Abstract: “ITbased Country” Strategy is the concentrated reflection of Japan's strategy “basing the country on science and technology” on promoting the development of specific industries.Under the multiple pressure actuation, Japan greatly promoted the “ITbased” strategy with the construction of information infrastructure, the application of information technology and the social information construction as the core and continually developed and improved the strategic framework. In the process of implementing the “ITbased” strategy, Japan has made great strides in the aspects of toplevel design, infrastructure, social application and personnel construction to promote the strategy. And it has made remarkable achievements in information infrastructure, the level of information technology, information social construction and international competitiveness. Based on the experience of Japan, China should form the stepbystep strategic system, realize the division and cooperation among each innovation unit and pay attention to the combination of information development strategy and other strategies, especially the standard internationalization strategy in the development of information technology and related industries.

Key words: IT based Country, information infrastructure, application of information technology, information society construction