[Marxism] China's next ;eap forward

[J.M.P.Cloke@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I can think of one project being developed right now 
outside Beijing which has the potential at least to help 
China leap forward into being just such an economic 
superpower:

"The Beijing Cyber Recreation District (CRD) will become 
the largest virtual world ever, with a first phase 
capacity of 7 million concurrent users/avatars through 
which businesses anywhere in the world can come and 
buy/sell products and services online.

CRD is now being developed in a 100 square-kilometer 
complex in West Beijing; between now and the end of 2010, 
the CRD intends to bring 150 million middle-class Chinese 
people and companies to this virtual world.

The CVE plans nine similar virtual universes for billions 
of avatars; the project is intended to reclaim the value 
added for China that is lost in operating through western 
companies, to do what China has done in manufacturing in 
services."

(From a presentation I gave to the MasterCard Latin 
American Leadership Forum in Rio de Janeiro last year) 


Jon Cloke


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