Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies: Volume 10 Issue 3

Guest editorial

K.C. Fung, Xiaolan Fu

Silicon Valley, France and China: a comparative study of innovation systems and policies

K.C. Fung, Nathalie Aminian

In this paper, the authors aim to examine some characteristics of the innovation system and policy in France and China. For comparison, they also highlight some high technology…

FinTechs in China – with a special focus on peer to peer lending

Caroline Stern, Mikko Makinen, Zongxin Qian

China is a country with the most number of operating peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms (approximately 2,000) worldwide. This study aims to provide an overview on FinTechs in…

Big data-driven business model innovation by traditional industries in the Chinese economy

Sarah Cheah, Shenghui Wang

This study aims to construct mechanisms of big data-driven business model innovation from the market, strategic and economic perspectives and core logic of business model…

Innovation and imitation: Competition between the US and China on third-party payment technology

Ya-Wen Cheng, Su-Ying Hsu, Chu-Ping Lo

Third-party payments were first introduced by the US firm PayPal. Soon after, China developed a localized version of PayPal – Alipay, which became the main payment method for…

Diverging incentives for reforming China’s restrictions on digital innovations

Martina Francesca Ferracane, Hosuk Lee-Makiyama

This paper aims to investigate China’s policy on digital trade with the objective to highlight the rationales behind such policy.