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Q: When will China be digital?
Last night on CCTV News there was something from the just finished CCPCC. One of the top dogs was talking about making the country more efficient. As always zero details as to how to make the country more efficient.
A thing that amaze me is all the paperwork there is in this country. Do you think it will ever be digital, so e.g. I can send a digitally signed document, or even just that a document can be scanned and emailed and still be considered legally binding, or will they cling on to the piles of paper needing stamping forever. ?
I doubt very much that all the paper generated from everyday actions such as banking, mobile subscriptions, car insurance after fender benders, is actually ever used for anything.
11 years 5 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
the problem with digital age is it cuts employees and china has a billion plus people to keep working, automation is the enemy of china, not a friend, i went to get car insurance and 8 different people inspected the car looking for a vin number in 8 different places and then one person checked that all 8 inspectors had signed the sheet and then i got to pay the bill for auto insurance to another person of course, ten people , two hours later , im insured, but what would these people do without a paycheck in an unfriendly welfare country.
three percent of workers in america are farmers ,if automation did this to china , the peasants would burning down the cities wanting a job.
the last premier of china ask george bush what keeps him awake at night and he said another 911 attack, the premier said what keeps him awake at night is creating 25 million new jobs every year.
Making all those processes digital will be much more expensive than the current system.
Not to mention the problems an chaos that it can cause.
My wife went last week to a government tax office to buy a license for the digital platform that allows a company to pay taxes online. The guy there told her that he wouldn't recommend using that platform, because a) it doesn't process the payments correctly most of the times b) if an error happens and the payment is not received, the tax office has no responsibility (even if it is their own software) and the company will be held responsible and will have to pay a fine as if they had tried to avoid paying taxes
Things like that discourage the people from trying digital solutions instead of using the traditional ways. I think it will take quite a while for China to become digital
China's already digital, just not for the layman. Gotta keep those "jobs" coming in.
I am amazed/amused by the paperwork to do a simple banking transaction ....I used to work for the govt. in Canada and we dreamed of going paperless....never happened and never will, but certainly not as bad as here..............I read somewhere ..... 20 million 20 year old trees are cut down in China every year, for disposable chopsticks, ...that's a big number and so unnecessary.
