<正>Although China now boasts of the world’s second largest population of Internet users and US-based transnational corporations from Cisco to Intel have played an instrumental role in China’s massive information infrastructure build-up and its IT-led development strategy,a dominant segment of the Chinese political and technological leadership have always been wary of the negative political,economic and cultural implications of continuing American domination in digital technological developments.In particular,continuing US national control of the Internet’s domain name system(DNS) and the physical location of all the existing 13 domain name root servers outside China underscore the country’s precarious connectivity to the Internet. At the same time,proprietary control of core technologies by foreign,mostly US,based transnational corporations condemns China’s national economy to the low end of the global value production chain.