Conversation
10.25.13
Can State-Run Capitalism Absorb the Shocks of ‘Creative Destruction’?
Following are ChinaFile Conversation participants’ reactions to “China: Superpower or Superbust?” in the November-December issue of The National Interest in which author Ian Bremmer says that China’s state-capitalism is ill-equipped to absorb the...
Sinica Podcast
10.24.13
Innovation in China
from Sinica Podcast
In China, innovation has become one of those political buzzwords which—like harmony—seems to mean anything and everything to the Central Propaganda Department. So much so that we find it difficult to walk down the streets in Beijing now without...
Viewpoint
10.16.13
Innovation in Britain and What it Means for China
On the occasion of a high-level British delegation’s visit to Beiing this week, Vincent Ni, the long-time New York-based U.S. correspondent for the independent Caixin Media group, shared his views about China’s ability to innovate relative to what...
Conversation
10.10.13CCTV Network News Broadcast
from Free Republic
Following is a transcript of the network news broadcast of China Central Television on September 30, 2013:央视网消息(新闻联播)： 9月30日上午，在中华人民共和国64周年国庆前夕，On the morning of September 30th, on the eve of the 64th anniversary of the People's Republic of...
Reports
10.01.13
China’s Absorptive State
Nesta
A great deal of speculation surrounds China’s prospects in science and innovation, as with other aspects of China’s development and heightened visibility on the global stage. The same pitfalls—of hype, generalization, and only partial awareness of...
Caixin Media
09.04.13
China’s Shale Gas Development Goals Just Pipe Dreams
China wants to reap the benefits of a shale gas revolution similar to the one in the United States, but there are many obstacles to this happening, experts say.In the first half of 2013, fifty-six shale gas wells were in the exploratory phase in the...
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Need, Speed, and Greed
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Reports
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Game-Changing China: Lessons from China about Disruptive Low Carbon Innovation
Nesta
Big hydro, big solar photovoltaic, and big wind—these are the usual focus of accounts of low-carbon technologies in China. But a very different type of innovation—ranging from a farm cooperative in Yunnan, to woodchip and corn pellets in rural...