Communications and information in China

de Xing Fan

Communications and Information in China is a focused analysis of the four fundamentals of the Chinese communications and information sector: (1) dynamic landscape, which includes, most importantly, status, trends, directions, initiatives and characteristics of the Chinese IT and communications industries; (2) policy and regulatory framework, which represents a very hard-to-understand mish-mash of the Chinese political and regulatory structure that has significant impact on where, how and what Chinese IT related industries are heading to; (3) ten most crucial regulatory and strategic issues that derive from China's domestic, political, economic and technological realities and controversies; and (4) foreign involvement, which covers high stakes, critical challenges and contextual forces that international companies face. In-depth discussion also digs into what implications China's telecommunications industry reform and its WTO accession will have on foreign players who are involved in China's enormous but complex IT and communications market.