https://www.scmp.com/rss/308450/feed Cong Cao is a professor in innovation studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research focuses on science, technology, and innovation in China. With support from the US National Science Foundation, European Union’s Framework Program (FP) 7, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Dr Cao has published extensively on human resources in science and technology; research, innovation and entrepreneurship in nanotechnology and biotechnology; and, the reform of science... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com China has spent decades “walking on two legs” in its pursuit of scientific and technological innovation. Now, its decoupling from the US is injuring one leg, impeding its journey to become a world leader in science and technology. The steps it has taken – on the input side, enlarging expenditure on research and development (R&D) and nurturing talent, while increasing the number of publications by Chinese scientists in international journals, boosting patenting activities and exporting hi-tech... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3192300/why-decoupling-us-will-impede-chinas-technological-progress?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3192300/why-decoupling-us-will-impede-chinas-technological-progress?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Sep 2022 01:15:20 +0000 Historically, science and education have played a large part in bridging the divide between China and the United States. In the 106 years between 1872 – when the Qing government sent the first batch of students to the US – and 1978, only some 140,000 Chinese students had studied abroad. Since then, the number of Chinese students studying all over the world has reached 6.56 million. Yung Wing, the first Chinese who graduated from an American university – Yale – and who later proposed sending... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3151235/under-biden-us-china-tech-and-educational-links-remain-regrettably?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3151235/under-biden-us-china-tech-and-educational-links-remain-regrettably?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 Oct 2021 19:30:15 +0000 For one week every October, a serious bout of anxiety grips China. But it is not purely down to nervousness over which prominent dissident is in the running for the Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to the Dalai Lama in 1989 and Liu Xiaobo in 2010. Rather, it reflects the Chinese government's unsated craving for a home-grown scientist to win a Nobel science prize; cast-iron proof of technological power to match its economic might and a reassertion of its capacity for innovation, first demonstrated by... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1334631/china-nobel-prize-science-still-big-leap-away?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1334631/china-nobel-prize-science-still-big-leap-away?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:00:30 +0000 The threat of a "brain drain" has long lingered over China's ambitions to transform its economy from one reliant on low-cost manufacturing to one powered by home-grown innovation. Alert to the danger, Beijing has acted swiftly to counter the departure of its scientific and entrepreneurial talent overseas. Back in 2008, the Chinese Communist Party turned headhunter when it launched its "Thousand Talents" scheme to tempt the brightest and best Chinese back to their homeland after periods studying... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1284788/china-cant-stem-brain-drain-without-revamping-its-research?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1284788/china-cant-stem-brain-drain-without-revamping-its-research?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000