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Volume 82 – No. 1

China’s Leadership in the World ICT Industry: A Successful Story of Its “Attracting-in” and “Walking-out” Strategy for the Development of High Tech Industries?

Lutao Ning

DOI: 10.5509/200982167

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This paper questions whether China’s “attracting-in” (selective introduction of inward foreign direct investment, foreign technologies and import) and “walking-out” (export and outward investment expansion) strategies have enabled it to achieve a leadership position in the world information and communication technology (ICT) industry. In 2004, China overtook the US to become the world’s largest ICT exporter. The author argues that “attracting-in” has successfully created favourable conditions for the industry to grow out of China’s transitional economic and political system, but has been unable to facilitate “walking-out” to enable Chinese enterprises to substantially achieve a real leadership position. This is because there is great uncertainty in how to adjust the industrial strategy of the East Asian “catching-up” era to meet the challenges raised by the dynamism of global competition today. Rather than provoking head-to-head competition, China’s rise in the world ICT industry has complemented the increasing specialization of multinational corporations.

Domination de la Chine dans le monde de l’industire de haute technologie et de communication (ITC): Est-ce une histoire à succès sur ses stratégies de “attracting-in” et “walking-out” du développement de l’industrie de haute technologie?

Ce papier met remet en question les stratégies de la Chine à attirer les investissements, “attracting-in”, tels que l’introduction d’investissements directs étrangers à l’intérieur, ainsi que de technologies étrangères et d’importations et, l’exportation, “walking-out”, telle que l’expansion d’investissements vers l’étranger, à savoir si ces stratégies lui ont permis d’atteindre une position de leadership dans le monde de l’industrie informatique et de communication (ICT). En 2004, la Chine ratrappa les Etats-unis pour devenir le plus grand exportateur mondial. L’auteur soutient que la stratégie pour attirer les investissements a crée avec succès des conditions favorables à l’industrie lui permettant de surmonter un système politique et économique transitoriel, mais s’est trouvée dans l’incapacité de faciliter l’exportation, “walking out”, permettant aux entreprises chinoises d’atteindre d’une manière substantielle une véritable position de leadership. Ceci est dû à une grande incertitude sur la manière d’adjuster les stratégies industrielles durant la période de “rattrapage” de l’Asie de l’Est, pour faire face aux challenges érigés par le dynamisme de la concurrence internationale actuelle. Au lieu de s’affronter de plein fouet à la concurrence mondiale, une Chine en plein essor a joint ses efforts à la spécialisation grandissante des corporations multinationales dans l’industrie internationale d’information et de haute technologie (ICT).

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