Coming in 2026! A new book offering the first comprehensive Western assessment of China’s national digital strategy: Digital China. Extensively researched, this book will provide a rare system-wide view of the ideology and ambitions driving Beijing’s digital future.
Section One. What is the Digital China strategy?
Chapter 01. Xi Jinping Clicked a Mouse and Launched a Digital Revolution
Chapter 02. Understanding Digital China Through Grand and Global Lenses
Chapter 03. A Digital Triad: Cyber Great Power, Digital China, and Smart Society
Chapter 04: Intelligentization Evolves: From Informatization to Digital Intelligence
Section Two. Strategic Driver: Winning the Digital Age
Chapter 05. Historical Materialist Guide to the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Chapter 06. Party Control of Data
Chapter 07. Digital China as Digital Socialism in Practice
Section Three. Strategic End: Digital Great Power
Chapter 08. Digitalization of Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict
Chapter 09. Digitalization of National Governance
Chapter 10. Digitalization of Global Development
Chapter 11. New Quality Military-Civil Innovation
Section Four. Strategic Ways: Digital Transformation
Chapter 12. Digital Transformation of the Five Sphere Integrated Plan
Chapter 13. Digital Economy
Chapter 14. Digital Society
Chapter 15. Digital Government
Chapter 16. Digital Culture
Chapter 17. Digital Ecology
Section Five. Strategic Means: Digital Technology
Chapter 18. Technology Missions
Chapter 19. New Type Infrastructure
Chapter 20. National Data Infrastructure
Chapter 21. Digital Technology Innovation System
Chapter 22. Digital Security Barrier
Section Six. AI Ecosystems
Chapter 23. Internet Plus to AI Plus
Chapter 24. Case Study: New Type Smart Cities
Chapter 25. Case Study: Industrial Internet
Chapter 26. Case Study: National Smart Education Platform
Section Seven. Conclusion
Chapter 27. Smart Cities, Smart Society, Smart China
Chapter 28. China has a comprehensive national digital strategy. Let’s build ours.
Appendix A. Historical Timeline
Appendix B. Environments, Levels, Plans, Missions, and Programs
Appendix C. Key Players
Appendix D. Key Documents
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