innovation and dare to think and fight. Looking back, an important logic for the vigorous development of China's Internet is that it is committed to removing unnecessary shackles for innovative enterprises and talents, and releasing the vitality of innovation and creation to the maximum. We will continue to improve and optimize the environment and ecology that encourage innovation, and give more open space and more tolerant growth environment to those enterprises with technological innovation capabilities, so that China's Internet development can maintain strong vitality and momentum.
In 1994, a book Out of Control by Kevin Kelly, the founding editor in chief of Wired magazine in the United States, came out. The predicted technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, virtual reality, sharing economy, and virtual currency have come true one by one in the past 30 years. Where will the Internet go in the next 30 years? It may be more difficult to predict. But the most solid action is undoubtedly to seize the opportunity, forge ahead, and firmly grasp the future in their own hands.
