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3 FOREWORD T oday, China is moving rapidly toward fulfillment of its objective to become an “innovative society” by 2020. The implications of this transition are multifold and will bear significant consequences for the future of global information and communications technology (ICT) and other high technology sectors. A core component of this strategy is the development of indigenous innovative activities, or zizhu chuangxin. China has highlighted the development of technology standards as an integral part of this broad goal, and as a result, over the past several years we have witnessed China strengthening domestic institutions for standardization and increasing its activity in international standards bodies. With the country having emerged as a large and fast-growing market and an increasingly important site for a wide range of innovation-intensive activities within regional and global production networks, China’s policies in the area of standards are now a subject of intense interest for the international business community as well as for the academic and policymaking communities in many of China’s major trading partners. Over the past five years NBR has directed a research project to examine a range of issues associated with standards-setting policy in China that has resulted in several international conferences, articles, reports, and briefings for policymakers. Marking the culmination of the third phase of this ongoing research initiative, this report both sheds new light on the environment in which China is developing its own standards-setting policies and assesses the implications and prospects for the success of these efforts. Given the importance of China’s development in this area, standards and innovation policy in China will continue to be a priority research area for the Economics and Trade Affairs Group at NBR. As such, we are already in the process of undertaking a new round of research on this important topic. We would like to express our appreciation to Scott Kennedy and Richard (Pete) Suttmeier for their service as project research directors who played key roles in developing the agenda for the round of research that lead to this report. Their leadership was instrumental in ensuring a successful research project. We are also indebted to the third author of this report, Jun Su, who has partnered with NBR over the past three years by hosting workshops and conferences in Beijing, writing papers, and giving presentations. We would like to thank Professor Su for his all-around support of the project. Finally, we would like to thank Yao Xiangkui for his support of this project, in particular for the tremendous amount of work he put into the Chinese-language translation of this report. Eric Altbach Travis Tanner Vice President, Economic and Trade Affairs Senior Project Director The National Bureau of Asian Research The National Bureau of Asian Research ...

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