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The development and integration stage
Updated: Dec 25, 2018
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2013
In 2013, the Internet industry had generally a hard time in China. The PRISM at the beginning of the year enlightened the whole world on network security and raised China’s strategic awareness of cyberspace issues. Though Cisco made the announcement that it was not involved in the program to monitor China the dispute never died. The "Internet Governance" campaign was launched in August and control over online public opinion spaces represented Weibo was tightened. The bottom line and liability of online comments became a hot topic. By announcing the National Security Commission at the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), China showed its enhanced attention to national security.
In the industrial sector, mobile Internet was still the highlight. Different from last year, people now became more aware of the uniqueness of mobile Internet. When a turning point appeared in user statistics, the mobile ends were no longer only a supplement and extension of the PC end. Instead, mobile Internet stood out with unique product forms and user habits. WeChat reigned the market of mobile Instant Messaging (IM) and aimed at becoming a platform entrance, which would offer more opportunities for Internet start-ups. The issuance of 4G licenses and the following promotional efforts would provide better network basis for the development of mobile Internet.
From “Links” to "Connections", the Internet had become a ubiquitous supporting force in economy and society, and it started to reshape traditional industries. E-commerce reached out to new fields rapidly, and accelerated its shift from light-goods e-commerce to heavy-goods e-commerce and even O2O e-commerce. Online consumers took up large market shares and the Internet pushed specific industries for changes from the bottom up.
2014
We are now at the integration and innovation stage. Since China put forward the strategy of building itself into a Cyber Power in 2014, innovations in the Internet industry have been deeply integrated with all aspects of economic and social life, the "Internet +" Initiative has been fully implemented and Internet governance has entered into a new phase of reinforced coordination.
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