Why can't the Chinese come up with an original idea?
Shigyrl but outspoken on my future
2012/03/15 02:02:48
Came across this article about chinese students knocking off Victoria Secret lingerie show. The article talks about how this is not uncommon. I have to wonder does their restrictive culture limit free thinking? Does it make them so incapable of thinking outside the box. They must steal the ideas of others who are not so limited. Here is an article about the student version of Victoria Secret show. http://m.minyanville.com/?guid=5072&catid;=5
Makes you wonder why our society is pushing towards a one size fits all model. Intentionally stifling creativity.
Makes you wonder why our society is pushing towards a one size fits all model. Intentionally stifling creativity.
Perhaps you have never heard of the Great Wall of China, the ornate chinese art and statues and highly decorated silk fabric that is exported all over the planet.
The sciences of astronomy, physics, chemistry, meteorology, seismology, technology, engineering, and mathematics can trace their early origins to China.
You seem to dismiss all the hugely significant discoveries made by the Chinese, and think that only modern discoveries are important. Without the base to rely on, those modern inventions and discoveries would never be here at all. China also produced many great philosophers through out the ages. They were free thinkers and advanced human thought.
You attitude speaks volumes of bias. It would appear as though your mind has been stifled and has no way of valuing the contributions of other nations at all.
computerized laser photocomposition
complete synthesis of bovine insulin
Hybrid rice
the walkman
Karaoke e
umbrellas
all marshal arts
Chinos (or khakis)
noodles
Flip flops
Soy milk/tofu
tea
Perhaps you have never heard of the Great Wall of China, the ornate chinese art and statues and highly decorated silk fabric that is exported all over the planet.
The sciences of astronomy, physics, chemistry, meteorology, seismology, technology, engineering, and mathematics can trace their early origins to China.
You are completely closed minded and bigoted.
In January 2005, 584 CAS and CAE academicians voted these accomplishments as 2004's Top 10 Advances in Science and Technology:
1. The 10,000 Gigaflop supercomputer, one of the world's top-10 supercomputers. Developed by the CAS Institute of Computing Technology, the Dawning Corporation and the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, the Dawning 4000A went into operation on 15th November 2004 in Shanghai, making China the third country to develop commercial 10,000 Gigaflop supercomputer capability.
2. The first totally Chinese commercial nuclear power plant. The first such plant to be designed, built, managed and operated with exclusively Chinese resources-- Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant Phase 2, Unit 2 -- formally went into commercial use on 3rd May 2004.
3. Commercial operation of the West-East Gas Pipeline. On 30th December 2004, after more than four years in construction, the 4,000 km-long channel conveying natural gas from West to East China went into commercial use. The delivery of this facility involved over 7,000 scientific and technological challenges, and deployed many high-tech techniques and facilities.
4. Opening of the first trunk net of the next generation Internet. On 25th December 2004, the trunk net of the CERNET 2 of the China Next Generat...
In January 2005, 584 CAS and CAE academicians voted these accomplishments as 2004's Top 10 Advances in Science and Technology:
1. The 10,000 Gigaflop supercomputer, one of the world's top-10 supercomputers. Developed by the CAS Institute of Computing Technology, the Dawning Corporation and the Shanghai Supercomputer Center, the Dawning 4000A went into operation on 15th November 2004 in Shanghai, making China the third country to develop commercial 10,000 Gigaflop supercomputer capability.
2. The first totally Chinese commercial nuclear power plant. The first such plant to be designed, built, managed and operated with exclusively Chinese resources-- Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant Phase 2, Unit 2 -- formally went into commercial use on 3rd May 2004.
3. Commercial operation of the West-East Gas Pipeline. On 30th December 2004, after more than four years in construction, the 4,000 km-long channel conveying natural gas from West to East China went into commercial use. The delivery of this facility involved over 7,000 scientific and technological challenges, and deployed many high-tech techniques and facilities.
4. Opening of the first trunk net of the next generation Internet. On 25th December 2004, the trunk net of the CERNET 2 of the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) was officially opened, signaling the start of the all-around construction of the next-generation Internet.
5. Realization of the Double Star Satellite Program with the successful launch of the TC-2 satellite. On 25th July 2004, China launched the TC-2 satellite from the Long March II C Carrier Rocket from Taiyuan Launch Center, thus completing the Double Star Satellite Program proposed in 1997. The program, together with European Space Agency's Cluster II Program, is the first ever to probe geospace three-dimensionally from six points.
6. Manufacture of "super-switch" nano materials. The CAS Chemistry Research Institute achieved reversible transformation between super-hydrophobic and super-hydrophilic surface materials of nanometer structure by adjusting "light" and "temperature", and produced "switch" materials, a major research advance in the field of functional nanometer interface materials.
7. Manufacture of a high accuracy underwater positioning navigation system. Developed by the China Topography Research Institute and other organizations, at 45 meters under water, its level positioning precision reaches 5 cm, and its sound precision 30 cm. China is one of the few countries to have mastered this technology.
8. Solution of the membrane protein crystal structure problem. In the field of photosynthesis mechanism there was great progress in the work on "crystal structure of the main complexes for catching light in spinach (LHC-II)". This is the first important photosynthesis membrane protein crystal structure, determined by Chinese scientists through six years' work and solving an acknowledged problem in leading edge technology.
9. Important breakthrough in quantum information experimentation. The University of Science and Technology of China realized stealth transformation of cinque-particle entanglement and open-ended quantum states, showing that China has entered the international advanced level in multi-entanglement research.
10. Breakthrough in oil and gas resource strategic investigation. Preliminary figures from all-around strategic investigation into oil and gas resources within China's territorial waters estimate them at over 40 billion tons oil equivalence -- particularly in the huge areas of heavy Mesozoic layer found in deep water areas of the South China Sea, with a sedimentary layer over ten thousand meters deep. This points the way for further oil and gas prospecting in deep water areas.
On the IQ, American rate 19th on the world standard, China rates 12th
" After leading the world for decades in 25- to 34-year-olds with university degrees, the country sank to 12th place in 2010. The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010. Nearly half of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are now foreigners, most of whom will be heading home, not staying here as once would have happened. By 2025, in other words, the United States is likely to face a critical shortage of talented scientists.
It gets worse:
Under current projections, the United States will find itself in second place behind China (already the world’s second largest economy) in economic output around 2026, and behind India by 2050. Similarly, Chinese innovation is on a trajectory toward world leadership in applied science and military technology sometime between 2020 and 2030, just as America’s current supply of brilliant scientists and engineers retires, w...
On the IQ, American rate 19th on the world standard, China rates 12th
" After leading the world for decades in 25- to 34-year-olds with university degrees, the country sank to 12th place in 2010. The World Economic Forum ranked the United States at a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010. Nearly half of all graduate students in the sciences in the U.S. are now foreigners, most of whom will be heading home, not staying here as once would have happened. By 2025, in other words, the United States is likely to face a critical shortage of talented scientists.
It gets worse:
Under current projections, the United States will find itself in second place behind China (already the world’s second largest economy) in economic output around 2026, and behind India by 2050. Similarly, Chinese innovation is on a trajectory toward world leadership in applied science and military technology sometime between 2020 and 2030, just as America’s current supply of brilliant scientists and engineers retires, without adequate replacement by an ill-educated younger generation."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/j...
You are part of the dumbed down generations.
The findings were based on fossils found at the world-famous Chengjiang Fauna in South China.
This is the sixth time Nature has published Shu's findings relating to Chengjiang Fauna, where traces of the "Cambrian Explosion of life" have been found.
In the May issue of Science, Chinese scientists released their discovery of a new mammal living 195 million years ago, pushing back the universally believed time of mammals' emergence by 45 million years.
Shu's "finds have rewritten the early history of mammals," the report said.
Also in the same issue, Chinese scientist Li Jianghai published his findings in North China with his United States collaborators of the oldest rock on Earth, a piece of serpentine that came into being 2.5 billion years ago.
http://www.china.org.cn/engli...
"Science is rising in the east. China's strategies for economic development, which are centred on creating a world-beating science base, don't sound like much. They go by odd names: the 863 Programme and Project 211, for instance, and the Torch and Spark programmes. But they are proving to be more powerful than even the Chinese government could have hoped.
Last year, following a decade of phenomenal growth, China became the second-biggest producer of scientific knowledge in the world. In 1998, Chinese scientists published about 20,000 articles. In 2009, they produced more than 120,000. Only the US turns out more.
According to figures released this year by the US National Science Foundation, there are now as many researchers working in China as there are working in the US or the EU. The state is encouraging Chinese scientists trained in the west to return home, offering them enormous salaries and access to world-class laboratories. In 2008, for example, the molecular biologist Yigong Shi, one of Princeton University's rising stars, walked away from a $10m research grant to set up a lab at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In January, the Chinese equivalent of the U...
"Science is rising in the east. China's strategies for economic development, which are centred on creating a world-beating science base, don't sound like much. They go by odd names: the 863 Programme and Project 211, for instance, and the Torch and Spark programmes. But they are proving to be more powerful than even the Chinese government could have hoped.
Last year, following a decade of phenomenal growth, China became the second-biggest producer of scientific knowledge in the world. In 1998, Chinese scientists published about 20,000 articles. In 2009, they produced more than 120,000. Only the US turns out more.
According to figures released this year by the US National Science Foundation, there are now as many researchers working in China as there are working in the US or the EU. The state is encouraging Chinese scientists trained in the west to return home, offering them enormous salaries and access to world-class laboratories. In 2008, for example, the molecular biologist Yigong Shi, one of Princeton University's rising stars, walked away from a $10m research grant to set up a lab at Tsinghua University in Beijing. In January, the Chinese equivalent of the US National Institutes of Health was unveiled with £150m in its pockets, which will be distributed to new medical research projects.
“China is focusing on developing an elite group of institutions and the performance of these is going to go on improving," says Jonathan Adams, director of research evaluation at Thomson Reuters in London and lead author of a 2009 report into China's scientific research strategies and achievements.
If present trends continue, China will be the world leader in science by the end of this decade. "There's going to be a new geography," Adams says. "The map that people have in their minds of where science is taking place will have to be adjusted." Scientists working in the west need to react, according to Xiaoqin Wang, director of a biomedical engineering centre that Johns Hopkins University runs jointly with Tsinghua University. "Collaboration will become more and more important," he says.
http://www.newstatesman.com/a...