China fast forward: a blueprint of technologies, green industries and innovations driving china's future (hardback) The Technologies, Green Industries and Innovations Driving the Mainland′s Future

China is tirelessly working to overcome its technological deficiencies by driving R&D initiatives in government and business and adapting Western Internet platforms for domestic use. It is extending its technological reach through a major drive to rival India as a services outsourcing leader and projecting its high-tech brands into the companies and homes of other countries. But whether China succeeds will depend on how it handles such issues as demography, energy dependency, and resource limitations.

The environmental challenges posed by China's vast manufacturing sector are well documented, but what isn't widely realized is that China is actually outstripping the West in all manner of green initiatives, renewable energy investments, research and development funding, and other areas essential to improving the health of the planet. However, omnipresent government intervention, environmental degradation, natural resource exhaustion, and other issues threaten to derail China’s rise to superpower status. As the country meets global challenges on a scale that few nations can match, China Fast Forward takes a look at what lies ahead and why China’s success is important to us all.

In this book, Bill Dodson explores China's reincarnation from a closed, agrarian nation into a modern, high-tech superpower bent on literally cleaning up its act.

• Presents an on-the-ground survey and analysis of China's renewable and clean energy sector that identifies the kinds of projects and technologies Chinese enterprises and local governments are hungry for
• Includes a discussion on how successful Chinese companies are developing their brands to go head-to-head with the world’s best-known companies
• Discusses how central government conflicts of interest are actually foiling corporate and official drives to innovation across a range of sectors

Taking a look inside China's march toward becoming a sustainable superpower through innovation, China Fast Forward presents a balance sheet of the country's technological and social progress on its path to becoming a world leader.

2. Declaration of Energy Independence
o A Light Bulb for Every Chinese
o Coal in China&rsquo,s Stocking
o Peaking at Oil
o String of Firecrackers

3. Consider the Alternatives
o Damming Neighbors
o I Got Sunshine
o Wind at My Back
o Dumb Distribution
o Welcome to Electric Avenue
o Nuclear Deterrents

4. Errors of Emission: China&rsquo,s Pale Green Initiatives
o &rdquo,How am I Doing?&rdquo,
o Polluting Industries Move Inland
o Separation Anxieties
o When Green Makes Black
o False Teeth

5. Dragon on a Diet: Learning Conservation and Sustainability
o Counter¬,cultural Revolution
o Conservation: Learning a New Word
o Successful Sustainability

6. Heavy Metal
o Let&rsquo,s Get this Party Started
o Fast Car
o A Ticket to Ride
o Leaving on a Jet Plane
o Ships Ahoy!

7. The Silicon Paddies of China
o Venice Isn&rsquo,t Sinking
o If You Build It, They Will Outsource

o Crouching Dragon, Leaping Elephant
8. The Fractured Web
o Life Behind the Great Firewall of China
o The Censorship of Business
o The Business of Censorship
o It&rsquo,s a Small(er) World After All
o Show Me the Tokens

9. Brand China
o The Apparatchik&rsquo,s Learning Curve
o SOE What!
o Copy Cats
o Lieutenants of Industry
o Big Fish in a Big Pond

10. Assembly Required
o The Magna Carta Moment
o Putting the &ldquo,Civil&rdquo, in Civilization
o Society&rsquo,s Call
o A Charitable Streak
o I Think I&rsquo,m Turning Japanese

Bill Dodson has been an industry analyst, advisor, and business manager in China since 2003. He has been quoted on China-related topics in Newsweek, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, the BBC, The Economist, Shanghai Business Review, China Economic Quarterly, and other international media outlets. A graduate of Cornell University, he is a columnist for the China Economic Review on the China energy sector. He makes his home in the Greater Shanghai area with his wife and son. Follow daily discussions on China innovation at thisischinablog.com