Informatization is a historical process of making full use of information technology, developing and utilizing information resources, promoting information exchange and knowledge sharing, improving the quality of economic growth and promoting the transformation of economic and social development mode. Since the 1990s, information technology has been continuously innovated, information industry has been continuously developed, and information networks have been widely popularized. Informatization has become a prominent feature of global economic and social development, and has gradually evolved into an all-round social change. Entering the 2 1 century, informatization has a more profound impact on economic and social development. The widely used and highly infiltrated information technology is gestating new major breakthroughs.
Information resources are increasingly becoming an important factor of production, intangible assets and social wealth. Information networks are more popular and increasingly integrated. Informatization and economic globalization are intertwined, which promotes the deepening of global industrial division of labor and the adjustment of economic structure and reshapes the global economic competition pattern. Internet has intensified the interaction of various ideologies and cultures and become a new carrier of information dissemination and knowledge diffusion. E-government plays an increasingly important role in improving administrative efficiency, improving government efficiency and expanding democratic participation. The importance of information security is increasing day by day, which has become a common challenge for all countries.
Informatization has greatly changed the form of modern warfare and is the core content of the new military revolution in the world. The global digital divide is widening and the imbalance of development is becoming more and more serious. The development goal of informatization in developed countries is more clear, and there is a trend of transformation to the information society. More and more developing countries take the initiative to meet the new opportunities brought by the development of informatization and strive to keep up with the trend of the times. Global informatization is triggering profound changes in today's world and reshaping the new pattern of world political, economic, social, cultural and military development. Accelerating the development of informatization has become the common choice of all countries in the world.