Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.83

复旦—LSE讲座系列第83期

Title/题目: 

High technology in China: dependency, interdependency and self-reliance

中国高科技：依赖、相互依存与自立

Speaker/主讲人: 

Seamus Grimes, Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography, University of Galway

Seamus Grimes 爱尔兰高威大学经济地理学荣休教授

Host/主持人: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, Fudan IGPP

敬乂嘉教授 复旦全球公共政策研究院

Discussants/评论人: 

Assoc. Prof. Yin Li, SIRPA, Fudan University

李寅副教授 复旦大学国务学院

Time/时间: 

12:00-13:20, Oct. 15, Wednesday, 2025

2025年10月15日 周三 12:00-13:20

Venue/地点: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor, West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Seamus Grimes is Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography at the University of Galway in Ireland. He has been a visiting research professor at East China Normal University for 15 years, making regular visits during that time to interview foreign technology companies in China.

In 2018 with Yutao Sun he published China and Global Value Chains: Globalization and the Information and Communications Technology Sector (Routledge). He has also published papers looking at China’s integration into technology global value chains, looking particularly at the semiconductor sector, the chemical sector and Big Pharma.

讲座内容/ Abstract:

This presentation will examine the recent evolution of the high technology sector in China from a period of high levels of dependency on foreign technology, to increasing interdependency with its integration into global technology value chains and more recently in its policy push for greater technology self-reliance. It will pay particular attention to alliances between key global companies in technology value chains and examine recent developments in the semiconductor sector and AI ecosystems as value chains become increasingly bifurcated resulting from US-China rivalry and the growing influence of national security geopolitics. As the world shifts from highly optimised technology value chains to the possibility of two distinct AI ecosystems, attention will also be given to China’s self-reliance response to US sanctions.