[PDF] Chinas Telecommunications Revolution eBook

Author : Eric Harwit
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191607932

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China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the PRC expects to quickly pass the US in total numbers of connected citizens. The number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere 2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China has been the most successful developing nation in history for spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace. This book tells how China conducted its remarkable "telecommunications revolution". It examines both corporate and government policy to get citizens connected to both voice and data networks, looks at the potential challenges to the one-party government when citizens get this access, and considers the new opportunities for networking now offered to the people of one of the world's fastest growing economies. The book is based on the author's fieldwork conducted in several Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet, mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also considers the country's internal "digital divide", and questions how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally, it examines the ways the PRC's entry to the World Trade Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications growth.

Author : Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1134042671

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This book examines China’s information and communications technology revolution. It outlines key trends in internet and telecommunications, exploring the social, cultural and political implications of China’s transition to a more information and communications rich society. It shows that despite remaining a one-party state with extensive censorship, substantial changes have occurred.

Author : Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,38 MB
Release : 2007-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821367218

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Since 1997, China has devoted considerable resources to information and communications technology (ICT) development. China has the world's largest telecommunications market, and its information technology industry has been an engine of economic growth growing two to three times faster than GDP over the past 10 years. E-government initiatives have achieved significant results, and the private sector has increasingly used ICT for production and service processes, internal management, and online transactions. The approaching 10-year mark provides an excellent opportunity to update the policy to reflect the evolving needs of China's economy. These needs include the challenges posed by industrialization, urbanization, upgraded consumption, and social mobility. Developing a more effective ICT strategy will help China to achieve its economic and social goals. Addressing all the critical factors is complex and requires long-term commitment. This book highlights several key issues that need to be addressed decisively in the second half of this decade, through policies entailing institutional reform, to trigger broader changes. This books is the result of 10 months of strategic research by a World Bank team at the request of China's State Council Informatization Office and the Advisory Committee for State Informatization. Drawing on background papers by Chinese researchers, the study provides a variety of domestic perspectives and local case studies and combines these perspectives with international experiences on how similar issues may have been addressed in other countries.

Author : Roselyn Hsueh
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 2017
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Over the last 15 years, the African continent has undergone a telecommunications revolution, with hundreds of millions of Africans newly connected to each other and the rest of the world. How is this connected to China's rising engagement with the continent? What are the political economic implications? This paper contends that Chinese and African government motives, domestic contexts, and distinct methods, including principle of non-interference, diplomatic and financial backing, and contractual business guarantees, characterize Chinese participation in the development of African infrastructure for both resources and markets. The study shows that two dominant modes of engagement between China and Africa have emerged to wire Africa for the 21st century: infrastructure-for-resources and infrastructure-for-markets bargains. The effects are three-fold. First, these distinct modes of engagement shape the timing and pace of telecommunications growth. Second, political leaders have used China-Africa infrastructure bargains to their political advantage, which are not always beneficial to the public at large. Finally, the role China plays to supply equipment and build infrastructure contributes to the globalization of Chinese state-backed companies, state-owned and privately owned alike. These arguments are substantiated by a comparative case research design, which focuses analysis on the role of Chinese-African engagement in telecommunications between 2000 and 2015 in Angola and Nigeria, two African oil-producing countries that differ in political and economic aspects.

Author : Xiongjian Liang
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,70 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781560729136

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This book explains the history, current situation, market size and technological level of China's telecommunication industry in detail. It also provides an introduction to the main operators in China and their respective market shares and network technologies. Information about major equipment manufacturing enterprises and their major products is also provided, and their competitive strengths are analyzed. Finally, the book describes the evolution of China's telecommunication regulatory regime, the changes in telecommunication policies and the reform of regulatory practices. The impact of these reform measures is then briefly evaluated.

Author : Deborah Davis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780520216402

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This wide-ranging collection of essays by leading sociologists on the new consumerism of post-economic-reform China is an important contribution to our understanding of Chinese society and culture.

Author : Xing Lu
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1643361481

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A startling look at revolutionary rhetoric and its effects Now known to the Chinese as the "ten years of chaos," the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76) brought death to thousands of Chinese and persecution to millions. In Rhetoric of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Xing Lu identifies the rhetorical practices and persuasive effects of the polarizing political language and symbolic practices used by Communist Party leaders to legitimize their use of power and violence to dehumanize people identified as class enemies. Lu provides close readings of the movement's primary texts—political slogans, official propaganda, wall posters, and the lyrics of mass songs and model operas. She also scrutinizes such ritualistic practices as the loyalty dance, denunciation rallies, political study sessions, and criticism and self-criticism meetings. Lu enriches her rhetorical analyses of these texts with her own story and that of her family, as well as with interviews conducted in China and the United States with individuals who experienced the Cultural Revolution during their teenage years. In her new preface, Lu expresses deep concern about recent nationalism, xenophobia, divisiveness, and violence instigated by the rhetoric of hatred and fear in the United States and across the globe. She hopes that by illuminating the way language shapes perception, thought, and behavior, this book will serve as a reminder of past mistakes so that we may avoid repeating them in the future.

Author : X. Shen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 16,43 MB
Release : 1999-04-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1403905509

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This book provides a detailed insight into China's endeavours to acquire the advanced technical competencies which lie at the heart of modern telecommunications. Distinctively detailed first hand material is presented in two contrasting case studies in the field of public digital switching systems. The book explores the deep problems that beset the former socialist system, how these are changing in the face of China's economic transition and its distinctive technological policy of 'walking on two legs'. An invaluable guide to China, The Chinese Road to High Technology also offers important insights into the issues facing other developing countries.