A note on the sources of technological innovation in the people's republic of China

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Abstract
In his catalysis of choice of technique in China, Shigeru Ishikawa argues that changes in choice of technique result both from changes in objectives and limiting factors and from expansion in the range of technical alternatives available, and suggests that Chinese planners in the post‐Cultural Revolution period enjoy a substantially wider range of alternatives than was available at the time of the Great Leap Forward. In this paper we accept Dr. Ishikawa's findings that there was a marked advance in the level of technologies and techniques attained in the modern manufacturing sector and considerable progress in the techniques of small‐scale industries in China in the 1960s, and examine some of the factors that contributed to this increase in the range of technologies during this period.

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