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IBM has enjoyed a relationship with China that has endured for more than half a century. But I do not believe there has ever been a more exciting time to be doing business here,as vast new opportunity is created by your sweeping modernization and ambitious government-led reform programs for thousands of stateowned enterprises.This transformation, I believe,will underscore the critical importance of information technology as a driver of competitive success and real economic growth for China.So today, I want to talk to you about what I believe has to be the agenda of a leader of an enterprise-business,government agency, university, hospital, bank anywhere in the world-the agenda regarding this technology.Some of you know that before I came to IBM, my background was a lot like yours.I was a customer of IBM. I was a customer of the computer industry.I arrived at IBM with a firmly held conviction that this technology is one of those transformational technologies that comes along every hundred years or so and changes everything in our society.Today,in almost every industry in almost every part of the world there are many examples of enterprises applying this technology challenges for their competitors,I think we"re seeing information technology reach the point that all transformational technologies reach when they are no longer controlled by just a small group of skilled professionals,and they cross over to mass acceptance and ubiquity.Networking technology is still in its infancy,yet it has reached already the point where we can call it a new mass medium.Less than 5 years after the birth of the World Wide Web,some 90 million people are online around the world,and that number will be hundreds of millions before too long.Here in China, the number of Internet users has nearly doubled since just last October,to more than 1 million users.And I"ve seen statistics that say your Internet population will exceed 7 million people by the year 2001.
IBM和中国的合作已长达半个多世纪。但是我认为和中国做生意，以前从未有过比现在更令人鼓舞的时刻；因为贵国的全面现代化和在政府领导下的对国营企业的改革计划为我们提供了机遇。我认为，对中国而言,信息技术作为竞争中取胜和经济增长的推动力量,将加强在这场变革中的作用。所以,今天我想谈谈信息技术,我认为它已列入世界各地企事业机构领导人(不管是企业、政府部门、大学、医院还是银行。)的议事日程，各位当中有些人知道，在来IBM任职之前，我的背景在许多方面和你们都是一样的。我那时是IBM的客户，或者说我是计算机产业的客户。到IBM任职时,我有个信念:信息技术是划时代的技术;它很久才会出现一次,且会改变一切。今天，在世界上几乎每个角落的任何产业里,都有企业运用信息技术来获得竞争优势,向对手挑战。我认为我们正在目睹信息技术进入重要阶段,它们不再只为少数专业人员所掌握，而转变到为大众所接受，并无处不在。虽然网络技术还处于初级阶段，但是它已经可以被称为一个新的大众媒体。万维网的诞生还不到五年，全球已有九千万人在使用它。不需要多久，它使用的人将数以万计。在中国，自去年10月到现在，互联网使用者的人数已翻了一翻，达到100多万。我所掌握的统计资料表明，到2001年，中国互联网使用者将超过7百万人。
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