In Strategic ICT standardization by China we ask the question: So what effects can be expected from this level of political involvement? The role of China is also in the spotlight in the latest issue of Fortune magazine China buys the world (read article here).

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The Chinese government is showing considerable interest in ICT standardization. The Chinese State Council’s official policy clearly states a long term goal to reduce dependency of foreign ICT technology and to reduce payments to foreign innovators.
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The Chinese policy to promote “indigenous innovation” is perhaps most evident in the telecom sector as recent developments show.
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Chinese authorities have identified ICT industry as a key sector for future development and allocating significant resources to spur innovation; the plan is for national R&D expenditures to reach 2.5 percent of GDP 2020. The Chinese State Council’s official policy clearly states long term goals for Chinese ICT development and a direct goal to reduce foreign dependency.
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We are afraid today about important economy using standards as barriers to trade or as imposing views on other parts of the world. But is that different behaviour than other large countries did in the past or still do?
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中国自主創新与信息通信技术标准

China’s policy of promoting indigenous innovation in ICT industries is bifurcated, with large-scale, capital intensive development in a few urban centers supporting the national strategy of becoming an exporter of technologies and standards, while enterprises in provincial cities and towns are left to fend for themselves with few central government subsidies or protections, writes Jane K Winn.
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Last Thursday 1st October People’s Republic of China celebrated its 60th anniversary. On the celebration march in the Tiananmen Square, China showed its new weaponry, the majority of which are ‘indigenously’ developed and shown for the first time to the world. Thereby China demonstrated its hard power in increase. However, what we should pay more attention to is China’s recent rise in, and its commitment to, soft power.
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After the establishment of the mobile telephony infrastructures in Europe and the US during the 1990ies, the Asian mobile markets, especially China moved into the focus of industry and policy. The policy makers in China were well aware on the one hand that the large Chinese market was able to serve as a base for the establishment of a mobile telecommunication standard as a tool for supporting the development of the national industry. On the other hand, they also perceived that the technological capacity of Chinese firms ten years ago was not sufficient advanced yet to elaborate a China-specific  mobile standard that might eventually be competitive at international markets. However it is not clear that there was a rational and concerted policy process across the Chinese government with regards to telecommunications: one would argue that telecommunications policy and industry policy were operating rather separately.
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Please join our open online forum on “ICT standardization in China” on Wednesday, October 7 at 2 PM (CET).

The purpose of this forum is to discuss some issues relating to China and its ICT standardization process and policies, including for instance the Chinese government’s policy to promote the development of indigenous innovation.

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