Deputies at the ongoing 4th Session of the 9th National People's Congress (NPC) called for legislation to protect networking security at a possible earlier date to regulate China's booming IT industry.
Formulation of such a law is a must to regulate people's behavior, said Tsinghua professor Shen Jingzhu. In recent years, many problems have occurred in the IT industry, such as severance of undersea cable linking China and the US which blocks information transmission, junk E-mails dumping from heretic Falun Gong and hackers spreading computer virus on the Internet. Law making must be of perspective to block all possible potential problems.
Many business forms have been developed online like taxation, insurance and contract signing and these are far from being standardized or normal, law making is lagging behind, said NPC deputy Cai Qi from Zhejiang Province.
Laws and regulations previously promulgated in this regard are more general principles than detailed rules operational in practice.
Even relevant articles in China's "Criminal Law" can not meet the demand of a ballooning IT industry, says Cai. Law making protecting networking security and even the state has become an urgent task to boost a net economy in China in the 21st century.
March 14, 2001
Source: www.people.com.cn
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