Study on ICT Industrial Integration in New Industrial Revolution: A Survey of Chinese Mainland and Taiwan

In today’s world, two changes are going on- reconstruction of global manufacturing value chain and remodeling of trade and investment patterns. In the background, developing cross-strait economic cooperation in depth by promoting industrial integration will be a win-win choice. It is better for improvement of welfare to the people on both sides of Taiwan straits. Furthermore, the electronic information industry is a field which is most essential and necessary to be integrated for Mainland and Taiwan. With the integration of electronic information industry, both sides will face not only more opportunities with the new round of global industrial revolution coming, Asia-Pacific regional economic integration and new strategies for the mainland China in further opening to the outside world, but also more challenges such as uncertainties in core technical breakthroughs, multi-track operation in Asia-Pacific regional economic integration, and the changes of Taiwan political situation. This paper describes the foundation for cross-strait ICT industry integration and the challenges in its new newly-developing industries by the qualitative analysis from technology, economy, politics and mainland China. Finally it is intended to bring about the paths needed for the integration. The results suggest both mainland and Taiwan should establish common industrial standards based on capital integration and further specialization and cooperation in the industrial chain. Besides that, both sides should jointly develop and break through major core technologies gradually to realize the integrated development in an all-around way.