Pan Chunlai, the chairman of Century Village Group, who is committed to the construction of rural informatization, improves farmers' quality through informatization and changes farmers' ways of increasing income and getting rich, was elected as "20 10 Top Ten People of China Rural Informatization Year" at the 7th annual summit of rural informatization in China. The top ten figures of the year are Nie Linhai, deputy director of the Information Department of the Ministry of Commerce, Wang Maohua, academician of China Academy of Engineering, politician Sun Jian, director of the Public Meteorological Service Center of China Meteorological Administration, Sun Wenchang, director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, Wang Xiangdong, director of the Information Research Center of China Academy of Social Sciences, Ma Jian, chief scientist of Wuxi Internet of Things Industry Research Institute, Chen Dexing, general manager of China Telecom Guangdong Company, Zhan Jinchuan, chairman of Shanghai Agricultural Information Co., Ltd., and Pan Chunlai, chairman of Century Village Group.

This year's top ten figures selection has attracted extensive attention and participation from party and government organs, experts and scholars, enterprises and institutions. The evaluation expert group went deep into various sub-sectors of rural informatization to conduct research, solicited opinions from all walks of life, drew lessons from previous evaluation experience, and formed a perfect evaluation index system after many meetings and deliberations. The whole evaluation index system is divided into four major items: honesty and qualification, growth, innovation, industry or regional contribution and influence. Through the analysis of the index data, the three-dimensional evaluation was carried out, and in the spirit of quality prior to quantity, nine people were objectively evaluated as the top ten figures of the year.

Experts from the organizing committee of the contest said that these selected figures of the year represent the development of rural information industry and are the hope of the industry in the future.

The organizing committee of the contest also made an exclusive interview with Pan Chunlai, and Pan Chunlai introduced the services and platform features provided by the "Village of the Century" rural informatization comprehensive service platform to netizens.