Can China build its own Silicon Valley?

 
Well ok, I am spreading quite a bit of U.S. news today and interesting reading it is for the curious of mind. Michael Rogers report on changes taking place in China.

Courtesy of MSNBC.

"It’s hard to spend much time among the enthusiastic entrepreneurs at Zhongguancun and Tsinghua without worrying about how the U.S. will measure up in years to come. While the number of U.S. science and engineering graduates declines, year after year, China’s numbers are surging. China already graduates more English-speaking electrical engineers than does the U.S. Last month the U.S. came in 17th in an annual international collegiate programming contest; a team from a Shanghai university came in first. And U.S. middle school math and science scores continue to lag behind those of other developed nations — even as school boards debate how to teach evolution."

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