Overall Progress and Achievements of the Integration of Informatization and Industrialization in China

In recent years, China’s implementation of the Integration of Informatization and Industrialization (III) has made a series of important progress in improving enterprise’s quality and performance, facilitating sector’s transformation and upgrading, and promoting coordinated development across regions. Based on the assessment data of China’s 150,000 enterprises from 31 provinces and more than 100 subsectors, this paper summarized and analyzed the progress and achievements of III in China from multiple perspectives such as country as a whole, regions, sectors and enterprises. Results show that the overall level of III in China has been improved steadily, with distribution structure evolving from "pyramid-shaped" to "spindle-shaped". Breakthroughs have been made in both vertical and horizontal integration of key sectors, and the imbalanced development among different types of enterprises has been reduced.