北京清华大学公共管理学院国情研究中心主任胡鞍钢指出,在数字时代中国正面临三大鸿沟,分别是与世界、内地各地之间、城乡之间计算机普及的巨大差异,成为信息时代中国面临的新挑战。胡鞍钢指出,目前大陆信息技术呈现极不平衡的态势,有关差距称为“数字鸿沟”。例如统计显示,人口占世界总数21.15%的中国大陆,仅有世界计算 Hu Angang, director of the National Research Center of Tsinghua University’s School of Public Management in Beijing, pointed out that in the digital era, China is facing three major gaps, which are the huge differences in the popularization of computers with the rest of the world, the Mainland, and between urban and rural areas and the new age China faces in the information age challenge. Hu Angang pointed out that at present the information technology in the Mainland presents a very unbalanced trend, and the gap is called “the digital divide.” For example, statistics show that with a population of 21.15% of the total number of mainland China, only the world calculates