More than 90 percent of county-level governments and even many towns and villages have established portal Web sites, Yang added.
According to the action plan, E-government will be promoted to gradually achieve the goal that governments above the county level and their departments each has a website and most government organs and public institutions each has a hotline.
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The eHR system enables different healthcare providers in both the public and private sectors to enter, transfer and retrieve data, with procedures for obtaining patients' consent, and mechanisms for authenticating and controlling data access.
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China tops public sector enterprise networking equipment spending in Asia Pacific, says Springboard Research, an IT market research and advisory firm.
Its latest research report titled "An Opportunity Emerging: Networking in the Public Sector," which was released recently, stated that the greater China region (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) contributed the largest share at 42.7 per cent to enterprise networking spending by the public sector across Asia Pacific (excluding Japan).
Read more: China tops enterprise networking spending in APAC
According to a report issued by the state-run China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), 88 million Chinese went online for the first time in 2008, a rise of 42% over 2007. With this increase, the number of people using the internet in China has surpassed 298 million. The nation now has more internet users than any other country in the world, with the total number nearly equal to the entire population of the US.
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