党的十六大报告中明确指出 :信息化是我国加快实现工业化和现代化的必然选择。要大力推进信息化 ,加快建设现代化 ,保持国民经济持续快速健康发展。为了促进湖北省信息产业、信息服务业的发展与繁荣 ,探讨信息社会发展趋势 ,由湖北省信息学会、湖北日报社主办 ;省委宣传部、省 The report of the 16th National Congress of the CPC made it clear that the informationization is the inevitable choice for our country to speed up the realization of industrialization and modernization. We should vigorously promote informationization, speed up the building of modernization, and maintain the sustained, rapid and healthy development of the national economy. In order to promote the development and prosperity of information industry and information service industry in Hubei Province, and to explore the trend of information society development, Hubei Institute of Information and Hubei Daily shall hold the position of Propaganda Department of Hubei Provincial Party Committee,