Digital inequality in a modern Chinese city: Statistical analysis results

In 1997, China's competent departments authorized China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) to organize relevant Internet entities to jointly carry out the statistical survey on internet development in China and regularly release the Statistical Report on Internet Development in China (hereinafter referred to as the "Report") at the beginning and middle of each year.Ever since then, CNNIC has published 44 reports.The Report has reflected the process of building up China's strength in cyberspace through core data.It has provided an important reference for Chinese government departments, domestic and foreign industry institutions, experts and scholars to understand the development of China's Internet and formulate relevant policies.2019 is the 70th anniversary of the foundation of New China and the 25th anniversary of China's full access to the Internet.Over the past 25 years, China's Internet has grown from nothing and from weak to strong, profoundly changing people's production and life.Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially the important thought on cyber development, China's Internet and information undertakings have achieved historic achievements.The national strategy for cyber development has reached a new level.The main theme of cyberspace is in high spirits.The core technologies in the field of information continue to have breakthroughs.People have fully benefited from the Internet.As a faithful recorder of implementing the national strategy for cyber development, CNNIC has followed the development of China's Internet, expanding the scope of research and subdividing research areas.The Report focuses on the six aspects of basic Internet development, the size and structure of Internet users, the development of Internet applications, the development of e-government applications, industrial and technological development, and Internet security.It strives to comprehensively demonstrate the development of China's Internet in 2019 and the beginning of 2020 through multi-angle and all-round data.