Judging from the history of the development of the international society, the emergence and evolution of the information market have roughly gone through four stages. The first stage is the "hidden stage" before17th century. In this long historical process, the circulation of information is included in the circulation of material goods, and the information itself has not yet formed a commodity, but only the subsidiary formation of the exchange of material goods. The second stage is17-the "embryonic stage" of the first leaf in the 20th century. Due to the development of productive forces and the refinement of social division of labor, information products began to enter the circulation field as commodities. However, the market supply and demand scope and market scale are still relatively small, and the information market can only be a prototype. The third stage is the all-round development stage. After World War II, the information industry specialized in information production and information trading came into being. Especially since the 1950s, due to the wide adoption of various modern information technologies, the amount of information has doubled and the scope of information demand has been expanding. The information economy corresponding to the material economy has become an important factor affecting a country's economic, social and technological development. With the advent of the information age, the information market has gradually stepped onto a new stage of perfection, maturity and prosperity, namely the fourth stage.
Due to historical reasons, the development of China's commodity economy has been quite slow. Coupled with the restrictions of economic, social and scientific development, even the material commodity market is very scarce. What about the information market? After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the National Science Conference, China implemented the policy of reform and opening up, the commodity economy developed rapidly, science and technology played an important role as the primary productive force, information power began to emerge, and the information market changed from "recessive" to "budding" stage. With the all-round development of national economy, society and science and technology, the demand for information is very strong, and the information industry has been liberated from the shackles of the original planned economy and has begun to embark on the track of commercialization and marketization. In just a few years, thousands of state-owned, private and Sino-foreign joint venture information consulting companies, information development companies and patent offices have been established all over the country, and a large number of information brokers have emerged as specialized occupations, with rich and colorful information services. They developed in an all-round way on the basis of the original paid services, which effectively promoted the all-round rise of China's information market.
Develop in the tide of commodity economy
Since the mid-1980s, China's information market has developed very rapidly, driven by the internal driving force of commodity economy prosperity and external environment such as policy guarantee, technical guarantee and condition guarantee. Mainly in the following aspects.
1. There are various market forms. According to the characteristics of our country and the actual needs of users, the fixed, communication, temporary and mobile information markets are developing rapidly. The fixed information market has fixed operating institutions and exchange places for long-term information trading activities, such as more than 400 original scientific and technological information institutions in China. The paid service projects of these institutions have gradually increased in level and scale, and about half of them have formed an almost fixed information market. By the end of 1995, due to effective market development, the operating income of China's scientific and technological information institutions has reached 1/2 of national expenditure. In addition, ministries, provinces and cities have established more than 20 large-scale fixed information markets. Communication information market uses telephone, telegraph and computer network to exchange information. The opening of the Internet has created conditions for the development and utilization of network resources and value-added services, forming an online network information market.
2. The content of information exchange is rich and colorful. The rapid development of commodity economy includes economy, trade, finance, law, statistics, enterprise diagnosis and evaluation, international market analysis, etc. , has become the content of exchange and transaction in the information market. Online information retrieval and query. Directional and fixed-point topic selection services, information conferences and trade fairs, technology promotion and bidding are widely used, and the tentacles of the market have extended to the material product market, futures market, technology market, financial market, talent market and real estate market.
The electronic information market is booming. The electronic information market has developed with the wave of contemporary new technological revolution, and the Zhongguancun Electronic Street in Beijing is a typical example. Since the mid-1980s, China's information supply and services have shifted from manual and printed media to electronic transmission, and software development and sales have embarked on an independent development track based on the computer industry. The close combination of technology market and information market has formed a new wave of information industry development in China.
Perfection in the construction of market system
The CPC Central Committee clearly pointed out that the goal of China's economic system reform is to establish a socialist market economic system, and China's national economic development plan puts forward national economic informationization. The development of information technology, information industry and information market has become a part of China's overall development strategy, and has been included in the important agenda of China's economic, social and scientific development. In the future, China's information market will be constantly cultivated and improved in the construction of the socialist market system, and further play its leading role in the material commodity market and various factor markets.