2001年1月,被誉为上海市城市建设一号工程的“上海信息港主体工程”建成开通,市长徐匡迪在致辞中说,上海要把全面推进城市信息化作为上海未来发展的一项基本的战略,放在优先发展的位置,以信息化带动工业化、以信息化促进城市现代化,提高上海的城市综合竞争力,实现社会生产力跨越式发展。这仿佛为上海踏上信息化高速路吹响了嘹亮的号角。 In January 2001, the “Harbor Information Project of Shanghai Port”, one of Shanghai’s urban construction projects, was completed and opened. Mayor Xu Kuangdi said in his speech that Shanghai should comprehensively promote urban informatization as a basic part of Shanghai’s future development Strategy to give priority to the development of the industrialization of information driven, information technology to promote urban modernization and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of Shanghai’s urban and social development of productive forces by leaps and bounds. This seems to set foot on the information highway in Shanghai sounded a bright horn.