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In 1992. Al Gore, then senator and current U.S. Vice President, proposed the U.S. Information High Highway Act. The following year, the U.S. government announced the implementation of a new high-tech project aimed at using the Internet as a prototype. People who build highways in the information age can easily share massive information resources.

According to the State of the Union address of the President of the United States, the plan is to spend 20 to 400 billion U.S. dollars in 20 years. To build the national information infrastructure of the United States. As the focus of the U.S. exhibition policy and the foundation of the industrial exhibition site, the proponent believes that. It will forever change the way people live, work and communicate with each other. It has a more profound impact than the industrial revolution.

end of last year. U.S. Vice President Al Gore said. The U.S. government’s information highway and land policy has taken shape and will soon be submitted to Congress for discussion in the form of a draft law.

"The so-called information highway. It refers to the proposed establishment of a nationwide information network that runs through American universities, research institutions, businesses, and even ordinary American families. It is an infrastructure for information exchange. The name of this information infrastructure , Terminology and design are all borrowed from the transportation infrastructure, the interstate highway network, which was built in the 1950s and served as one of the pillars of the US economic development in the past few decades. Described the concept of information highway, and said, “It also belongs to infrastructure. However, the importance of information highway is no less than that. It may even pass the significance of the highway to the national economy. Data, text, sound, images and TV programs can be sent and received through telephone lines, cable television transmission lines or wireless telephone networks. In the future, the information highway will integrate the functions of existing computer networking services, telephone and cable television, and become education, health, entertainment, commerce, and finance. It is a carrier of extremely wide-ranging service items. The biggest difference from existing one-way media such as TV is that the information highway will be in the form of two-way communication, enabling information consumers to become active providers of information."

Boss Zhu listened with gusto. He was mainly engaged in economic work, and he really didn't know much about this matter.

In fact, the establishment of a national information network was proposed by Clinton and Gore the year before. Soon after they took office in January last year, Clinton authorized Wiley to authorize the Information Infrastructure Task Force, led by Secretary of Commerce Brown. Vice President Al Gore, Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers Tyson, and a group of economic, legal, technical experts, and representatives of the telecommunications industry were formed after several months of careful preparation. Proposed a mature bill.

Similar to the situation where the American transportation network can directly reach factories, schools, hospitals, entertainment facilities and almost all homes, the designers of the information highway hope that the information network of the construction site can reach the same degree of popularity. Make it extremely convenient for Americans to get information.

With the large-scale popularization and local promotion of personal computers in the United States, the flow of information among tens of millions of computers mainly relies on the transmission of binary data over telephone lines. However, the channels of information exchange between computers are still only equivalent to the many small intestines of the car when the car first appeared due to technical reasons, and the degree, capacity and efficiency cannot be improved. The path is not very smooth.

The information highway will be a thoroughfare added to the existing small intestines. After data is compressed, it can be transmitted thousands of times faster. Through optical cables, the information highway will not only become a data transmission medium, but also transmit TV, telephone, Various services such as teaching and finance have become the most significant communications revolution since the popularization of telephones in the United States.

"The strength of the Americans is terrible." Boss Zhu said helplessly after listening to Fan Wuyao's introduction.

Although China has to claim to be a big country, its overall national strength lags far behind. At best, it is a big country, and not a strong country. In some respects, it can only be regarded as a weak country. Everyone is well aware of this matter. It's just that no one will stand up and admit it publicly.

In Chinese philosophy, face is very important. You can talk nonsense behind closed doors, but once you get to a public occasion. Everyone has to wear masks to behave. As the saying goes, illness comes through the mouth, and misfortune comes through the mouth. Things can be eaten indiscriminately. Words cannot be nonsense.

Fan Wuyao then attacked boss Zhu’s self-confidence, "The investment required to build the information highway has exceeded most of the large-scale projects in history. From 1959 to 1963, the US government invested in the construction of the interstate highway. In the previous four years, the total expenditure on large-scale purchases of computers and office equipment in the US business community was 22 billion US dollars. In the next four years, only the short distance telephone company in the United States is prepared to provide information high The investment paid for the highway is expected to reach as much as 50 billion U.S. dollars."

Boss Zhu was immediately shocked by this number. Somewhat embarrassingly said, "According to your statement, our country cannot afford this project. There are more Chinese than Americans. To build an information highway of the same scale, it would take at least US$300 billion compared to the same period last year. Investment? Our mainland foreign exchange reserves are only tens of billions of dollars. Where is this spare money?"

Fan Wubing knew that boss Zhu was telling the truth. At the end of last year, the country’s foreign exchange reserves were only 211 billion US dollars. This year, they have been rising continuously. By the end of April, the statistics showed that this time it exceeded 30 billion US dollars. This is already a gratifying improvement. , But compared with the 50 billion U.S. dollars mentioned by Fan Wuyao, or the 300 billion U.S. dollars estimated by Boss Zhu himself. It's a drop in the bucket.

Even if the government has broken the boat and engaged in this information-high highway project. So where is the profit point? Is it really possible for the Chinese to stand among the world's powers at once? These words are all unscrupulous things, of course Boss Zhu will not agree to this kind of thing.

According to general inertial thinking. Everyone's consciousness should be like this. Let the Americans give it a try first, if the effect is good. It's not too late for us to work on this project! After a few years, we can see the impact of this information highway, our economy has taken off, and the money has increased, and the time is almost ripe.

Fan Wubing also understands this truth. But he also knows the relationship between information technology and time. The sooner this thing gets done. The better the effect. Make a lot of money less later. Information is not equal. It will make the Chinese lose many opportunities.

"Time doesn't wait for me--" Fan Wubing sighed. The look was very depressed.

Boss Zhu noticed that Fan Wubing's voice was completely different from usual. He was obviously very worried and very curious, so let's talk about it. The Americans have just started doing it. How could Fan Wuyi be so anxious? So he said, "If you really want to do it, we can only provide policy support. This money is not available. At most, the local government will cooperate with you."

This was what Fan Wubing waited for, but it was not easy to immediately show his triumphant triumphant pride, so he replied, “I hope to lay optical cables in the provincial capitals first. Give the basic nodes to When it is built, when there is money to display this thing, there will be no time wasted."

This is like building a high highway. Although there are not many Chinese vehicles. But once the high road is built, the Chinese will find a way to buy a car after they have tasted the sweetness. The same is true for building information highways, once the backbone network is built. The basic services are guaranteed, so ordinary users only need to buy their own computers and equipment, and they will soon be able to access the Internet to travel.

Fan Wubing wanted to build optical cable communication facilities one step in advance. Go ahead and wait until everyone else reacts. I have become the de facto overlord by virtue of these networks, and if I want to catch myself again, it is not as simple as just talking with my mouth.

"Since you are willing to spend money, I can't help but say cooperation?" Boss Zhu said with a smile.

In fact, if Fan Wuyi really lays optical cables in the provincial capitals. That will be a big project. As for the output benefits and tax revenue, Boss Zhu is still unable to estimate for the time being, but a rough estimate, this project will not be less than the investment of tens of billions of dollars, right?

Whether this matter is for solving job opportunities. It is beneficial to promote local economic development. The key is that Fan Wuyi is willing to spend money on consumption ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This is the most important thing.

It is like privately funded construction of high roads. As long as your road is there. The country is to benefit.

So the two people talked about this matter and agreed that Fan Wuyin should send a special person to negotiate with the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council to discuss the implementation plan of this matter and specific matters. Boss Zhu still suggested that Fan Wuyin set up another special Department to run this matter. So that everyone has a clearer understanding of this.

Fan Wubing naturally agreed with this. It is nothing more than an additional network operating company under one's own subordinates. Spend your own money to purchase your own products. It is really interesting to think about it again to build its own backbone network. Probably the only thing that benefits from it is the tax department before the network really generates profits.

Of course. In order to make use of the network as soon as possible. Fan Wuyao first delineated a few key industries, namely medical and health, education and technology, as well as business information exchange, talent exchange and other aspects. These are industries that require timely information exchange. If your own information chain plays a role in it, then many similar departments will want to join their own network system.

Thus. The domestic backbone application network is even preliminary.