| Since our country has accelerated overall information construction form 1990 s, the progress of information socialization and society informatization is accelerating. Knowledge and information have become the most important factors of production and social development and are becoming more and more important in the daily consumption of people. A new consumption pattern of the knowledge society, information consumption, has been formed. Information consumption ability is a comprehensive concept to evaluate the information consumption quality and quantity of residents. Well research of information consumption ability can better explore the influence factors and development direction of information consumption. Consumption ability influences the whole consumption market of a country. If the current domestic consumption problems are solved, the problem of insufficient domestic demand can also be relieved to a large extent. However, people have insufficient understanding of the nature and connotation of information consumption ability, the great importance of information consumption and the relationship between information and consumption.Social condition support system including governmental policy orientation and related industries is not complete yet. Therefore, this paper will make a systematic investigation on the development conditions of information consumption of urban residents of our country in the current stage to find out problems of national information consumption ability development at present and make deep research on them.This paper makes a horizontal and vertical comparison on the information consumption ability of urban residents of our country on the basis of domestic and foreign research on information consumption and analyzes different features shown in the development process of information consumption ability of urban residents of our country in detail. Besides, this paper explores the influence factors of information consumption ability of city and down residents of our country deeply through factor analysis and summarizes their change rules. It puts forward relevant strategies and suggestions at the end. This paper is in 5 chapters. Chapter 1 is the introduction, which organizes related domestic and foreign academic researches and generalizes the discussion problems, research meaning, research contents and research methods to provide research ideas to the whole paper. Chapter 2 is the theoretical basis of information consumption ability, which is divided into consumption ability theory, information consumption theory and information consumption ability theory. Chapter 3 is the overview of development stages of information consumption ability of domestic and foreign residents. It describes and compares the development process, current situations and development features of information consumption ability since the start of domestic and foreign information revolution. Chapter 4 is the factor analysis of influence factors of information consumption ability of city and down residents of our country. It tries to complete the assessment indicator system of information consumption ability of city and down residents of our country, uses disposable income of residents, information consumption expenditure per capita of residents, number of people who have received higher education, proportion of information industry value added in GDP, urban broadband access, number of people in telecom and other information transmission service industry and age structure as the assessment indicators to analyze the features of information consumption ability of city and down residents during the development process on such a basis and work out the conclusion. Chapter 5 puts forward policy suggestions on analysis conclusions according to the development situations of national information consumption ability. 1. The investment in information industry information consumption ability of city and down residents shall be expanded; 2. The information consumption service pattern shall be changed; 3.The income of city and down residents and residents consumption quality shall be improved; 4. The information industry shall be developed through planning and coordination; 5. The information consumption product market shall be completed. |