The Ministry of Information Industry issued here Sunday 20 indexes for evaluating the popularization of the information services.
This is the first time the ministry has issued such kind of index.
The indexes include: television and radio broadcast time per one thousand residents, per capita possession of band-width, number of phone-calls on average, trade volume of E-Commerce and so on.
Wu Jichuan, minister of Information Industry, said that the issuance of the indexes is of strategic significance to promoting national economy and popularization of information service.
The ministry will also issue, step by step, some other sub- indexes for E-business, E-enterprise and information resource.
(People's Daily 07/30/2001)
