1st Edition

China's Rise in the World ICT Industry Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up Development Model

By Lutao Ning Copyright 2009
272 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

290 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

One of the most striking phenomena of China’s remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech. China is now the world's largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) exporter, having overtaken Japan and the European Union in 2003 and the United States in 2004. China's ICT industry is also the largest manufacturing sector within the Chinese economy.... Read more

Part 1: Industrial and Trade Development: The Role of the State during Globalization  1. Introduction  2. Trade and Market Liberalisation, Economic Growth, and Industrial Policies: The State Role in Economic Development  Part 2: The Development Pathway of the ICT Manufacturing Industry 1949-1993: Creation, Reform Rationales and Development Context  3. The Creation of the Electronics Industry: Military Driven Development 1949-1978  4. The "Opening Up" Reform and State-led Growth 1978-1993  Part 3: Making the ICT sector a ‘pillar’ industry: China’s Catching-up strategies since the early 1990s  5. Big Business Strategy and Small and Medium Enterprise Strategy  6. "Attracting-in" and "Walking-out" Trade and Investment Strategy  7. The "Breaking-Through" Strategy of China’s ICT Industry: Dynamic Technological Catching-up and Challenges in Developing the Semiconductor Sector  Part 4: Rethinking the Notion of State Intervention: Lessons and Limitations from the Chinese Experience Challenges in Developing the Semiconductor Sector  8. The Development Model for the Chinese ICT Manufacturing Industry  9. Theory and Policy Lessons: Rethinking China’s ICT Development Experience

Biography

Lutao Ning is a political economist at the Department of East Asian Studies, Cambridge University. He was a visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Science and Peking University. His research interests include globalization and industrial and trade policies in developing countries.

'Using China's ICT industry as a case study, Ning offers insights on the debate over the role of the government in economic development. Summing Up: Recommended. Comprehensive Chinese economics collections serving upper-division undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and professionals.' -- D. Li, Kansas State University, CHOICE, February 2010