Development of China's Information Resource Industry

As an emerging strategic industry in China the information resource industry (IRI) has had and will continue to have a growing impact on economic and social development. Focusing on the special characteristics of IRI policies in China this book provides an in-depth discussion of the major directions methods and paths of development for IRI policies via a comprehensive analysis of the structural organizational promotional policies and policy instruments of China’s IRI.   Concentrating on policy instruments this book for the first time provides a systematic well-rounded review of China’s IRI policies that have been released to date and proposes a “China Information Resource Industry Policy Library” comprising six types of IRI policy documents: organizational information regulatory incentives market and social. The whole contributes to a comprehensive understanding of the  application of various IRI policies in China and also supports the building of industrial policies and the decision-making behind them.