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This course analyzes the development of science and technology policy in China since the onset of the reform and open policy launched under Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s.�� It places special emphasis on the post-2000 period when China announced its goal of re-orienting the PRC economy away from emphasis on assembly-type manufacturing (which is labor-intensive and resource consuming–sometimes called “the factory to the world model”) and towards becoming an innovation driven economy.�� The course charts the changing emphasis of Chinese policies and reforms, including the new emphasis on “indigenous innovation” since 2005 and the cultivation and utilization of high-level talent since 2003—with an eye towards understanding China’s increasingly important role in shaping the structure and operation of the global innovation system in the 21st century.