Over the past five years, Xi Jinping step by step to climb the pinnacle of China's political power and the rapid development of China's Internet industry is almost synchronized.
Looking back in October 2012, that is, from Xi Jinping from his predecessor took the power of the baton of the month, the Chinese electric business giant Alibaba Group (Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., BABA) listed on the NYSE listed Two years. At that time all Chinese applications are still free, because few people are willing to pay for the application package; then China's most popular social media platform and Twitter is almost microblogging (Weibo), the future of the platform into a self Under the guidance of the Chinese agenda set up a public forum.
Today, Alibaba and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (0700.HK, Tencent), a technology giant with both instant messaging and gaming services, are among the top 10 most valuable technology companies in the world, with Amazon. com Inc., AMZN) and Facebook Inc. (FB) .2016, the Chinese people in the mobile phone applications cost more than the United States to become the world's first in China, 751 million Internet users, more than half of the purchase of products on mobile phones and Services, China in the mobile payment penetration and trading leading the world.
In the Chinese Internet industry prosperity and development at the same time, Xi Jinping online dissidents voice and overseas content of the blow is also soft, regulatory regulations to increase the 'rumors' spread of punishment, chat group owners also for all chat Content is responsible for intimidation and arrest to microblogging large V silence. Review technology is also increasingly pervasive.
Chinese people are now often talking about 'intranet', is behind the door to big and strong, but with the real global Internet more and more alienated.
The nearly nineteenth accord has given Xi Jinping the supreme power, in his second five-year term, the Chinese Internet will show what kind of pattern? Xi Jinping will be how to control the Internet and continue to make the Internet play the role of economic growth and innovation To find a balance between?
The following are five possible.
More powerful firewall
Access to external networks may become increasingly difficult. Cloud computing and artificial intelligence progress means that the review of network content 'firewall' will be more daunting, the network review will cover the subtle network activities and track each Internet users to the Internet footprint.
The virtual wall, the VPN, has been hit by the Chinese government, and according to a new provision, all other VPNs are illegal except for government-approved VPNs, which allow the Chinese government to have monitoring data Flow of new channels.
Content control is far more than politics, and even entertainment blogs are subject to a rigorous review of the network novel author was told not to describe the neck below the body parts.
Inside the firewall, the Internet boom still
The key to the success of the Internet in China is that it is not only reviewed, and that China's Internet companies are able to provide products and services that are sophisticated and highly capable, making China a leader in mobile Internet.
Last year, Xi Jinping said in a speech on the Internet, Chinese technology companies should continue to innovate, the growth of the technology industry is the key to national economy and security.
Although the growth of Internet users has entered the platform period, but the demand for network products and services is still strong.Chinese young people basically live on mobile phones.City cities, rural areas, as well as India and Southeast Asia and other developing countries, new markets have yet to be developed The
Technology companies must prove himself to Xi Jinping
China's Internet companies hold a lot of personal data, can be described as sitting on a gold mine.Some industry executives said that the Chinese people's personal privacy concerns are not high, these data just come in handy, so that China's artificial intelligence development speed beyond The rest of the world. Chinese society is large and active, the Chinese government also hopes to use these data to strengthen social management, but the lack of large technology companies have the expertise.
But cooperation between the Chinese government and technology companies has begun, and facial recognition is one example, and China's deployment of face recognition technology is leading the world, and Chinese technology companies are working with police and other government departments to identify offenders and try to build a database that contains massive information Of the database, covering unpaid fines, online reviews and other acts to achieve personal 'social credit' tracking.
The greater the size of the technology company, the more compromise that needs to be made
Alibaba, Tencent and other large technology companies will face more pressure to strengthen cooperation with the government.These companies have a strong influence, from instant messaging, e-commerce, entertainment to the financial field, everywhere they have their shadow, which makes They are inseparable from the lives of many Chinese people.
Xi Jinping suggested that such a role should be played by the Communist Party of China.Chen Jinping proposed a large-scale technology enterprises in 2016 to abuse the power to restrict competition, but no specific name.He called for strengthening supervision, limiting the power of these companies. Began to participate in the network company, in order to obtain the board seats and the right to speak.
R & D spending increased significantly
With the slowdown in user growth and gaining a competitive advantage, technology companies have increased their R & D investment to find this advantage.
Alibaba announced this month that the next three years will raise research and development spending nearly twice to $ 15 billion, including data analysis, quantum computing and machine learning and other fields.
In the 2016 speech, Xi Jinping will rely on foreign technology metaphor for others in the wall on the building of the house, then big and then beautiful can also stand the wind and rain can not stand the wind and rain, , Or even vulnerable.