Small-scale industries in rural areas in China are today an essential element of regional development programs. This monograph analyzes two main development strategies. One involves technology choices in a number of industrial sectors, most of which were initiated during the Great Leap Forward in the late fifties. The scaling down of modern large-scale technology through a product or quality choice, combined with changes in the manufacturing processes, is discussed at some length for nitrogen chemical fertilizer and cement.The other approach is the integrated rural development strategy where a number of activities are integrated within or closely related to the commune system. This strategy includes industry as only one component of many instruments where improved public health, education, and improved agricultural technology contribute to achieving such policy objectives as increased employment and productivity.

Rural Industrialization in China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Business & Money

Sigurdson, Jon

Economics

Harvard University Asia Center

Technological Superpower China explores how China is becoming a technological superpower within the global economy by integrating its national R&amp;D programmes with the innovation systems of national and international corporations. Jon Sigurdson provides a thorough and comprehensive analysis of China’s knowledge foundation in technology and R&amp;D following its dynamic march forward in the early 1980s. 
The author describes how China’s narrow window of opportunity - before becoming an ageing nation - has prompted the country to hurriedly mobilize resources in the hope of becoming a technological superpower within the next few decades. He examines how advances in higher education, human resources development, technology access through FDI, technology transfer, ICT, space and defence technology and corporate technology are being exploited in the race to emerge as an advanced knowledge economy nation. 
Exploring the changes in China that are transforming the technological landscape of the country, this book will be a fascinating read for academics, students and researchers interested in China’s development, the foundations of its economic growth and its role in regional and political affairs.

Technological Superpower China

Jiang, Jiang

Kong, Xinxin

Wang, Yongzhong

Tang, Yuli

Edward Elgar Publishing

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