China’s Digital Divide

James B. Pick () and Avijit Sarkar ()
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James B. Pick: University of Redlands
Avijit Sarkar: University of Redlands

Chapter Chapter 5 in The Global Digital Divides, 2015, pp 113-154 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract China has the world’s largest base of information technology users, growing in this century at exponential rates. During the study period of 2006–2009, substantial regional differences existed in China in ICT utilization. In the Chinese conceptual model twelve independent factors are posited to be associated with eight technology utilization factors. The government data introduce culturally specific factors such as workers in non-state-owned enterprises and number of web pages. The most important ICT correlate is export commodities value, followed by published books, tertiary employment, non-state-owned workers, and innovation funds. Cluster analysis indicates the outlier, dominant mainland provinces are Beijing and Shanghai, with a second level of relatively high ICT provinces nearby and vast rural areas of low technology use. Policy implications for China are distinctive regional policies depending on ICT intensity, including Central-policy, low-end industry transfer model, overseas model, and model for China’s West, Center, and North. Cases of Alibaba and Google highlight the rapid growth, exporting aspect, and obstacles of ICT in China.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Policy Area; Digital Divide; Global Supply Chain; World Economic Forum (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-46602-5_5

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