The realization of these projects will make a revolutionary change on Chinese information technology developments. According to an estimate of the Chinese government, by the year 2000, office automation will be implemented in most of the administrations and more than 5000 large enterprises will have computerized management systems while hundreds of them will implement CIM systems. With regard to recommendations, the authors believe that some factors should be taken into account by the Chinese government to further information systems development in China. Public recognition of importance of information for the country's development is a crucial factor. Lack of wide support for information systems development has been believed to be the main cause of the failures of many information systems in China.
Chinese characteristics can also determine the fate of information systems.
Development experience in foreign countries must be tailored to the local situation. Many Chinese-specific characteristics, such as politics, culture, economic development level, and so forth play a very important role in Chinese information systems development. New system development methodologies covering the whole the system development life cycle need to be explored. Information system developments should not been treated only as implementations of technologies. They are actually very complicated society-related processes.