Spending time with my friends in their home village of Mabao, Shanxi Province, has meant that I’ve been able to directly experience the significant benefits of two important aspects of Chinese thought – ecological civilization and whole-process people’s democracy.
It is entirely possible to encourage and respect decentralised knowledge and problem solving while retaining an overriding purpose and command structure.
A complex system can only be understood by understanding the small particular parts of day to day interaction. In order to do that, we have to engage people.
Just what it is that makes Xiaomi’s approach so effective?
The self-governance achieved in the urban villages of Shenzhen, China stands in stark contrast to a local government planning process in the Toowoomba Region, Australia.
A paper published in a respected journal illustrates the hyping of language used in science and the low quality of science reporting in the mainstream media.