What does the information services industry refer to?

The information service industry refers to the socio-economic behavior of service providers who help information users solve problems with unique strategies and contents. From the viewpoint of the nature of labor of workers, such behavior includes production behavior, management behavior and service behavior. Information service industry is the development and utilization of information resources to achieve the key to commercialization, marketization, socialization and specialization.

The information service industry includes system integration, value-added network services, database services, consulting services, maintenance and training, electronic publishing, exhibitions and other aspects of business.

The information service industry is the soft industry part of the information industry. Information service industry is an important industrial sector engaged in the development and utilization of information resources, belonging to the tertiary industry. Information service industry is an intermediate industry connecting information equipment manufacturing and information users. The driving effect on production and consumption is large, and the degree of industrial correlation is high. The development of information service industry helps to expand the demand of information equipment manufacturing industry and increase the supply of information users.

The development of information service industry is not only an industry, an industrial problem, it is related to the national economy and social development of the overall situation. The information service industry has become the fastest growing, most technologically active and most value-added industry in the world information industry.

The information service industry is a complex of specialized industries that use modern science and technology such as computers and communication networks to produce, collect, process, process, store, transmit, retrieve and utilize information and provide services to the society with information products, which are mainly divided into three major categories: namely, the information transmission service industry; the IT service industry (information technology service industry); and the information resource industry (mainly referring to the information content industry). ).

At present, the trend of "service" in the global information industry is becoming more and more obvious, and the proportion of information service industry in the gross national product is also increasing. In recent years, China's government has also continuously introduced relevant policies to support the development of information service industry, and put forward some new views and thoughts on the development and positioning of information service industry. In Guangdong, there are many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) engaged in the information service industry, so with the country's emphasis on the information service industry and the trend of rapid development of the information service industry in the international arena, it also puts forward more challenges for our enterprises engaged in the information service industry in Guangdong; on the other hand, we also see that with the trend of convergence of the industries of mobile, communication and computer, etc., it is bound to provide more business opportunities for these SMEs, such as Animation and games, software industry, digital TV, etc., these information service industries are getting rapid development in Guangdong.

Information services mainly refers to the software and hardware products in addition to the sale of information systems around the software and hardware products to promote the application of the service process, including network information services and professional computer services two major parts. Network information services now mainly refers to the information services provided through the Internet, including Internet access services (ISP, that is, through telephone lines, coaxial or wireless means, the user's computer or other terminal equipment access to the Internet), Internet content provision services (ICP, that is, to provide Internet information searching, organizing and processing services), network application services (ASP, that is, for enterprises and institutions to carry out (ASP, that is, for enterprises and institutions to carry out information construction, carry out e-commerce to provide a variety of Internet-based application services) and so on. Professional computer services include system integration, consulting, training, maintenance and facilities management services.

In recent years, China's rapid development of information services, the growth rate is much higher than the average economic growth rate. At the same time to see, China's information services industry is still in its infancy, accounting for too small a proportion of the information industry market. With the promotion of China's informatization work, it is expected that the information service industry in the future will continue to maintain the momentum of rapid development.

The development of China's information service industry is characterized by: system integration and network services are the main business components. Among them, the system integration industry developed relatively early, the service level is relatively high, in 2000 the turnover of 25 billion yuan, accounting for 78% of the information service industry, in the information service industry occupies an absolutely important share; 2000 network service industry turnover of 5.3 billion yuan, accounting for 16.7%, but the development speed is amazing, become a new driving force for the growth of the information service industry. Database service industry development is relatively lagging behind, turnover in 2000 only 100 million yuan, accounting for 0.3%, in the service content and service level can not meet the demand for informationization.