IT Sector
Commentary
1. Introduction
2. Foreign Investment
- Foreign DIrect Investment: "Encouraged" IT Projects
- Foreign-Invested Venture Capital Enterprises
- Research and Development
3. Software and Integrated Circuits
- Local Policies: Shanghai
- Intellectual Property Rights
4. Electronic Hardware
- Tariff Reductions and Export Subsidies
- The China Compulsory Certification Mark
- Consumer Protection
- International Expansion
5. Internet-Based Business
- Regulatory Authorities
- Internet Content
- Internet-Based Audio and Video Transmissions
- Internet Cafes
- E-Commerce
- Local E-Commerce Legislation: Guangdong Province
- National E-Signature LegislationÂ
- Security of Online Transactions
6. Conclusions
1. Introduction
2. Industry Development
- Emergence of a Commercial Industry
- Introduction of Competition
- China Unicom and Foreign Investment
- Formation of the Ministry of Information Industry
- Recent Restructuring
- Issues Related to Increased Competition
- Interconnection Problems
- VoIP anf PHS
- Convergence
- Division of Authority among Network Regulators
- Creation of the State Informationization Leading Group
- Case Study: Broadband
3. Regulatory Framework After WTO Accession
- Telecommunications Regulations
- Post-WTO Access
- The Telecoms Catalog
- The FITE Rules
4. Foreign Investment: Telecoms Equipment and Services
- Equipment Manufacturing
- Stategic Development through Technology Imports
- Current Competition among Manufacturers in China
- Expansion of Domestic Manufacturers into International Markets
- Connectivity
- Telecom Services
- Direct Foreign Investment
- Indirect Foreign Investment
- Satellite Communications
- Prohibition of Direct Foreign Investment
- Strict Regulation of Domestic Players
- Future Regulation of Satellite Communications Â
5. Conclusion
