The Communist Party’s Steering of China’s Science, Technology, and Innovation System: Aspirations

IGCC • MERICS • April 2024 The Communist Party’s Steering of China’s Science, Technology, and Innovation System: Aspirations and Reality 3 Introduction After decades of Reform and Opening Up, the As a result, STI-related sectors are increasingly science, technology, and innovation (STI) system becoming part of the debates on “decoupling” and in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is at a “de-risk. [...] IGCC • MERICS • April 2024 The Communist Party’s Steering of China’s Science, Technology, and Innovation System: Aspirations and Reality 5 Centralization aims to facilitate the pooling of The Contradictions of the CCP skilled leaders and resources in order to enable the Approach to STI speedy and smooth advancing of core technologies and research fields. [...] While isolating domestic technological systems and thereby At the micro level, party cells and secretaries—like ending the phase of all-out globalization and in other public and commercial organizations in the strategic import of foreign knowledge is China—are given elevated status and decision conceivable—and the developments in China’s making authority in Chinese universities and communication t. [...] Ahlers is the founder and head of the Lise Meitner Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), which explores the many facets of China’s rapid and extensive ascent in the global system of science. [...] Ahlers is a member of the editorial board of The Environments of East Asia series (Cornell University Press), a member of the international advisory board of the Routledge Studies on Local China series, an editor of Soziale Systeme/Social Systems, and a member of the executive committee of the European Journal of East Asian Studies.