Approved by the Ministry of Information Industry, Dalian has officially become a national pilot city for urban informatization. According to reports, in recent years, Dalian has taken the informationization strategy as one of the four strategies to realize leap-forward development, and has taken the development road of informationization driving industrialization. To this end, Dalian proposed that, with the approval of the Ministry of Information Industry during the Tenth Five-Year Plan period, Dalian will officially become a national pilot city for urban informatization.
In recent years, Dalian regards informatization strategy as one of the four strategies to realize leap-forward development, and takes the road of informatization driving industrialization. Therefore, Dalian proposes that by the end of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, Dalian's comprehensive informatization index should reach the level of moderately developed countries and regions in the world and become the information center of Northeast Asia.