Preface*
**Speech at a meeting with the participants in a seminar on the article “Development of Our Country's IT Industry in the New Period.”
November 8, 2008
Energy resources and information technology (IT) are two strategic industries that affect China's future development, and are also two fields that I have long taken an interest in. To understand the reason for my lasting interest in energy resources and IT, we need to begin with my youth. I majored in electrical engineering at university. I had a deep interest in energy resources and electronics, and acquired a certain understanding of them. Later, as director of the power plant at Changchun First Automotive Works and Minister of Electronics Industry, I conducted research on cutting-edge ...

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