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Year 1992. Then-Senator Al Gore, who is now Vice President of the United States, introduced the U.S. Information Superhighway Act. The following year, the U.S. government announced a high-tech program for SHKP, which was designed to take the form of the Internet. The construction of highways in the information age will make it easy for Chinese people to share massive information resources.

In his State of the Union address, the US president said that the plan would cost $200 to $400 billion over a period of 20 years. to build the U.S. national information infrastructure. As the focus of U.S. development policy and the basis of industrial development, the proponents believe. It will forever change the way people live, work and communicate with each other. The impact is more profound than that of the Industrial Revolution.

At the end of last year. This was stated by US Vice President Al Gore. The US Government's policy on the information superhighway has taken shape and will soon be submitted to Congress for discussion in the form of a draft law.

"The so-called information superhighway. It refers to the proposed national information network connecting American universities, research institutions, enterprises and ordinary American households, which is an infrastructure for the purpose of information exchange, and this information infrastructure is named after the interstate highway network, which has been built since the fifties and has served as one of the pillars of the U.S. economic development for the past few decades. Fan Wuxian described the concept of information superhighway to Boss Zhu as briefly as possible, and said, "It also belongs to infrastructure." But the information superhighway is no less important. Perhaps even beyond the significance of highways to the national economy, data, text, sound, images and television programs can be sent and received via telephone lines, cable television transmission lines or wireless telephone networks. In the future, the information superhighway will integrate the functions of the existing computer network services, telephones and cable television, and become the carrier of education, health, entertainment, commerce, finance and other extremely wide range of service projects. The biggest difference from existing one-way media such as television is that the information superhighway will be a two-way communication format, so that information consumers will become active providers of information. ”

Boss Zhu listened to it with relish, he mainly focused on economic work, and he really didn't know much about this matter.

In fact, the idea of building a national information network was proposed by Clinton and Gore the year before, and shortly after they took office last January, Clinton authorized Wiley to set up a task force on information infrastructure, headed by Commerce Secretary Gordon Brown. Vice-President Al Gore, Chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Tyson, and a group of economic, legal, and technical experts and representatives of the telecommunications industry followed months of meticulous preparations. A full-fledged bill was proposed.

Similar to the U.S. transportation network that directly reaches factories, schools, hospitals, recreational facilities, and nearly all homes, the designers of the information superhighway want to build the same level of ubiquity. Make it extremely convenient for Americans to get information.

WITH THE MASSIVE POPULARITY OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SPREAD OF THE INTERNET, THE FLOW OF INFORMATION BETWEEN TENS OF MILLIONS OF COMPUTERS MAINLY DEPENDS ON THE TRANSMISSION OF BINARY DATA IN TELEPHONE LINES. However, the channels for the exchange of information between computers are still only equivalent to many small roads when the automobile first appeared, and the speed, capacity and efficiency cannot be improved. The path is not very smooth.

The information superhighway will be an additional thoroughfare in addition to the existing sheep intestine road, and after the data is compressed, it can be transmitted quickly at thousands of times the speed, and through optical cables, the information superhighway will not only become a data transmission medium, but also will transmit a variety of services such as television, telephone, teaching, and finance, and become the most significant communication revolution after the popularization of telephone in the United States.

"The strength of the Americans is terrible." After listening to Fan Wuxi's introduction, Boss Zhu said helplessly.

Although China wants to claim to be a big country, its comprehensive national strength is much backward, and at best it is a big country, but it cannot be called a strong country, and even in some respects, it can only be regarded as a weak country. It's just that no one will stand up and admit it publicly.

In Chinese philosophy, face is very important, and you can talk casually behind closed doors, but when it comes to public occasions. Everyone has to put on a mask and be a human being, as the so-called disease comes from the mouth, and disaster comes from the mouth. Stuff can be eaten indiscriminately. Words are not to be talked about.

Fan Wuzhi then attacked Boss Zhu's self-confidence, "The investment required to build the information superhighway exceeds that of most large-scale projects in history, and from 1959 to 1963, the government investment in building interstate highways in the United States was $38 billion, compared with the previous four years. The total expenditure of the US business community on large-scale purchases of computers and office equipment is $22 billion. In the next four years, the U.S. Short Distance Telephone Company alone is expected to invest as much as $50 billion in the information superhighway. ”

Boss Zhu was immediately frightened by this number. A little embarrassed, he said, "According to what you say, our country can't afford to carry out this project." There are more Chinese than Americans, and they want to build an information superhighway of the same scale. A year-on-year calculation will require at least $300 billion in investment? Our domestic foreign exchange reserves are only tens of billions of dollars, where is this spare money? ”

Fan Wuxian knew that Boss Zhu was telling the truth. At the end of last year, the country's foreign exchange reserves were only $21.1 billion, but this year they continued to rise, and by the end of April, the figure had exceeded $30 billion for the first time, which was already a very gratifying progress, but compared with the $50 billion mentioned by Fan Wuji, or the $300 billion estimated by Boss Zhu himself. It's a drop in the bucket.

Even if the government is working on this information superhighway project. So where is the profit? Is it really possible for the Chinese to stand tall among the world's great powers all at once? These words are all nonsense, of course, Boss Zhu will not agree to this kind of thing.

According to general habitual thinking. Everyone's awareness should be like this, let the Americans try it first, and 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 superhighway, our economy has taken off, and there is more money, and the time is almost ripe.

Fan Wuxian also understands this truth. But he also knows that information technology is related to time and place. The sooner this thing is done. the better. If you are one step late, you will make a lot less money. There is no reciprocity in terms of information. It will cost the Chinese many opportunities.

"Time is running out—" Fan Wuxian sighed. There was a lot of frustration between the looks.

Boss Zhu heard that Fan Wuxian's voice was completely different from usual, obviously very worried, and he was very curious, so he talked about this thing. The Americans are just starting to do it. Why is Fan Wuxi in such a hurry? So he said, "If you really want to do it, we can only provide policy support, and we can't get the money, at most we can let the local government cooperate with you." ”

Fan Wuxian and others said this, but it was not good to immediately show that he was proud of his treacherous plan, so he replied hum-huh, "I hope to lay fiber optic cables in the provincial capitals first." Build the basic node, and when you have money to develop this thing in the future, you won't have much time. ”

It's like building a highway. Although there are not many Chinese vehicles. But once the highway is built, the Chinese will find a way to buy a car. The same is true for the construction of the information superhighway, once the backbone network is built. With the guarantee of basic services, ordinary users only need to buy their own computers and equipment, and they will soon be able to access the Internet to travel.

Fan Wuzhi just wants to build optical cable communication facilities one step ahead. Be one step ahead and wait until everyone else reacts. He has become a de facto overlord with these networks, and if he wants to catch up with himself, it is not as simple as just talking with his mouth.

"Since you're willing to spend money, then I can't help but cooperate, right?" Boss Zhu said with a smile.

In fact, if Fan Wuxian really lays fiber optic cables in the provincial capitals. That's going to be a big project. As for how much the output benefit and tax revenue can be, Boss Zhu can't estimate it for the time being, but roughly estimated, this project will not be less than tens of billions of dollars in investment, right?

This matter is not only for solving employment opportunities. It is also beneficial to stimulate local economic development. The key is that Fan Wuxian is willing to spend money, which is the most important thing.

It's like building a privately financed highway. As long as you put the highway there. The state is meant to benefit.

So the two of them talked about this matter, and agreed that Fan Wuxian would 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 Boss Zhu still suggested that Fan Wuzhi set up a special department to operate this matter. So that everyone has a clearer understanding of this.

Fan Wuxian naturally agreed to this. It's nothing more than one more network operation company under his own subordinate. Spend your own money to source your own products. It's really interesting to think about how to build your own backbone network, and the only thing that benefits from it before the network actually generates profits is the tax department.

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

So. The backbone application network in China is preliminarily formed.

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