The Evolvement of Standards in China
The Evolvement of Standards in China

Author: Sabrina Weithmann

Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783848743674

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This book analyses why Chinese technology standards deviate from international standards. The research it contains is based on four periods of field research in Beijing that involved 70 expert interviews. The data gathered throughout these interviews resulted in a detailed case study on the Chinese standardisation system and particularly the electric vehicle sector. The book's application of complexity theory shows that the evolvement of deviating standards is a substantial component in the development of the Chinese standardisation system. This is further explained by its use of a 'Three Phase Standardisation Development Concept'. This book fills a gap in existing research, especially because it focuses on a developing country with a standardisation system that is in transition. Sabrina Weithmann focuses her research on green technology and conducts research on the impact of related business models on standardisation and regulation in the energy sector.

China's Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructuring
China's Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructuring

Author: Zheng Yongnian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1317818814

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In the past three decades, China has successfully transformed itself from an extremely poor economy to the world’s second largest economy. The country’s phenomenal economic growth has been sustained primarily by its rapid and continuous industrialisation. Currently industry accounts for nearly two-fifth of China’s gross domestic product, and since 2009 China has been the world’s largest exporter of manufactured products. This book explores the question of how far this industrial growth has been the product of government policies. It discusses how government policies and their priorities have developed and evolved, examines how industrial policies are linked to policies in other areas, such as trade, technology and regional development, and assesses how new policy initiatives are encouraging China’s increasing success in new technology-intensive industries. It also demonstrates how China’s industrial policies are linked to development of industrial clusters and regions.

Powerful Arguments
Powerful Arguments

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-02

Total Pages: 633

ISBN-13: 9004423621

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The essays in Powerful Arguments reconstruct the standards of validity underlying argumentative practices in a wide array of late imperial Chinese discourses, ranging from historiography, philosophy, law and religion to natural studies, literature, and the civil examination system.

Beyond Government Control of China's Standardization System -- History, Current Status and Reform Suggestions
Beyond Government Control of China's Standardization System -- History, Current Status and Reform Suggestions

Author: Ping Wang

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13:

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This Think Piece traces the ancient sprouting of standardization in China, the evolution of the Chinese standardization system including the formation of governmental management system in the planned economy period, the adjustment of the system after the reform and opening-up, the overview of the current standardization system, the evolution of the government-dominated standardization strategy, and its achievements and weaknesses. The paper argues that the top- down, government-centered standardization system was instrumental for China's successful catching-up, now needs to adjust to new challenges.The current standardization management system of the government primarily formed during the planned economy period and deeply rooted in the Chinese tradition and culture of the long history. The main characteristics of current system are the institutional fragmentation and the multi- decision-making entities of government. The reform measures and the strategy adopted by China's government in the field of standardization have been approved generally successful in the economic development. The technology-following strategy and the standard dual-adoption policy adopted at the initial stages for the reform and opening-up (1980-2000) made the technology transfer function of standard fully played. Standard became a effective channel for the technology spillover effect in the course of trade. In China's rapid economic development period (2000-2010), the strategy of using standard to foster and promote indigenous innovation by the government was also very effective, and weaknesses of system were not obvious during that period. However, after the slowdown in economic growth started (2010-2015), problems caused by the government's role in standardization have been becoming more and more prominent, including excessive governmental intervention, multi-decision-makers discordance and innovation hindering. Government withdrawal in the most part of voluntary standardization management is a prerequisite for cultivating self- organized private standardization.

China's Development Priorities
China's Development Priorities

Author: Shahid Yusuf

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 082136510X

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"Over the past two decades China's growth has been rapid, social indicators have improved, and poverty levels have inched downward. However, widening inequality, increasing resource and financial imbalances, and growing environmental concerns provide China with daunting challenges in improving the quality of growth. The rapid growth that will remain China's principal vehicle for raising standards of living and reducing poverty will derive from urbanization, increased market efficiency, and improvement in the technological capability of Chinese firms. But although growth will be critically important, balance among income groups and sectors is likely to be vital for social stability. The needed measures to enhance the quantity and quality of social services and a more effective safety net for the poor will require a number of institutional changes, including a reform of intergovernmental fiscal relations. Directed at readers working in economic policy, poverty reduction, social development, and urban and municipal finance, China's Development Priorities highlights the significance of the challenges facing China and suggests policies for achieving rapid, balanced, and sustainable growth."

Early China
Early China

Author: Li Feng

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-12-30

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0521895529

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A critical new interpretation of the early history of Chinese civilization based on the most recent scholarship and archaeological discoveries.

The China Model
The China Model

Author: Daniel A. Bell

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2016-08-23

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1400883482

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How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracy Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and “bad” authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as “political meritocracy.” The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? And how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions and more. Opening with a critique of “one person, one vote” as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages and pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy and democracy, and argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable and politically stable. Bell summarizes and evaluates the “China model”—meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, and democracy at the bottom—and its implications for the rest of the world. A timely and original book that will stir up interest and debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century.