China Fast Forward (ePub)

Will China Surpass the United States as an innovation
nation?

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.