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More About This Title China Fast Forward: The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainland's Golden Future
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China is tirelessly working to overcome its technological deficiencies by driving R&D initiatives in government and business and adapting Western Internet platforms for domestic use. It is extending its technological reach through a major drive to rival India as a services outsourcing leader and projecting its high-tech brands into the companies and homes of other countries. But whether China succeeds will depend on how it handles such issues as demography, energy dependency, and resource limitations.
The environmental challenges posed by China's vast manufacturing sector are well documented, but what isn't widely realized is that China is actually outstripping the West in all manner of green initiatives, renewable energy investments, research and development funding, and other areas essential to improving the health of the planet. However, omnipresent government intervention, environmental degradation, natural resource exhaustion, and other issues threaten to derail China’s rise to superpower status. As the country meets global challenges on a scale that few nations can match, China Fast Forward takes a look at what lies ahead and why China’s success is important to us all.
In this book, Bill Dodson explores China's reincarnation from a closed, agrarian nation into a modern, high-tech superpower bent on literally cleaning up its act.
- Presents an on-the-ground survey and analysis of China's renewable and clean energy sector that identifies the kinds of projects and technologies Chinese enterprises and local governments are hungry for
- Includes a discussion on how successful Chinese companies are developing their brands to go head-to-head with the world’s best-known companies
- Discusses how central government conflicts of interest are actually foiling corporate and official drives to innovation across a range of sectors
Taking a look inside China's march toward becoming a sustainable superpower through innovation, China Fast Forward presents a balance sheet of the country's technological and social progress on its path to becoming a world leader.
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Bill Dodson has been an industry analyst, advisor, and business manager in China since 2003. He has been quoted on China-related topics in Newsweek, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, the BBC, The Economist, Shanghai Business Review, China Economic Quarterly, and other international media outlets. A graduate of Cornell University, he is a columnist for the China Economic Review on the China energy sector. He makes his home in the Greater Shanghai area with his wife and son. Follow daily discussions on China innovation at thisischinablog.com
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Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xv
Chapter 1 Innovation Nation 1
Impure Research 4
The Patronage Party 5
Gimme a Big “I”! 7
What’s a Little Intellectual Property Theft between Friends? 10
Education 11
Grafting Innovation 13
A Cautionary Tale 16
The Glory That Was Ours 18
Chapter 2 The Fractured Web 21
Finger on the Button 24
Filtering for Profit 25
Just the Internet, Please; Hold the Coffee 27
Into the Fray 29
If You Can’t Beat ’Em 33
China Scrums 34
Chapter 3 The Silicon Paddies of China 39
The Hi-tech Face of China 42
If You Build It, They Will Outsource 44
Crouching Dragon, Leaping Elephant 47
A Tale of Two Outsourcers 51
On the Hunt for BPO in Deepest China 55
Chapter 4 Heavy Metal 59
Ships Ahoy! 61
Fast Car 65
A Ticket to Ride 69
Selling into Developing Countries 73
Chapter 5 Brand China 77
A National Image Made in China 79
When Being a Chinese Company Isn’t Cool 81
Beyond Cheap 83
Management Innovation 85
The Operation Was a Success. . . 87
What Was the Plan Again? 90
Red Flags 93
Branding Beyond Nationality 94
Chapter 6 Declaration of Energy Independence 97
Coal in China’s Stocking 101
Cleaning Up Coal’s Act 104
Economics Rules 106
Oily Risers 108
What a Gas 109
Breaking the Addiction 111
Chapter 7 Consider the Alternatives 115
Wind at My Back 116
A Little Ray of Sunshine 119
Damming Neighbors 124
Nuclear Deterrents 127
Welcome to Electric Avenue 131
A Battery of New Energy Technologies 134
Chapter 8 Errors of Emission 137
The Dark Side of the Sun 138
Get the Lead Out 141
Rare Earths, Common Pollution 145
When There Is No Longer a Backyard 149
Chapter 9 Dragon on a Diet 153
Watergy 155
Turning Water into Oil 156
Manufacturing Water 158
Building Sustainable Cities 159
Building Energy Effi ciency 161
Green Shoots 165
“Dunno Where It Came From” 167
Chapter 10 Assembly Required 171
Can’t We Be Civil? 173
“For We are Living in a Material World . . .” 177
Onward Christian Soldiers 178
A Charitable Streak 180
The Final Innovation 184
Hot House Innovation 186
Afterword The Curse of Steve Jobs 189
Indigenous, not Ingenious 191
The Scramble for Energy 196
Free Exchange 198
Oops! 199
A New Dialog of Discovery 201
Notes 205
About the Author 219
Bibliography 221
Index 223
