This report presents a comprehensive overview of the information, communication and technological sector in China, and the role it has played during economic and social transformation in the past decade. It provides guidance on the kind of reforms policy makers in China may wish to consider in...

Trends of IS&T in the First Half of the 21st Century -- The Strategic Requirements for IS&T in China -- Strategic Targets for the IS&T Development -- Building an Adequate Information Network -- Revolutionary Upgrade of Information Devices and Systems -- Developing the Data Knowledge Industry --...

Purpose - The study aims to take a step back and take the big picture of how digital capitalism is changing people's ways of living and production. On that basis, China should enhance its digital governance rationally and develop the digital economy efficiently, thereby bringing its socialist...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- I Networks Materialized -- 2 Internet Cafés -- 3 Going Wireless -- II The People of Have-Less -- 4 Migrants -- 5 Young and Old -- III A New Working Class in the Making -- 6 Places and Community -- 7 Life and...