80年代中期、90年代初以来,信息产业迅速崛起于以美国为首的西方发达国家,成为这些国家中新的主导产业,经济走向复苏和繁荣的新的经济增长点。以美国为例,信息产业的发展可谓日新月异,与信息直接或间接相关的部门在国内生产总值中所占的比重达80%,在新增就业岗位中已有90%来自与信息相关的行业。由于国际互联网的异军突起,世界信息产业的增长速度为世界经济增长速度的5-6倍,到2000 Since the mid-1980s and early 1990s, the information industry has rapidly risen up in the western developed countries headed by the United States and become the new economic growth point in these countries in which new leading industries and economies are recovering and prospering. In the United States, for example, the development of the information industry is changing rapidly. The sectors that directly or indirectly relate to information account for 80% of the GDP and 90% of the newly created jobs come from information-related industries . Due to the sudden emergence of the Internet, the world information industry has grown at a rate of 5-6 times the world economic growth rate to 2000