The city of Wugang, where the municipal party and government offices have advanced alongside Wugang Steel, is rich in iron ore deposits and abundant water resources located upstream of the Huaihe River. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, it was a metal fabrication powerhouse producing the famous Longquan, Hop Bo swords. According to historical records, these swords established Wuyang Iron and Steel as China’s special steel business card. Many domestic famous buildings constructed in recent years—such as the Olympic Stadium Bird’s Nest, Water Cube, National Grand Theater, new CCTV building, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Soviet Union bridge—all use special steel from here.
In Wuyang Iron and Steel City, rapid economic development has led to progress in social undertakings. Since 2000, the city has won over 30 provincial-level honors including Henan Health City, Garden City, and Chinese Excellent Tourist City. With beautiful scenery blending forestry and mineral resources, it is resource-rich and economically developed. In 2004, the Wugang municipal government established goals for creating China’s Excellent Tourism City, National Garden City, National Sanitary City, and National Civilized City, aiming to fully improve the living environment and create a favorable investment climate. However, Wugang had limited visibility both domestically and internationally. In this era where branding is effective, in April 2004, according to the needs of economic and social development, the Wugang City E-Government Construction Leading Group was formally established with the mayor as the head and municipal party committee and municipal government leaders in charge as members of the related board committee responsible for the human crew.
In May 2004, Wugang City set up a unified platform for e-government in collaboration with Weale software to start constructing Wugang's e-government system. The network construction principles are overall design, safe and reliable, economical and practical, appropriate advancement step by step. The overall topology of Wugang City's informatization construction includes electronic Zhengwuzhuanwang (government intranet) and extranet, with private networks and external networks completely physically isolated. The city's unified e-government network infrastructure and platform use a three-tier network topology divided into the core layer, convergence layer, and access layer. The government designed a network central computer room core switch connecting seven main branch nodes, access layer switches, 8 Gigabit fiber as the core for the municipal people's congresses, governments, CPPCC four groups authority Gigabit backbone and 113 Mbps optical fiber connected to the municipal ministries, government departments, neighborhood offices, enterprises in the city, and above-scale enterprises. It is connected upward through Pingdingshan City's private network to the nationwide private network system, downward even to township offices, forming a public network platform for Wugang e-government cross-system, cross-sectoral, cross-cutting development of a stable, secure, manageable, scalable platform.
Collaborative office business resource integration network construction aims to break administrative barriers between different services, interoperability of information between different government agencies, collaborative applications as the goal, constructing various joint office business systems leading Wugang information resources integration and data sharing and collaborative progress. Collaborative office system unified platform includes four group common office systems, customizing four different interfaces. The system consists of office modules, email module, SMS module, and electronic signature module as the four main modules ensuring the timeliness and security of information transfer through the network platform and safety measures. Within the existing government processes of the four team organs, optimization, integration, interoperability, and sharing of information resources improve working efficiency, shorten the development cycle, reducing investment cost.
The city's various units of each committee, township and neighborhood offices, financial, corporate, and public four groups have a set of office information systems independently setting interface seamlessly realizing information resource sharing and parallel text wording, paperless document exchange, information collection, announcement notice, inspector supervision, electronic signature, official mail, mayor hotline and Mayor-mail and other functions improving document flow speed and office efficiency ensuring timeliness and good security.
Based on demand analysis reports, Wugang City's office automation system is divided into seven subsystems: personal office subsystem, document management subsystem, Chief transaction subsystem, document exchange subsystem, Public Information Sub-office subsystems, and systems management subsystem. Wugang collaborative office systems is a large-scale integrated general-purpose integrated office support system with functions including office portal, online process, document management, administrative services, public information, personal office, documentation centers, document exchange of information collection, supervision, meeting management, back-office, political research, management, file management, mayor hotline and Mayor-mail, leadership activities arrangements, electronic signatures, messaging services, system administration, more than 20 subsystems.
System construction characteristics include Wugang successful e-government application features emphasizing the integration of e-government within the city mainly as follows: Wugang e-government construction adhering to the principle that all levels of the municipal party and government agencies use collaborative office software, uniformly organized by network management services, coordination, implementation, maintenance. Emphasis on program design and overall planning prior to the system project, first conducting needs research, feasibility analysis, overall planning and program design, project tendering, making the initial program absorbing various developers' essence to modify its own program, deciding what kind of platform they need to build, what kind of system development, achieving which functions, doing a few chest. Integrating Zhengwuzhuanwang system by the province’s well-known enterprise Jiuzhou, from requirements analysis, program design to system implementation, closely coordinating, complementary advantages, performance apparent, short construction time, less investment, high efficiency ensuring the duration and quality of development under the premise of economic, reasonable, advanced exploration constructing an information technology new approach.
Building the city's unified network infrastructure and platform, and sharing resources construction of the city's e-government center room, municipal people's congress, government, CPPCC four groups authority and the city for each unit public network platform, a unified technical standard, a unified software, harmonizing equipment selection, ensuring the overall network architecture unity, the unity of information interactive mode, the unity of information resources organization system laying a good foundation for the city's informatization construction.
Wugang collaborative office systems using innovative good support graphical leading workflow management system system B, / S structure graphical workflow management system intuitive and easy to map out complex and varied business processes, DC, shunt, conditions, flow and auxiliary flow, free nested processes, original collaborative office systems supporting open-class applications system supporting centralized and distributed group applications meeting full integration synergies between the four agencies, government agencies and enterprises office needs.
Construction of the city's unified user management system realizing unified management and hierarchical management of the city users. Wugang City collaborative office applications ginger electronic signature system enhancing the significance of existing e-government applications complete document management and document exchange system, electronic signature keys encrypted for security, second sub-authentication, the system is safe, reliable, achieving good results.
Wugang e-government summed up in two characteristics: first, strong integrity; information technology is more thorough. Strong integrity reflects the entire Wugang city promoting information technology as a whole without engaging in sector division and four groups maintaining close relations of cooperation, coordination, and promoting each other in construction and use; complete performance only after a six-month run-in period, two groups of the municipal party and government achieve completely paperless office—without engaging in double rules system or leadership special treatment and all web-based document marking. Is applied: the city's integration of joint development system after one year of normal use, system equipment meeting system design requirements, system security with good performance, stable operation properly. 135 electronic Zhengwuzhuanwang network units, 256 subscribers, system put into operation, four team organs internal office automation, municipal ministries, municipal government departments, towns and street offices and financial enterprises documents, information transmitted over the Internet, forming the reunification of the city online collaborative office environment developing one-stop service creating a good foundation for realizing city-wide coordination office and resource sharing completely changing the traditional means of office and administrative mode in Wugang Steel City. Through the private network system issued more than 118,000 documents, received more than 110,000 documents, document exchange documents more than 27,000, each unit submitted more than 13,400 pieces of information to the municipal Government Chief Information system running not only saving about 700 million yuan for units in the city in terms of paper, transportation, telephone, printing and other costs but also enhancing the government's internal office efficiency and service levels for the general public playing an active role in economic construction and development of Wuyang Iron and Steel City. Through the integration of collaborative office network, you can see the construction of information technology role in promoting the development of the city leading Wugang rapidly progressing towards comprehensive development.