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What the West often sees as a sudden rise of China started 30 years ago with agricultural reform on a very small scale: Deng Xiaoping allowed 18 farmers to start the first “free market” activities. Today, change in China is increasingly bottom-up. Each province, each city is transforming at its own speed which makes it hard to judge the areas of cooperation and to calculate where and when to step into a market. What might be too late in one region could be too early in another.
How fast is China really changing – albeit at different speeds in different places -- and where is it headed? What is the impact of all the changes on China itself, and how will China impact on the rest of the world? Even the Chinese are searching for a frame with which to measure the news of the day, opposing viewpoints and emerging developments.
To find the answer to those questions John Naisbitt was invited to lead a team whose purpose is an analysis of the transforming of China. In autumn of 2007 The NAISBITT CHINA INSTITUTE, headquartered in Tianjin, was founded. The European office was established in January 2008 in Vienna.
The NAISBITT CHINA INSTITUTE supported by Chinese entrepreneurs and academics with 28 staff members is working on monitoring the most important cities in all of China’s 22 provinces. The goal is to identify and describe China’s key economic, cultural and political shifts for the next decades. |
