Company Profile

  The predecessor company of Capinfo Limited Company ("Capinfo"), namely, Capital Information Development Company was established in January 1998, whose six shareholders were the Beijing Finance Bureau Capital Administration Branch, the Post and Telecom Data Network, Beijing Telecom Investments, Beijing Sino-Sky, Beijing Cable Broadcasting and China Financial Data Network. On December 21, 2001, Capinfo was successfully listed at the Growth Enterprise Market of Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

  In the past five years, with the quality guideline of creating a reliable online business environment and providing quality network application services, Capinfo has practiced the mode of BOO (BUILDING-OWNING-OPERATION), which is the first attempt in China, and undertaken the building, operation and maintenance of many major information-oriented projects in Beijing, including Capital Public Information Platform(CPIP), Beijing E-Government Private Network, Beijing Social Security Information System, Beijing Community Services Information System, the Beijing Citizen Card Project, E-Commerce and Payment System, the Digital Information Kiosk Project, Space Information System and Beijing Emergency Rescue System and so on, thus building an image of the provider for the operation and building of a digital city.

  Since the Beijing's bidding for the Olympic Games until now, Capinfo has proactively participated in the building for the Olympics, making big efforts for the Olympic activities, and has the honor to join in the building and maintaining of the preliminary website and the middle level website for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Bidding Committee (BOBICO) and the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG).
At the same time, taking the advantage of rich experience on the building and operation for digital city, Capinfo actively expands its market of digital city in China, which has co-operated with the provinces and cities including Guangxi, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Yingkou and Wuhan.


Qualification Certificates

In the past five years, our company has obtained a series of important qualification certificates as follows:
- Obtained the Certificate for High & New Technology Enterprise issued by the Beijing Science & Technology Committee;
- Passed the authentication of ISO9001 Quality System;
- Obtained the Certification of First-grade System Integration for Computer Information from the Ministry of Information Industry;
- Obtained the Certificate for Qualification of Bidding Agency issued by the Beijing Drug Administration;
- Got the Certificate of System Integration for Computer Information concerning State Secrets from the National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets;
- Obtained the Import/Export Enterprise Qualification Certificate issued by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation;
- Acquired the Certificate of Software Enterprises issued by the Ministry of Information Industry.


Capital Public Information Platform

The capital public information platform（CPIP） is the basic platform for the informatization of Beijing. The part of network in the platform, including e-Government and public services, is designed, built, owned，operated and maintained by Capinfo Company Limited. Various informatization application systems of the Digital Beijing Project can realize information exchange through such platform; meanwhile, the businesses of G2G, G2B, G2C, B2B, B2C and C2C can also depend on this platform to be developed.

CPIP covers 18 districts and counties of the Beijing city and its local area wideband information network has realized interconnections and links with several major network resources and information resources, such as CHINANET, Beijing CATV Network, China Education Network, China Science and Technology Network and Xinhua Net.

Beijing E-Government Private Network

Beijing E-Government Private Network is constructed under the order from the Beijing municipal government, which is based on the Capital Public Information Platform with the addition of some optical fiber instruments. It is a kind of broad-band information network established among different sections of the municipal government and all the district and county governments, which realizes a high-speed connection of the internal networks of the government affair relating organs. The network aims at ensuring the information security of the internal networks of all the state organs in Beijing, meeting the demands of the states organs for broad band networks, and avoiding repeated construction. The E-Government Private Network is listed in the key construction programs of Beijing in 2001 and 2002, which is constructed and operated by the Capinfo Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Capinfo).

1. Construction Aims

By the end of 2001, equipment of optical fiber network and broad band access for the government will be finished with coverage of eighteen district and county governments as well as fifteen key commissions, offices, and bureaus (experimental institutions in e-government), so as to offer a nice network basis environment for the on-line examination and approval of e-government.

By the end of 2002, broad band connection between the two business-handling bureaus of the municipal committee and government and all the state organs, courts as well as procuratorates shall be finished. Meanwhile, it shall be interlinked with institutions like libraries and archives offices so as to enrich the information resources reservoir of Beijing government affair.

By the end of 2005, a complete and high-speed broad band government affair information private network will be constructed covering the whole territory of the city, so as to offer high-speed, safe, and reliable multi-media network services to the goal of fully implementing the e-government in Beijing.

2. Construction Fruits

By the end of 2002, construction of the e-government private network has finished the scheduled connection of the municipal Committees of the CPC, Peopl's Congress, Political Consultative Conference, Government and the institutions directly under their leadership into a unified government affair information platform. The optical cable is approximately 1,000 kilometers in length and covers eight districts and ten suburban districts and counties.

Applications based on the E-Government Private Network have been carried out gradually. Operation systems already constructed now include Confidential Communication Network of Beijing CPC and Administrative State Organs, Beijing Investment Programs Approval Platform, Credit Information System of Beijing Enterprises, Beijing Electronic Documents Transmission System, Rural Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control System of Beijing, Beijing Public Security Golden Shield Network, and Beijing Counting Information Operation Private Network etc.

3. Experience Summing Up

1) Overall planning and labor-dividing system is adopted in the construction of the E-Government Private Network, which accelerates the construction of the infrastructure in informatization.

2) Centralized construction generates nice economic benefits

1. Unified mode of centralized construction adopted by the municipal government reduces investments greatly, and the specific optical fiber network for government affair fully meets the demand of the state organs for security.

2. A professional team takes charge of the operation and maintenance of the private network, which realizes the goal of high efficiency and low cost. What's more, the system runs stably with shared services.

Community Services Information System

The flow of community services operation decides the basic framework of the digital community services information system. Thus it is of key importance. The Capinfo Company imited (hereinafter referred to the Capinfo) has introduced a community services solution based on a model of multi-communities services call center in accordance with the community service status and condition of different regions. As the most easily acceptable information communication method to the community residents, the calling center within the system acts as the gateway and supervising node. It also takes charge of the efficient management and appraisal of the services and the service suppliers, so as to reap an abundant harvest both in social and economic benefits.

With the development of community services system, the Capinfo has established a corresponding management system of the credit ranks of community services. As the key link in the community services system, the management system occupies an important seat in the community services, which includes regulations on the appraisal, auditing and management of the service suppliers of all levels. It also introduces consummate scientific management into community services and puts all the indexes of the community service suppliers into specific figures. It fixes each item of assessing guidelines through spot-checks on fixed dates and also responding interviews of the customers, so as to be impartial and just. Meanwhile, it also urges the service suppliers to raise management level and enrich service devices with the aim of optimizing the whole industry.

Main operation applications of the community services information system concentrate on three major operation types, including information consultation, community services, and, information feedback. The system uses explorer to process the following operation functions:

Telephone communication record: The telephone-picker answers the telephone call from the customer, registers the information according to the demands of the customers, and generates a service list submission system.

Center and manpower route: The system will process automatic route to service lists with accurate addresses, while those with inaccurate addressed will be routed by manpower.

Street operation management: Dealing with service lists distributed to the street concerned, and maintaining related information of the street.

Central operation processing: Processing related operation distributed by the central route to the city center.

Surveillance and operation processing: Surveillance and management in services, consultation, processing flow of feedback operations, and abnormal instances.

Central information auditing: Centralized auditing and approving of the consultation information and related data on the service suppliers.

Basic Information Management: Unified management in such information contents as customers, consultation information, services, seats, and the system etc.

Operation of Inviting Public Bidding for Medical Consuming Materials

The Capinfo Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Capinfo) has launched an on-line operation of inviting public bidding for purchase of medical consuming materials for 24 medical institutions of Beijing, which includes bidding items for such medical equipments as one-off iatrical macromolecule consuming materials, artificial crystalloid, artificial arthrosis, cardio-pacemaker, and intervention treatment consuming materials etc. Through incessant practice and accumulation, the Capinfo has developed a "Capinfo Platform of Inviting Public Bidding for Purchase of Medical Consuming Materials" for the aforementioned operation. This program includes information issuing of public bidding invitation notice, downloading and enciphered uploading of bidding documents on quoted prices, bidding assessment system, price negotiation system, and purchase and sale system etc., so as to provide the customers with professional services.

1. Service on the enciphering of bidding documents on quoted prices
Quoted prices of the products are sensitive and crucial through the bidding process, thus the secrecy of the bidding documents on quoted prices is of key importance. Regarding this, the Capinfo designed and developed the function of enciphered uploading of bidding documents on quoted prices which adopts the Beijing CA Digital Certificate and thus endows the documents with sufficient safety and secrecy.

2. Service on safe bidding assessment and price negotiation
In the process of bidding assessment and price negotiation, instead of working via the public internet, the Capinfo invites all the bidding assessing and price negotiating experts to work jointly through the assessment and negotiation systems developed by the company. This measure ensures the safety of bidding assessment and price negotiation as well as a temporal unification and high working efficiency.

3. Service on the immediate updating of purchasing information
In the process of purchasing, so long as any hospital issues a new order form, or any enterprise accepts an order form of the hospitals, the system will immediately inform the enterprises and hospitals through the communication center, so as to equip them with sufficient knowledge on the state of the order forms.

4. Service on safe payment
This service supports safe on-line payment.

Geographic Information Technology

The Capinfo Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Capinfo) is dedicated to the development of application systems centered on Global Position System (GPS), Geographical Information System (GIS), and Remote Sensing (RS), on the basis of which it constructs a unified platform and forms an integrated system of geographic information technology, thus providing both government and enterprise customers with an all-around service on space information.

The Capinfo, with the adoption of the kernel "3S" geographic information technology, is engaged in offering such services as urban space information infrastructure and basic framework construction, resources disposal, application platform building, and information providing etc. At present, the Capinfo has offered all-around services on such industries and fields as city planning, municipal affairs administration, forestry investigation, integrated pipeline construction, Olympic projects, urban GPS application, and GPS assistant command in public security and frontier defense etc., through which it has accumulated precious experience.

Digital Beijing Information Kiosk

The digital Beijing information kiosk refers to the self-service terminal facility installed in the public places, which provides commonweal information and value-added services with the use of the technologies on computer information networking, touch screen, information inquiry and multimedia. The Beijing Shoutong Wanwei Information Technology Development Co. Ltd is planning to provide the citizens colorful content and application services with the digital Beijing information kiosks in the streets, communities, governmental departments, shops, hotels, office buildings, hospitals, exhibition halls and restaurants.

The digital Beijing information kiosk has opened 6 channels, covering the aspects of residence, transportation, shopping, culture, government affairs, and fashion and 23 columns totally, which can provide the service of facilitating people, e-Government and e-Commerce. The core service is to help the people in their payment of fees and charges, tickets selling and any inquiry for facilitating people.

The details of the contents of the services of every channel and column are as follows:

Residence--- including three columns of house market in Beijing, home decoration and hotels and restaurants. In the column of house market in Beijing, there is recommended the hot building projects in selling and provided with the information on real estate.?The column of home decoration can help you to realize the dream of having a go-as-you-please home.

Transportation--- has three columns of e-map, travel and automobile time. Detailed bus guides and driving routes are available in the e-map. With the help of this column, you can travel all places in Beijing without asking the way.

Shopping--- contains five columns, namely, digital card, tickets of performances, tickets of films, flower and present, and discount information. Ticket center can print the tickets of parks, films and performances for you quickly. The operation is very easy. Discount information will give you many surprises.

Culture --- covering six columns, including: performance signboard, entertainment searching, windows of science, watching films, English learning of citizens and educational trainings. You can obtain the latest and firsthand culture information from this channel.

Government Affairs --- including the columns of mailbox of mayor, on-line office, state departments, policies and regulations and Beijing Olympic Games.You can inquire all kinds of policies and regulations and guides, as well as some hot issues that citizens concern.

Fashion Zone --- it contains five columns as performance signboard, surprising discount, watching films, postcards and entertainment searching. E-postcard passes the true love between friends. Your present can be very special by inserting the on-site photos. Performance signboard provides forecast of wonderful programs, and the new association of cinemas will tell you the latest information on films.Share the fashion with your friends and enjoy your unique young time here.

Credit Management

the Beijing Credit Management Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred as Credit Company), which was jointly established by the investors such as Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. and Capinfo Company Limited (hereinafter referred as Capinfo), is an agency of credit inspection and evaluation supported by the municipal government.
Based on the scientific collection and processing on the credit information, the Credit Company provides credit products and services for the government, enterprises and residents by the existing channels in the market on credit inspection and with the support of governmental departments on credit information sources at all levels.

Products

1. Personal Credit Report
Upon the agreement and authorization by the addressee, the Credit Company provides a personal credit report to an accredited party in personal loans and other credit dealings through combining information from various units of credit information sources.

2. Credit rating report of enterprises
The scope or content of such report includes:
i. Credit rating of enterprises and enterprise bonds;
ii. Credit rating of financial enterprises and financial bonds;
iii. Related rating services for construction of enterprise credit system of Zhongguancun;
iv. Related credit rating services for financial support project of medium-and-small sized enterprises in Beijing;
v. Credit rating of debt tools in capital market;
vi. Evaluation of enterprises on credit quality.

Services

1. Collection service of commercial debt:
Regarding to overdue payment and other bad behaviors by customers, the Credit Company, upon consignment of the creditor and in the name of the credit company, can send professional dunning letter for commercial debt to the debtor and inform him that the discreditable behavior of overdue payment by the debtor could badly affect its credit record and credit rate, transferring the individual conflict between the creditor and the debtor to the conflict between the debtors and the whole society and greatly increasing the discreditable cost of the debtor, thus making frighten effect on the discreditable behavior of the debtor.

2. Services faced to banks, insurance and warranty companies:
i. Service of credit investigation: under some certain circumstances, the credit investigation should be carried out upon the acknowledgement and authorization of the investigated person and the business shall be developed according to the demand of customers. It also provides related credit information in processes of making strategies of sales and risk management for customers.
ii. Evaluation service: based on credit data of customers, along with model evaluation, to provide customers with tailored credit scoring and rating services.
iii. Marketing management service: to provide sufficient information and related value-added services for developing, maintaining and consolidating customer relations. iv. Information product service: the Credit Company collects a great deal of information on credit dynamic and makes in-depth analysis, so it can customize information products and offer help to customers in knowing the dynamic and latest developments trends of industry credit in a timely and accurate manner.
v. Consultation and training services on credit management: The senior experts in the Credit Company can provide professional solutions on credit management for customers, carefully design training courses and help customers to improve management level of internal credit risk.

Beijing Emergency Rescue System

Building the Beijing Emergency Rescue System is one of the specific measures adopted by the Municipal Party Committee and local government of Beijing with the aim of doing concrete things for citizens and facilitating the life of the general public. It is also the need of coping with major sudden happenings and of improving the comprehensive operational capabilities of the city, as well as of building an international metropolis. And it is all the more important for the successful holding of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In 2001, the Beijing government decided to build a safe, stable and modern Beijing Emergency Rescue System, which is directly led and coordinated by the local municipality and can respond quickly. Therefore many departments such as the General Office, the Information Office of the local government had formed a working team and made surveys, researches, expert reasoning and investigations for more than two years. At last, Capinfo Company Limited (hereinafter referred as Capinfo) obtained the contract for building of the Beijing Emergency Rescue System through bidding and Beijing Zhongjiaxun Information Technology Co., Limited, which is invested by Capinfo, will undertake the construction task.

Ⅰ. Solution

1. Contents of Construction
The contents of the construction include 12 modules, namely, call center system, rescue acceptance system, computer assisting control system, information dealing system of answering and handling alarms, information transmitting and transferring system, geographic information system, management information system, database, assistant decision-making supporting system, networking system, network system and command center and wireless control and communication system.

2. Operational Modes
i. To be managed by the local government (a dependency management mode).
ii. To be accepted in a centralized way and dealt with according to its classification.
iii. To make the various specialized alarm centers as the dealing sub-systems.

Ⅱ. Prospect
Under the leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and local government of Beijing, Beijing Zhongjiaxun Information Technology Co., Limited will make efforts to build the Beijing Emergency Rescue System into one of the best emergency linkage and community comprehensive service systems in our country. Based on the system construction in Beijing, we will promote it in the national market, while keeping the guidance of introducing, absorbing, digesting and innovating as always.

Application of Digital Certificate

In Feb of 2001,Beijing government allows the company to build a "Centre of Beijing Digital Certificate Authentication".The following certificate can be given from the company:
Personal Certificate，Enterprise Certificate，server Certificate，VPN Certificate.

E-Government Public Service Platform

E-Government public service platform is the core application software developed by Capinfo Company LImited(hereinafter referred as Capinfo) to support the development of the electronic office and online public service for governments at all levels. It is a fundamental and practical software platform positioned between operation system and practical e-Government applications with features of high-level middleware.

I. Functions and Features
It mainly includes functional templates, such as content management, file exchange, security mechanism, user/authority administration, working flow engine, log/audit management and unified information service and so on, meanwhile, it provides an open, stable, flexible and expandable software framework for e-Government application, providing an operational environment for the e-Government public service application system with the capability for the secondary development.

II.Key Technologies
The key technologies involved in the e-Government public service platform mainly include:
1. XML technology: information exchange in isoformed system platform and data pool and between different files of different systems;
2. XML-based reliable asynchronous information exchange technology;
3. Web Service technology: (including XML, WSDL, UDDI and SOAP and etc.): to realize loose-coupled integration technology of official business (such as administrative examination and approval) among all levels of governmental departments and between governmental departments and enterprises.

Beijing E-Government Private Network

Beijing E-Government Private Network is constructed under the order from the Beijing municipal government, which is based on the Capital Public Information Platform with the addition of some optical fiber instruments. It is a kind of broad-band information network established among different sections of the municipal government and all the district and county governments, which realizes a high-speed connection of the internal networks of the government affair relating organs. The network aims at ensuring the information security of the internal networks of all the state organs in Beijing, meeting the demands of the states organs for broad band networks, and avoiding repeated construction. The E-Government Private Network is listed in the key construction programs of Beijing in 2001 and 2002, which is constructed and operated by the Capinfo Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as the Capinfo).

1. Construction Aims
By the end of 2001, equipment of optical fiber network and broad band access for the government will be finished with coverage of eighteen district and county governments as well as fifteen key commissions, offices, and bureaus (experimental institutions in e-government), so as to offer a nice network basis environment for the on-line examination and approval of e-government.
By the end of 2002, broad band connection between the two business-handling bureaus of the municipal committee and government and all the state organs, courts as well as procuratorates shall be finished. Meanwhile, it shall be interlinked with institutions like libraries and archives offices so as to enrich the information resources reservoir of Beijing government affair.
By the end of 2005, a complete and high-speed broad band government affair information private network will be constructed covering the whole territory of the city, so as to offer high-speed, safe, and reliable multi-media network services to the goal of fully implementing the e-government in Beijing.

2. Construction Fruits
By the end of 2002, construction of the e-government private network has finished the scheduled connection of the municipal Committees of the CPC, People's Congress, Political Consultative Conference, Government and the institutions directly under their leadership into a unified government affair information platform. The optical cable is approximately 1,000 kilometers in length and covers eight districts and ten suburban districts and counties.
Applications based on the E-Government Private Network have been carried out gradually. Operation systems already constructed now include Confidential Communication Network of Beijing CPC and Administrative State Organs, Beijing Investment Programs Approval Platform, Credit Information System of Beijing Enterprises, Beijing Electronic Documents Transmission System, Rural Epidemic Disease Prevention and Control System of Beijing, Beijing Public Security Golden Shield Network, and Beijing Counting Information Operation Private Network etc.

3. Experience Summing Up
1) Overall planning and labor-dividing system is adopted in the construction of the E-Government Private Network, which accelerates the construction of the infrastructure in informatization.
2) Centralized construction generates nice economic benefits
1. Unified mode of centralized construction adopted by the municipal government reduces investments greatly, and the specific optical fiber network for government affair fully meets the demand of the state organs for security.
2. A professional team takes charge of the operation and maintenance of the private network, which realizes the goal of high efficiency and low cost. What's more, the system runs stably with shared services.

Middle Level Website of BOCOG

The construction of the middle level website of BOCOG is the continuance of and improvement to website of BOBICO and the primary website BOCOG, which has the functions of information release and browsing. Under the support and authorization of BOCOG and the supervision and aids of the construction supervisor, Capinfo, as an integrator of applications and systems, is responsible for overall project management of BOCOG middle level website, dealing with problems on integration in the formation of overall website system at various technical levels, establishing overall safety guarantee system, controlling the quality of construction and project risks and organizing relevant trainings.

Yitian Intelligent Searching Engine of Capinfo

Yitian intelligent searching engine system of Capinfo is a scientific research fruit for the project of Chinese Intelligent Searching Engine based on the State High-tech Research Development Plan( 863 Program). It has experienced more than 5 years of R&D and application and is providing all-round, quality and tailored navigation services to the customers of government and enterprises with its steady performance and powerful searching function.

At present, the main customers for Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo include Window of Capital, e-Government of Beijing, Fangshan Information Net, Party Construction of Beijing, Governmental Affairs of Xuanwu District, Beijing Planning Commission, Beijing Economic Commission, Beijing Supervision Bureau of Beijing Disciplinary Inspection Commission, Beijing Window for Science Popularity, Beijing Informatization Office, Capital Electronic Shopping Mall, Beijing Family Planning Commission, Beijing Public Security Bureau, Beijing Personnel Bureau and Beijing Information Net for Community services.

Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo 2.0 is the latest production in this series. It can fully support the Chinese concept search, mix search with Chinese and foreign languages, in station search, channel search and group search of industry sites and realize the functions of all-web system maintenance interface, distributable installation, flexible configuration and remote maintenance with brand new technical features. The details are as follows:

1. Chinese Concept Search
Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 adopts many aspects of technologies like artificial intelligence, natural language processing and corpus linguistics. It realized the concept search of Chinese text based on the tailored knowledge base of customer by flexible concept association function for the first time, then make feedback in the level of concept for the search by the customer and further providing intelligent navigation service according to the content. It is a breakthrough that such engine realized the concept search for Chinese text information, which is faster, more correct and intelligent comparing that of the traditional search at the level of key words.

2. Strong Function of Information Collection
The CapSpider used by the Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 is a network tool software developed by Capinfo and can resolve the code of JavaScript and dynamic web page, using the multithreading to analyze and reach web page, as well as to download the designated website (group)/ web page (group) by the customer in a quick and steady way.

3. Functions of Search
i. Group search of industry sites
The powerful function of information collection, direct-view and clear management interface and high configurable search service of Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 make the administer of the website group can easily manage the website group, and add or cancel the website search engine of website group according to the specific needs.
ii. Channel search
The Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 can singly collect, configure and search the information with different sources and classifications, realizing channel-specific search.?
iii. In station search
The Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 may provide the function of in station search for the website with industry features and rich information, reducing the complicated step-by-step searching procedures for users.

4. Mix Search with Chinese and Foreign Languages
The Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 adopts the information processing method based on the combination of letters and words and can support the search in Chinese and in English at the same time.

5. Distributable Installation
The Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 adopts real distributed system structure, supporting the service for multi-computer, realizing load balancing and reducing the requirement for hardware system, thus satisfying the needs of the customers at different levels.

6. Remote Maintenance
The Yitian intelligent searching engine of Capinfo2.0 is a system management platform based on the Web, so the administer can make direct-view remote maintenance and arrangement for the system by using normal browser only.

General Framework,Kernel Technologies & Application Projects of the City Informatization

Research on city informatization is carried out on the basis of key programs of the "National 863 Program" and the "National Science and Technology Key Problems Tackling Plan", including such key tasks as "the Overall Framework of the Informatization of the Capital City, Key Technologies and Applications Projects" as well as programs like "Research And Application of Community Electronic Commerce and Modern Goods Flowage" and "Tentative Project of E-Commerce of the Capital" etc. The research on urban informatization aims to push forward our former research in this field and break through a series of key and common technologies relating to urban informatization. And, it also aims, basing on the practice of such demonstration projects as the Capital e-Government, E-Commerce, Medical Treatment Insurance, and Community Information Popularization etc, with the success experience of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chengdu, and Wuhan etc. in informatization, to make out the overall framework and application regulations of the urban informatization of the country, thus provide theoretical and practical support to the stipulation of the guide lines and overall planning of the national urban informatization, and naturally ending in the promotion of standard regulations as well as technological projects of the category and raising the informatization level of our country.

1. Research on urban informatization includes:
1) Concept, connotation, and overall framework of urban informatization;
2) Solution to general information platform and its standard and criterion;
3) Solution to public service electronic popularization and its standard and criterion;
4) Technological research on the common key technologies supporting urbane informatization;
5) Assessment index system of urban informatization

2. Success stories of application
Research achievements of urban informatization have been successfully applied in cities like Beijing, Nanning, Yingkou, and Dongguan etc. Detailed application programs see below:
1) Construction and operation of the Capital Public Information Platform
2) Construction and operation of the Beijing Security Authentication Center
3) Construction and operation of the Platform of Beijing Public Payment
4) Construction and operation of the Project of Beijing Medical Treatment Insurance
5) The Project of Beijing Community Service
6) The Project of Beijing Citizens' Cards
7) Overall Planning of Beijing E-Government
8) Planning of Zhongguancun E-Commerce
9) Planning of the Informatization of the Yingkou City
10) Planning and Construction of the Public Service of the Nanning Municipal Government
11) Planning of the Informatization of Shilong Town, Dongguan City

Research on Multi-Lingual Information Service System

The 2008 Olympic Games are scheduled to be held in Beijing, by which time thousands of athletes, celebrities in the sports circles, journalists, and millions of spectators will gather together around, so much so that language will become the bottleneck of communication. Thus tackling of this problem has become the focus of the rest of the world.

Research on the multi-lingual information service system aims at breaking through the language bottleneck bound to protrude in the 2008 Olympic Games. The multi-lingual services it aims to offer includes mainly the official languages of the Unite Nations, namely Chinese, English, French and Spanish etc., which is a giant intelligent information service system based on broad band network and facing both within and without the Olympic gymnasiums (including touring areas, public places and business centers). It is also designed to offer "Any One" and "Any Device" intelligent multi-lingual information services at "Any Time" and "Any Where", which include public customers-oriented multi-lingual intelligent information broadcast and explanation as well as Olympic participants-oriented individual and intelligent multi-lingual information consultation. The research panel is currently undertaking the research on the general framework of the system of "Olympic Games-oriented multi-lingual intelligent information network" and the development of its experimenting system.

Multi-lingual information service system will entitle guests from all over the world to various information services offered by the multi-lingual information processing platform like information issuing, information consultation, and interaction between the customer and the machine etc., through which multi-lingual communications will be achieved smoothly during the Olympic Games, and thus enhance our mutual understandings and friendship. Besides enabling the Olympic Games to be organized and held smoothly, it could also achieve the goal of holding a "humanistic Olympic Games" through the adoption of "Olympic Technologies". Multi-lingual information service system will sure become a highlight of the 2008 Olympic Games and consequently will raise greatly the prestige and influence of our nation.