Information society with Chinese characteristics : discursive evolution of the neo-industrialisation strategy in the people's daily

Hong, Yu (author)

By focusing on the Chinese official discourse of "neoindustrialisation" published on the People's Daily, this article not only provides an understanding of the Chinese official understanding of information society and information economy, but also foregrounds the issue of information in China's conflicted reintegration with global capitalism. This article argues that, deviant from the Western discourse of post-industrialism, the neo-industrialisation strategy promotes a coordinated effort to both "industrialise" and "informationise" the economy. Moreover, pragmatic concerns with China's realities, including unfinished industrialisation, structural unemployment and the domestic demands for all-around national development, all find echoes in the discourse of neo-industrialisation. By providing a politicaleconomic contextualisation of this discourse, this article also strives to provide an insight of the most recent plan of forming a "super" Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the Chinese government, which was announced in March 2008.

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2008
• Number of pages: Str. 23-38
• Numbering: Vol. 15, no. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-76210
• UDC: 316.4
• ISSN on article: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 27702109
• Publication date in RUL: 21.12.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Javnost = The public
• Shortened title: Javnost
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis, European Institute for Communication and Culture
• ISSN: 1318-3222
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40119808

Secondary language

• Language: Unknown

Abstract

Članek obravnava uradni kitajski diskurz o "neoindustrializaciji" v časopisu People's Daily (v angleščini na spletu). S tem ne prestavlja samo uradnega kitajskega razumevanja informacijske družbe in informacijske ekonomije, ampak tudi pomena informacij v protislovni kitajski reintegraciji v globalni kapitalizem. Članek dokazuje da strategija neoindustralizacije v nasprotju z zahodnim diskurzom o postindustrijski družbi promovira prizadevanja tako za industrializacijo kot informatizacijo ekonomije. V diskurzu neoindustrializacije odmevajo pragmatični problemi Kitajske, kot so nedokončana industrializacija, strukturna nezaposlenost in domače zahteve po splošnem nacionalnem razvoju. Z ekonomsko kontekstualizacijo tega diskurza članek omogoča vpogled v najnovejši načrt za oblikovanje "nadministrstva" za informacije in industrijo, ki ga je kitajska vlada predstavila marca 2008.