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China Airborne

By James Fallows

China Airborne book

China Airborne

By James Fallows

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From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China's modernization-its plan to rival America as the world's leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future. In 2011, China announced its twelfth Five-Year Plan, which included the commitment to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jump-start its aerospace industry. In China Airborne, James Fallows documents, for the first time, the extraordinary scale of China's project, making clear how it stands to catalyze the nation's hyper-growth and hyper-urbanization, revolutionizing China in ways analogous to the building of America's transcontinental railroad in the nineteenth century. Completing this remarkable picture, Fallows chronicles life in the city of Xi'an, home to 250,000 aerospace engineers and assembly-line workers, and introduces us to some of the hucksters, visionaries, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who seek to benefit from China's pursuit of aeronautical supremacy. He concludes by explaining what this latest demonstration of Chinese ambition means for the United States and for the rest of the world-and the right ways for us to respond.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2013-02-26
Publication Date:
2013-02-26
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1400031273
ISBN13:
9781400031276
Weight:
326 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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