Overview
Provides life and history of a Chinese intellectual in the period of the regime of Republic of China and People’s Republic of China in the mandatory planning period and the period of reform and opening
Provides guidance the necessary training to be a social system engineer
Also provides some development experience of PRC
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Huijiong Wang had around 33 years of working experience on design, planning and operation of electrical power system (generation, transmission, distribution and utilization) in China. His last position in engineering field was deputy Chief Engineer of Bureau of Electricity. Yunnan Province. He had published a book titled Introduction to Systems Engineering (Chinese Version: two volumes) around 1980s.
He became a senior research fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Science through open explanation in 1980. He had been short term consultant of UNIDO in 1981. Later, he was transferred to the newly established Techno-Economic Research Center (Later on, emerged into Development Research Center) of the State Council and became one of the leading group. He had been one of the leaders of several large domestic and international projects, such as Comprehensive Planning of ShanXi Heavy Chemical and Energy basis 1980-2000, China by the Year 2000 (National First Class S&T Progress Award 1988.7), Industrial Restructuring and Industrial Policies (A joint research project with the World Book), Integrated Study of China’s Development and Reform (A grant from UNDP around 3 million U.S.D. from 1988-1993) . He became Vice President of Academic Committee of DRC since 1990s. He had also been local consultants of the World Bank, ADB, ESCAP, OECD etc.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Explorations in Social Systems Engineering
Book Subtitle: The Life of an Intellectual in China (1925 to the Present)
Authors: Huijiong Wang
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3390-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3389-1Published: 10 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3392-1Published: 10 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3390-7Published: 09 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 373
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 58 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, Development and Social Change, Sociology, general