The book deals with the Chinese economy and ways in which modern technology can improve its efficiency. It analyses the difficulties in respect to the assimilation of modern technology and proposes ways to overcome them.

Inhalt
One: Technology Management.- Deng's Reforms 19761988.- Domestic and Foreign Technology Factors Influencing Assimilation and Diffusion Capabilities.- From Technology Transfer to Technology Management.- Changing Chinese Thinking about Technology Transfer.- Two: Case Studies.- The Development of the Chinese Steel Industry.- Technology Transfer in China: The Case of Oxygen-Generating Equipment in Steel Industry, 19781988.- Three: China and the World in the Nineties.- A Summary of Global Technology Trends of Possible Strategic Interest to the People's Republic of China.- China and the World in the Nineties, Trends in New Technologies and Their Implications for China toward the 1990s.- China's Strategy for Agricultural Development in the 1990s.- Scientific and Technological Progress and the Revitalization of China's Economy.- China and the World in the Nineties, Deepening Reform for Technological Progress in China.- The Rapid Expansion of Economic Information in the 1990s and the Challenge to China's Economic Reform.- Contributors.