中华人民共和国工业和信息化部 | |
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Formed | March 2008 |
Superseding agency |
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Type | Constituent Department of the State Council (cabinet-level executive department) |
Jurisdiction | Government of China |
Headquarters | Beijing |
Minister responsible | |
Deputy Ministers responsible | |
Agency executives |
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Parent agency | State Council |
Child agencies | |
Website | www |
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 中华人民共和国工业和信息化部 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中華人民共和國工業和信息化部 | ||||||
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The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) is the sixth-ranked executive department of the State Council of the People's Republic of China. It is responsible for regulation and development of the postal service,Internet,wireless,broadcasting,communications,production of electronic and information goods,software industry and the promotion of the national knowledge economy.
In 2004,the MIIT began the Connecting Every Village Project to promote universal access to telecommunication and internet services in rural China. [2] : 24–25 The MIIT required that six state-owned companies,including the main telecommunications and internet providers China Mobile,China Unicom,and China Telecom,build the communications infrastructure and assist in financing the project. [2] : 25 Beginning in late 2009,the program began building rural telecenters each of which had at least one telephone,computer,and internet connectivity. [2] : 37–38 Approximately 90,000 rural telecenters were built by 2011. [2] : 38 As of December 2019,135 million rural households had used broadband internet. [2] : 25 The program successfully extended internet infrastructure throughout rural China and promoted development of the internet. [2] : 25
The State Council announced during the 1st session of the 11th National People's Congress that the MIIT would supersede the Ministry of Information Industry (MII). [3]
In 2013,the ministry's Made in China 2025 plan was approved by the State Council. It took over two years to complete by one hundred and fifty people. The plan's aim is to improve production efficiency and quality. [4]
In summer 2021,MIIT began a six-month long regulatory campaign to address a variety of consumer protection and unfair competition issues,including interoperability concerns,in the consumer internet sector. [5] : 114 It held meetings with executives from major Chinese tech companies and instructed them that their companies could no longer block external links to competitors. [5] : 114
The ministry is responsible for industrial development,policy,and standards. [5] : 40 It also oversees industry operations monitoring,innovation,and information technology [6] and approves fixed-asset investment projects in industry,communications,and information technology. [5] : 40 It is the government body primarily responsible for supervising product standards. [7] : 107
MIIT delegates much of its legislative and standard setting work to the China Academy of Information and Communication Technology. [5] : 143
In 2006,Human Rights Watch said that the ministry is responsible for overseeing technical implementation of the censorship in China. [8]
The ministry is responsible for the current iteration of the Thousand Talents Plan called Qiming. [9]
MIIT has some regulatory overlap with the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR). [5] : 23 Although MIIT does not have authority to enforce the Anti-Monopoly Law like SAMR does,it uses its departmental guidelines to address unfair competition issues. [5] : 114
The ministry administers the State Administration of Science,Technology and Industry for National Defense,and the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau. [10] The MIIT was historically responsible for the nation's tobacco control,including over the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control,but this task was assigned to the National Health Commission as part of a large-scale government reform in 2018. [11] Under the arrangement one institution with two names,the MIIT reserves the external brands of the China National Space Administration and the China Atomic Energy Authority. [6]
The MIIT oversees the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology,a government think tank that focuses on telecommunications and the digital economy. It also oversees seven universities,including top universities such as the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,the Beijing Institute of Technology,the Harbin Institute of Technology,and the Northwestern Polytechnical University. The MIIT also co-manages the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund,used by the government to invest in semiconductor companies,together with the Ministry of Finance. [6]
No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
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Minister of Information Industry | |||
1 | Wu Jichuan | March 1998 | March 2003 |
2 | Wang Xudong | March 2003 | March 2008 |
Minister of Industry and Information Technology | |||
3 | Li Yizhong | March 2008 | December 2010 |
4 | Miao Wei | December 2010 | August 2020 |
5 | Xiao Yaqing | August 2020 | July 2022 |
6 | Jin Zhuanglong | July 2022 | Incumbent |
No. | Name | Took office | Left office |
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Ministry of Industry and Information Technology | |||
1 | Li Yizhong | March 2008 | December 2010 |
2 | Miao Wei | December 2010 | July 2020 |
3 | Xiao Yaqing | July 2020 | July 2022 |
4 | Jin Zhuanglong | July 2022 | Incumbent |
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