Yu Hong is Professor at the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. She has a PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She has published widely on the political economy of Chinese communications, including the book Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy (2017). Eric Harwit is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, and an adjunct senior fellow at the East-West Center. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published widely on China’s telecommunications development, including the book China’s Telecommunications Revolution (2008).