Digital_Ranking_Report_2021

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES CHINA

u Overall top strengths w Overall top weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 23 18 19 13 12 53 46 37 40 35 3 21 9 2 1

Talent

Scientific concentration Training & education

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration Total expenditure on R&D (%) Total R&D personnel per capita

Rank

Rank

Rank

u Educational assessment PISA - Math 1

Employee training

13 52 16

14 36

w International experience

44 w

Total public expenditure on education

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

31 11 16 48

-

41 u

Management of cities

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication Scientific and technical employment

1 1 8 1

- u

Digital/Technological skills

Graduates in Sciences Women with degrees

w Net flow of international students

High-tech patent grants

-

u

Robots in Education and R&D

TECHNOLOGY

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 32 26 20 18 15 22 30 32 31 27 47 40 32 32 28

Technological framework Regulatory framework Capital

Regulatory framework

Capital

Technological framework Communications technology Mobile Broadband subscribers

Rank

Rank

Rank

Starting a business Enforcing contracts Immigration laws

16

IT & media stock market capitalization Funding for technological development

24 16 33

13 24 23 57 25

5

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

31 16 22 35

26 w

Country credit rating

Internet users

Development & application of tech.

Scientific research legislation Intellectual property rights

Venture capital

25 37

Internet bandwidth speed High-tech exports (%)

Investment in Telecommunications

8

FUTURE READINESS

Subfactors

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 32 23 24 17 19 24 19 1 4 3 44 41 41 35 32

Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Business agility

IT integration E-Government

Rank

Rank

Rank

E-Participation Internet retailing Tablet possession

9

Opportunities and threats World robots distribution

31

40

22 u

1

Public-private partnerships

4

36 17 11

Agility of companies

19

Cyber security Software piracy

12 56

11 w

Smartphone possession

Use of big data and analytics Knowledge transfer Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Attitudes toward globalization

23 36

67

IMD WORLD DI G I TAL COMPET I T I VENESS RANK ING 2021