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Blue Book of Informatization is an annual research report on the development of China's informatization with panoramic perspective and authoritative viewpoints. The Blue Book devotes itself to providing the readers with an overall picture with respect to the status quo of China's informatization. In particular, the hot topics in ICT technologies, industries, and applications in various fields of China's economic, social, political and cultural domains, while putting emphasize on the new frontiers and forward-looking.

As distinct from the other annual publications relevant to China's informatization, this Blue Book is characteristic of objectiveness, impartiality, and comprehensiveness when it makes comments on the situation, policies, strategies, research outcomes and critical engineering projects of China's informatization. In fact, the Blue Book aims at the needs of the readers who want to have an in-depth understanding of what is going on with China's informatization.

The year 2012 issue of the Blue Book puts stress on the analysis and forecasting of the development of China's informatization and covers a large number of areas.

As General Reports (Part I), Zhou (paper 1) concludes that given that the Cyberspace has had tremendous impacts on China's economic, social, political and cultural domains, China has entered a Times of Cyberspace as the most developed countries have done, in addition, the governance of the Cyberspace both domestically and internationally are discussed; Liao and Gao (paper 2) summarize China's informatization development over the past ten years and present comments on the main achievements.
In the PartⅡ, Shen (paper 3) introduces "International Strategy for Cyberspace" of the United States, including its background, evolving course, objectives and impacts.
With respect to the development of newly emerging industries (Part Ⅲ) in connection with China's informatization, Wu (paper 4) introduces the main trends of ICT business circle, analyzes the evolution of relevant technologies, illustrates strategic adjustment of ICT enterprises, and discusses the challenges of innovation; Li (paper 5) indicates that the key point in developing cloud computing is to put applications first, while paying great attention to develop core technologies related to cloud computing; Luo (paper 6) presents the status quo and expectation of China's ICT industry based on China's ICT development based on the data of the period of 2011-2012; Lu (paper 7) deems that the power of the global ICT changes stems from mobile computing, which is toppling down the traditional markets of computing and mobile communication, and discusses China's strategy to deal with the changes; Liang (paper 8) analyzes the crucial factors that hamper e-commerce development in China and indicates the main issues in developing a better environment for e-commerce development in China.
With regard to China's information infrastructure development (PartⅣ), Yu (paper 9) indicates that the development track of the mobile internet has experienced dramatic changes and transformed smart terminals industry over the past four years or more, and mobile operation systems and smart terminal platforms are the key to occupy the newly emerging market.
As far as transformation of traditional industries in China (PartⅤ) is concerned, Pan (paper 10) presents his way to stimulate informatization development in China's villages, and indicates that the key is to find a sustainable business model while serving farmers with free of charge; Zhang (paper 11) introduces how China's aeronautical industry is benefited by smartly taking advantage of information technologies; Liu and his colleagues (paper 12) have developed an evaluation system to appraise the development levels of the integration of informatization and industrialization in China's industrial sectors; Zeng (paper 13) analyses the economic characteristics of cloud computing and illustrates the inevitability to promote industrial development by means of cloud computing; Huang and Wang (paper 14) give an overall picture with respect to the development and expectation of informatization in China's medium & small enterprises.
In terms of the development of e-government (Part Ⅵ) in China, two papers are presented. Qian and Li Huang (paper 15) explore the roadmap towards building smart cities under the circumstance of China; and Li, Luo and Zheng (paper 16) introduce the scale-map for land management in countryside and towns, which has been successfully used in Chengdu and Xi'an City and is a combination of traditional tool for the land management in ancient China with the modern information technology.
With respect to the impact of informatization on China's society (PartⅦ), Li and Liu (paper 17) analyze the great impacts brought by the Internet on China's social and cultural development and discuss the transformation of the essentials and structure of the society. The importance to create a better internet environment is discussed as well.
As the Blue Book has done before, attention is always given to the comparative studies both domestically and internationally (PartⅧ). Zhang, Lu and Chen (paper 18) deliver a domestic comparative study for the past year on regional development levels of informatization in China, and Chao, Gao and Ma (paper 19) analyze the causation of the down grade of China's informatization development indexes in an international comparative study, including ICT Development Index (IDI), e-Government Development Index (EGDI), and Network Readiness Index (NRI). Both of the papers can help readers to better understand China's position in the world in terms of informatization.

On the whole, almost all of the 19 papers included in the Blue Book are with broad visual fields, novel view points, rich contents, and full and accurate data, and accordingly, the value of the Blue Book is obvious.