Beijing has vowed to rely on a so-called talent dividend to drive innovation and high-quality development, but only 13 per cent of China’s population are viewed as scientifically literate.
The founding of China’s new top science and technology planner – a Communist Party body at the core of Beijing’s technology competition with Washington – went quietly. It was not publicly known that the Central Science and Technology Commission, a new party organ stemming from a sweeping insti