The State Governance in the Coming Digital Age

The digital transformation, as the main trend in this coming Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0.), is not only leading a new round of economic and industrial transformation, but also reshaping society and fundamentally transforming state governance. How to manage the state governance in this digital age is becoming the vital question for many countries in the post COVID-19 era. How to adjust the state governance rules and methods in accordance with the emerging digital technologies to boost the socio-economic growth and development? This article provides the analysis of state governance in the digital age both at theoretical and practical levels, from Chinese perspective. It focuses on the governance changes that digital transformation brings with the traditional institutionalism, defines the state of the coming digital era, observes China’s state governance transformation in this process, and finally offers the implications of “Chinese model” in terms of state-led development in this digital age. The main research methodologies mainly contain analytical, comparative, and inductive

China · Corporate governance · Digital transformation · Economic system · Economics · Industrial Revolution · Management · Political science · Computer Science · Indonesian Legal and Regulatory Studies · Law · Legal and Policy Issues