now many industries can't work without computers. When did computers become popular in China? What are the benefits of computer popularization? Let's have a look.
In the early 1980s, the first wave of computer popularization was set off in China. In 1981, CCTV, the computer popularization Committee of the Chinese Electronic Society and CCTV jointly held a lecture on computer knowledge popularization, in which I taught basic language to the whole country. In that year, the number of viewers exceeded 1 million, and the next year, the annual rebroadcast exceeded 3 million. In a country with one fifth of the world's population, it is of great significance not only for China but also for the world to launch such a massive mass popularization of computer knowledge.
In the first wave of computer popularization, the popularization targets are mainly the following three kinds of people: (1) teachers and students of non computer majors in universities; (2) some in-service scientific and technological personnel and management personnel; (3) some middle school students in big cities. The popular content focuses on computer knowledge, especially computer advanced language. Through ten years' efforts, computer courses have been widely offered in all majors of the University, ending the history that university graduates still belong to "computer blindness". We have reached the following consensus: computer knowledge is an indispensable and important part of the knowledge structure of contemporary intellectuals.
In the 1990s, the second wave of computer popularization appeared:
Since the early 1990s, the second computer popularization climax has been set off in China. If the first climax is mainly aimed at intellectuals with a higher education level than university, then the second climax has been extended to the majority of public servants, enterprise managers and general intellectuals with a higher education level than high school, including all the personnel in the organs, groups, schools and enterprises. The range of objects involved is much wider than the first wave of computer popularization. This popularization has the characteristics of occupation and post, and the ability to apply computer has become an important condition for people to apply for jobs. All departments around the country have formulated the requirements on computer for staff in promotion, title and work assessment, and required to pass the corresponding computer level examination. The popular content is mainly word processing and some commonly used application software.
After the second wave of computer popularization, we have narrowed the gap with developed countries in the field of computer application, and we should have a sufficient estimate of the achievements in computer popularization in this decade.
At the beginning of the new century, the third upsurge of computer popularization appeared:
Just entering the 21st century, people have clearly seen a new upsurge of computer popularization in China. The popularity of this climax is aimed at all people with culture.