The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ("MIIT") and the National Development and Reform Commission ("NDRC") have recently issued the Three-Year Action Plan for Expanding and Upgrading Information Consumption (2018-2020) (the "Plan").
The Plan states that by 2020, information consumption scale will reach CNY6 trillion, rising at an average annual growth rate of over 11 percent, and the framework of laws and regulations on information consumption will become increasingly perfect. To this end, the Plan outlines four major actions, including the action to improve the quality of the supply system for new-type information products, the action to boost the information technology service capacity, the action to empower information consumers, and the action to optimize the information consumption environment. In addition, the Plan expressly states that efforts will be made to deepen the development of intelligent connected vehicles, advance the research and development of critical technologies and products, such as vehicle-use intelligent chips, operating systems for automatic driving, and intelligent algorithms for vehicles; also, the industrial e-commerce will be developed strongly, with support provided for enterprises in developing supportive services targeting the whole process of information consumption, including online payments, modern logistics and supply chain management. Furthermore, the Plan stresses the need to reinforce the protection of personal information and promote the introduction of policies with respect to the administration of telecommunications and internet network data.