Rural Informatization in China

Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, Asheeta Bhavnani, Nagy K. Hanna, Kaoru Kimura and Randeep Sudan

No 5934 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: China's recent economic growth has expanded industrialization and urbanization, upgraded consumption, increased social mobility, and initiated a shift from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry and services. Still more than half of China's people still live in rural areas where average income per capita is less than a third of the urban average, a gap that is among the largest in the world. Reducing these differences is critical to building a harmonious, inclusive society. This report draws from background research conducted by the advisory committee for state informatization, and attempts to provide an overview of China's rural information and communications technology (ICT) development primarily in the past 15 years. The report first describes the status of China's rural informatization infrastructure. It then reviews existing rural ICT initiatives in China and summarizes them by organizational models. International examples are included to draw lessons from. Finally, the challenges of rural informatization are examined, and policy recommendations identified to address them.

Keywords: Information; and; Communication; Technologies-ICT; Policy; and; Strategies; Private; Sector; Development-E-Business; Technology; Industry; Education-Education; for; the; Knowledge; Economy; Macroeconomics; and; Economic; Growth-Knowledge; Economy; Industry (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8213-8018-5
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