sentences:  With the reform as the driving force, China's telecommunications developed steadily and rapidly throughout the Ninth Five-Year Plan period.The Tenth Five-Year Plan period will continue to make it a basic national policy to further China through science and technology, to push industrialization by virtue of the IT development and to explore a path for IT development suited to the national conditions.In addition, the China's accession to WTO is generally recognized as an external drive force to deepen and accelerate the telecommunication reform, because the domestic telecommunication market has gradually opened up to foreign investors and competitors.