Mr Lihua LIU Member of the leadership of MIIT, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China The fast-growing information and communication technologies and industry highlight the social and eco-nomic life in today’s world. The Chinese government has put high priority on the ICT industry ever since its reform and opening-up. As a result, the ICT industry in China has developed in leaps and bounds, and has become the fundamental and strategic industry of our national economy, playing an increasingly impor-tant role in the economic growth, social progress and improvement of people’s living standards. As the new round of technology and industry revolution is on the horizon, we’d like to speed up the development of our ICT industry and facilitate the process of building the information society. Firstly, to build the new generation of network infra-structure. We would accelerate the development of 3G network and encourage the smooth upgrading of the existing networks. The next generation and fiber optic broadband networks will be built and the rural ICT in-frastructure be improved under the overall planning. Internet of Things will be developed to satisfy the prac-tical demands of the users. Meanwhile, we expect to see the substantial progress to be made in the conver-gence A Growing ICT Industry Better Serves the Social and Economic Development of our telecommunication network, broadcast-ing and TV network and the computer network. Mr. Chairman, dear delegates, ladies and gentlemen, I’m very pleased to attend the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference at this beautiful city of Guadalajara. On behalf of the Chinese delegation, may I express our sincere gratitude to the government of Mexico and the ITU as well for the hospitality and considerate arrange-ments Secondly, to focus on the ICT innovations. Based on the market demands, we would set up an innovation system with the businesses playing the dominant role and combining the efforts of the industry sectors, academia, research institutions and users. We would place more focus on the R&D and industrialization of the key technologies such as the next generation wireless broadband communications, next generation Internet and cloud computing. We believe that break-throughs for the conference, and we wish the conference in the core technologies will lead the indus-try a complete success. to a new leap forward. 50