Subject of research: information and communication technologies sector of the People’s Republic of China.
Purpose of research: develop scientifically grounded proposals and recommendations directed to ensure the steady growth of the ICT sector in the Republic of Uzbekistan on the basis of research and generalization of the China’s experience in the given sector.
Methods of research: analytical, historical, systematic, correlation-regression methods, scientific abstraction, comparative and SWOT analysis.
The results obtained and their novelty: author’s classification of ICT sector components was proposed; factors influencing ICT sector development were identified and systematized; complex approach was applied to the analysis of tendencies in ICT sector development of the world economy; author’s approach was introduced to the analysis of main stages of the PRC’s innovation policy in the context of ICT development; production and export potentials of China’s ICT sector were evaluated; dependence of China’s GDP growth on the expenditures on ICT was justified; possibilities of implementation of positive experience of China’s ICT sector development were detected in order to increase the potential of the same sector in Uzbekistan; proposals aimed at strengthening of cooperation in ICT sphere between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the People’s Republic of China were composed.
Practical value: research findings can be used empirically in different ministries and agencies of Uzbekistan such as the Coordination Council for Development of Computerization and ICT, the Communication and Information Agency, the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations, Investments and Trade, the Association of Information Technology Companies and Organizations and other governmental and nongovernmental bodies involved in policy elaboration and implementation in the spheres of ICT development.
Degree of embed and economic efficiency: major research findings are accepted for practical use in the activities of the General Representation of Commerce of the Republic of Uzbekistan in China, the representative offices of the ICT-specialized Chinese transnational corporations in Uzbekistan: Huawei, ZTE, and being used in the teaching process at Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies.
Field of application: research results can be used by government bodies in strategy determination and elaboration of ICT sphere development, in making organization-based managerial decisions, in scientific research activity and teaching process.
