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Rural Informatization in China

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

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.

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  • Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang & Asheeta Bhavnani & Nagy K. Hanna & Kaoru Kimura & Randeep Sudan, 2009. "Rural Informatization in China," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 5934.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbpubs:5934
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    1. Liu, Chun, 2012. "Seeking the Best Practices in rural agricultural informatization: Evidence from China's Sichuan Province," 19th ITS Biennial Conference, Bangkok 2012: Moving Forward with Future Technologies - Opening a Platform for All 72547, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    2. Michael Minges & Kaoru Kimura & Natasha Beschorner & Robert Davies & Guanqin Zhang, 2014. "Information and Communications in the Chinese Countryside : A Study of Three Provinces," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 18032.
    3. Liu, Chun & Wang, Lian, 2021. "Who is left behind? Exploring the characteristics of China's broadband non-adopting families," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(9).
    4. Ting, Carol & Yi, Famin, 2013. "ICT policy for the “socialist new countryside”—A case study of rural informatization in Guangdong, China," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(8), pages 626-638.
    5. Juan Lin & Han Li & Mingshui Lin & Chuhai Li, 2022. "Rural e‐commerce in China: Spatial dynamics of Taobao Villages development in Zhejiang Province," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 53(3), pages 1082-1101, September.
    6. Liu, Chun, 2016. "Sustainability of rural informatization programs in developing countries: A case study of China׳s Sichuan province," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 40(7), pages 714-724.

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