China's young, hyper-adaptive population is its secret weapon for fast innovation.

Ғылым және технология

In the 30 years from 1990 through 2019, the per-capita GDP growth in the United States was 2.7 times. In China, it was 32 times.
The Harvard Business Review concludes that the shocking transformations across all aspects of Chinese life have prepared its population to adapt to sudden change better than in any other country. Consider: for the 700 million Chinese citizens under the age of 40, all they have experienced is an economy that has boomed at 12 times the global average. In their lifetimes, China went from 75% rural, and where most of the rural population lacked even electricity and refrigeration, to two-thirds urban and modern. Automobiles went from fewer than 5 million to nearly 300 million. China poured more concrete in just three years, than the United States did in the entire 20th century.
For these 700 million Chinese, how did all this affect their view of progress? Of what is possible? Of what industry and universities and government and business can do?
And with respect to innovation, is it possible that we need new measurements of innovation? In the US and Europe, we tend to view a technological innovation as a great idea that can propel a company or an industry in a new direction over time; in China, the innovations are immediate, population-wide, and become permanent features of life.
Resources and links:
Harvard Business Review (2021), China's new innovation advantage
hbr.org/2021/05/chinas-new-in...
Harvard Business Review (2014), Why China can't innovate
hbr.org/2014/03/why-china-can...
Cityscapes of Shanghai, Shenzhen from 1990/2020, from Google Images

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  • @jackchiu7560
    @jackchiu756016 күн бұрын

    Below are what the Harvard Business Review said over the years: Harvard Business Review, 2014: Why China can't innovate; Harvard Business Review, 2021: China's new innovation advantage; Harvard Business Review, 2024: U.S. needs to work with Europe to slow China's innovation rate. In fact, Western media always look at the wind direction and say things from a Western point of view that only benefits the West, never China. Likewise, here are what the New York Times and the New York Post said over the years: NY Times, 2021: China is burning more coal, a growing climate challenge; NY Times, 2024: Yellen warns China against flood of cheap green energy exports. NY Post, July 16, 2023: China's export slump in the first half of 2023 dragged the world economy down; NY Post, March 13, 2024: China's export hike threatened the world economy. Hypocrises and double standards are laid bare for everyone to see -- shameless, I say.

  • @hanmi1216

    @hanmi1216

    15 күн бұрын

    I think even a snake not changing their words as fast as the western MSM. 😂

  • @herryso6238

    @herryso6238

    12 күн бұрын

    @@hanmi1216they do change skin. 😂

  • @verypleasantguy
    @verypleasantguy16 күн бұрын

    *_"How much change the Chinese people have experienced"_* Dude, we have 6000 years of experience !

  • @willengel-vs8ht

    @willengel-vs8ht

    16 күн бұрын

    China is the longest surviving civilization. it reinvented itself 3-4 times in its long continuous history. name me another country.

  • @hdvoice

    @hdvoice

    16 күн бұрын

    The last 40 years are very much unique in human history, let alone Chinese history.

  • @georgesibley7152

    @georgesibley7152

    15 күн бұрын

    only those in the Huang Ho river valley.

  • @iliescuradu
    @iliescuradu16 күн бұрын

    Astonishing. I'm literally amazed..Finally the western world is starting to recognise what is too obvious.

  • @prwchan
    @prwchan16 күн бұрын

    "Quantity has a quality all of it's own" - quantity AND quality is invincible. I'm betting on China to pull humanity into the future. The West (especially US elite) is trying to hold humanity back. My money is in China ❤

  • @JimmyDoyel-by2cp

    @JimmyDoyel-by2cp

    16 күн бұрын

    The one who pull the politicians strings.

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@JimmyDoyel-by2cpĂÎPĂC

  • @rastoferi6012
    @rastoferi601216 күн бұрын

    1. Harvards study can be summed up by "CPC was right all along". 2. This channel deserves much more views

  • @7hx89

    @7hx89

    16 күн бұрын

    1. So funny 😂 made my day. Yes but they only dare say the opposite.

  • @gelinrefira

    @gelinrefira

    16 күн бұрын

    But they don't know how to implement those right policies. It's like what jake sullivan said, that he admits neoliberal capitalism is what is causing the US's decline but his prescription is more neoliberalism and more empire building instead of looking at why China is succeeding and suggesting the right policies.

  • @user-jq1bw7ot9n

    @user-jq1bw7ot9n

    15 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @fanwan1206

    @fanwan1206

    7 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂😂 and yes, but KZread algorithm probably doesn't want to show it

  • @10lauset
    @10lauset16 күн бұрын

    I was in China around 1985 visiting Shanghai, Guangzhou and my home village in Guangdong. All the old pictures are familiar to me. I want to return and be blown away with the changes into the future of the world. Cheers from Edmonton Alberta.

  • @alanwu5788

    @alanwu5788

    16 күн бұрын

    where is it?

  • @jarleykoo7218

    @jarleykoo7218

    16 күн бұрын

    I got my surgery training in Edmonton and worked at the U of A from 1982-1991. Edmonton is a great place, one of my home cities.

  • @10lauset

    @10lauset

    16 күн бұрын

    @@jarleykoo7218 ❤

  • @Gemini73883
    @Gemini7388316 күн бұрын

    Have you been to DuJiangYan? Here is a massive hydraulic engineering project using manual labour. This was completed 2400+ years ago, without heavy machinery. If that doesn't show innovation from at least 2400 years ago, I don't know what will. Oh, it is still working now!

  • @thomaskuehne7383

    @thomaskuehne7383

    16 күн бұрын

    ... its true, I have seen it 😋 ...

  • @user-qd8yg1fp7i

    @user-qd8yg1fp7i

    16 күн бұрын

    Nothing will penetrate Western conceit...

  • @DW-op7ly

    @DW-op7ly

    16 күн бұрын

    There is now 27 books published that says we copied from them 👇 Why was China erased from Western memory The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory? Article by 龙信明 Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West. Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery. Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West MySingaporeBlogSpot

  • @PhiloSurfer

    @PhiloSurfer

    16 күн бұрын

    Yes, I was there in Sichuan....

  • @georgesibley7152

    @georgesibley7152

    15 күн бұрын

    DuJiangYen is a marvelous piece of Hydrological engineering. It was modified over 4 dynasties. However we do not know if it was trial and error (like the medieval cathedrals) and had to be continually modified by successive generations or was the masterplan of a Chinese engineer,

  • @astt99
    @astt9916 күн бұрын

    When i was a kid (in the 80s), my grandma used to sent money back to her brothers in China, around USD150 a year. That considered a big money for the family. And today, her brothers family own 2 mega factories in southen China....all this happened within 1 generation. That's how fast they have changed.

  • @mrgreen1633
    @mrgreen163316 күн бұрын

    Coming to UK from China must feel like stepping back in time by 50 years

  • @user-vp6vf8wm2s

    @user-vp6vf8wm2s

    16 күн бұрын

    Are you kidding? Back in time by 50 years? By UK standard? And what is that? Dinasour time?

  • @fannyalbi9040

    @fannyalbi9040

    16 күн бұрын

    if u coming back from india, u will feel like stepping back in time by 100 years. that’s how advanced my country india

  • @georgesibley7152

    @georgesibley7152

    15 күн бұрын

    @@user-vp6vf8wm2s what that we are a nation rather than a series of fiefdoms governed by one's Hukou. Because we have a social welfare system that China does not have . Because our buildings and transport are adapted to use by the handicapped. Because we do not have to wait for an hour in a bank to get a simple job done while they fill in form after form. We do not have wepay and Alipay but we have a faster method, Our transport system is old and slower but that is because we invented them over a hundred years ago. Our buildings are old but that is because ours are built to last and we value them. Our rural villages and towns are more modern than China;s and more picturesque, and our universities still rank among the highest in the world Our culture is on a par with any. Our rivers are less polluted. Our wildlife is not confined to remote areas, Our rivers and lakes teem with wild fowl, Our gardens attract many species of birds and insect. the fact that we have gardens rather than a balcony high up in the air is better for me.

  • @zhaokwong5544

    @zhaokwong5544

    14 күн бұрын

    So true. There is no comparison to the advancement of China.

  • @user-vp6vf8wm2s

    @user-vp6vf8wm2s

    14 күн бұрын

    Still in a rabbit hole?

  • @vsalasarcr
    @vsalasarcr16 күн бұрын

    Greetings, impressive data, I think that in the West we still cannot understand the magnitude of the fantastic (I think unmatched) development of China.

  • @kibakobo
    @kibakobo16 күн бұрын

    Let’s say it this way. Would any sensible human being even listen to Joe, or Donald. For more than 5 seconds. It’s literally a clown show. Entire world is destroyed by them. We can’t do that no more ! Nations are defined by leadership.

  • @danielli9167

    @danielli9167

    16 күн бұрын

    but The fact that they got elected 100% reflects how good/bad the general population are.

  • @kibakobo

    @kibakobo

    16 күн бұрын

    @@danielli9167 Exactly. That’s the whole point. But there are multiple scenarios. American population is indifferent politically. Those at top are just keeping them alive ! Massive illegal migration for undocumented cheap labor. And we say Democrats fought for abolishing slavery lol! In civil war. While they are no different to South. Aren’t American born kids not capable of Coding or working for Intel. It was all deliberate ! Now these Mega rich aren’t American. Indian. Korean. Chinese who built their lives of 90, 2000, digital revolution.

  • @danielli9167

    @danielli9167

    16 күн бұрын

    @@kibakobo I have lived in this country for a long time. The stupidity of the general population have nothing to do with any kind of immigration. I have worked and dealt with people whose family have been in this country for generations. They are lazy and have no drive to get better and no desire to get an education. The whole education system was screwed up. High school graduates can not read, calculate, or do reasoning. You got a justice system that cost a lot money and does not work... You get a society with its social and moral values decay rapidly. People in such a society can not tell the difference between right and wrong... or they do not want to.

  • @tangbesitangbesi7009

    @tangbesitangbesi7009

    16 күн бұрын

    I couldn't agree more

  • @DIRKDIGG88

    @DIRKDIGG88

    14 күн бұрын

    A lot of Americans do.

  • @joeyp1927
    @joeyp192716 күн бұрын

    China's global innovation edge is that it invented many of the very things that made the modern world possible, that helped create a global culture: paper, printing, gunpowder, the compass, paper money, movable type, cannons, guns, blast furnace, cast iron, mechanical clock, seed drill, trip hammer, deep drilling, process for mass producing steel, the rudder, bulkheads, linear algebra, etc. The first four were so pivotal that the West itself called these inventions - paper, printing, gunpowder, and the compass - the 'Cardinal Inventions' which Enlightenment philosopher Francis Bacon noted had changed the world in profound ways but whose origins were obscure. The Industrial Revolution itself was fueled (pun intended) by Chinese inventions like deep drilling (the Chinese were the first to drill for fossil fuels, over 2000 years ago) and the blast furnace and steel mass production processes. Western writers like those who contribute to HBR ignore all this because they want to think that their ancestors were solely responsible for this modern world and that China is merely copying. And now that China is innovating, they want to simply attribute this to 'ability to adapt to rapid change' rather than admit the much simpler truth that the Chinese have been innovating for millennia and that we are all the beneficiaries.

  • @user-qd8yg1fp7i

    @user-qd8yg1fp7i

    16 күн бұрын

    Exactly. Spot on.

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    16 күн бұрын

    Some jąc ąrșê online says he doubts China invented anything in the past and claims China copied those too. Like Einstein says, human stupidity is unlimited

  • @adrian9098

    @adrian9098

    16 күн бұрын

    And how it comes that the west was industrialized at a time when China was still a land of illetarate farmers? Seems to me the part the of the world innovating was far away from there. But I guess this is the new narrative now: China all along was (as you said) solely responsible for this modern world. Or maybe not really

  • @joeyp1927

    @joeyp1927

    16 күн бұрын

    @@adrian9098 First off, it's kinda funny that someone who speaks of illiterate farmers cannot even spell 'illetarate' right - it's 'illiterate', FYI ;). So I'm not surprised that you see things in blunt, black and white terms. Never said that China was "solely" responsible for the modern world; whenever anyone, like me, points out that China contributed far more than it's given credit for, people like you take umbrage and panic, making things black and white. It could be that everyone innovated at one time or another - which is the case. Nor was China a land of illiterate farmers when the West tried to colonize it: its government was still run by its massive civil service examination system (which Ben Franklin praised), choosing a select few from tens of thousands of well-educated prospects - a system copied by the British in the 1850s (The Trevelyan-Northcote proposal). China was also, at the time, occupied by the Manchus, a Northern tribal people, so it was unable to industrialize on the scale of, say the Japanese, who then overran the country. At any rate, no one debates the fact that the Chinese inventions I mentioned underpin the modern world. To take just two, the deep drilling rigs built in the late 1800s were essentially identical to Chinese ones, and the steelmaking process the Bessemer promoted - that jumpstarted industrialization - can be traced to Chinese workers he employed.

  • @flyrodmike

    @flyrodmike

    16 күн бұрын

    @@joeyp1927 Boom! You roasted him with facts and knowledge. No contest!

  • @lutherquick165
    @lutherquick16516 күн бұрын

    Great videos Kevin - Jeffrey Sachs recently made a video in Ethiopia where he was describing Chinese growth - he was in China every year since 1981 on various business trips... And he describes this exact 30X growth rate and how China is now helping Africa and much of the Global South to do that same 30X growth rate over the next few decades. These are hard times if you are westerner - but these are great times ahead if you are from the Global South and almost any developing nation. Any westerner that has a decade remaining in their careers - if they have noble positive experience in innovation and management - go east, go south. You will be welcomed - but only if you are humble and go there to help. The American exceptionalism attitude will not be welcome. And Klaus Schwab - focused on killing consumption and production and all this green BS - they want to stop China, Africa and the Global South from growth - not happening. This is going to have a brain drain effect on the west.

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    16 күн бұрын

    Due to anti China policies and the harassment of Chinese students at the customs at the airports, Chinese students no longer study in the US and many Chinese scientists and engineers are leaving the US .

  • @multiplierfx6429

    @multiplierfx6429

    16 күн бұрын

    Your humility is much appreciated. But sadly, you are a minority in the West.

  • @jorad4887
    @jorad488716 күн бұрын

    the products and services offered to the chinese citizens are competitive and will not sink you in debt like the usa. china's food, cars and clothing are not expensive but competitively price as for usa everything is costly as in car purhcases, foods and housing. the real debt trap is usa not china and the usa calls china's loans a debt trap, the nerve and hypocrisy of this nation

  • @tangbesitangbesi7009

    @tangbesitangbesi7009

    16 күн бұрын

    How right you are

  • @cheongseeksam3502

    @cheongseeksam3502

    16 күн бұрын

    The elites know repetitive lies propagated thru the controlled media can make many believe as truths. Propagated lies can generate fear and hate to justify aggression and war too.

  • @georgesibley7152

    @georgesibley7152

    15 күн бұрын

    it depends on one's income as to what is expensive. certainly, housing is expensive in China for the average Chinese unless you have public housing.

  • @morrismak
    @morrismak16 күн бұрын

    I remember when I started working in Shenzhen in 2006, the roads were horrible. Our accounting department had to go to the government departments, banks, etc... and line up for like an hour. Now they get everything done on the computer and phone. Many of our staff have good cars like Carola or a BYD. These things were unthinkable 15 years ago

  • @kibakobo
    @kibakobo16 күн бұрын

    My money 💰 will be in China as well.

  • @felixsu375
    @felixsu37516 күн бұрын

    It's a shock to people living there too. But the younger ones got used to it and the mindset is that change can be good. They start to embrace change instead of resisting it.

  • @tonywatt3281

    @tonywatt3281

    16 күн бұрын

    Yes, its the ability to accept and adapt to change.

  • @remakeit2628
    @remakeit262816 күн бұрын

    Your content is very informative and I can't believe more people aren't subscribed. The reality is that people like you with lived experience are not believed... the CCP must be paying you! The other reality is that the "modern" western world does not like the fact that China has overtaken them in so many areas. Here in Australia our so called fastest trains are classified as SLOW trains in China. I look forward to your every upload.

  • @gelinrefira
    @gelinrefira16 күн бұрын

    It should be noted that your comment about the younger generation, the millennials and Gen Z of China not knowing what China was like back in the 80s and 90s works not just in how the transition of China shaped them, but also how they are less bounded by the traditions and rules laid down by the older generation especially in foreign policies. In the past, Deng Xiaoping said China needs to lie low, bide their time to become strong so they can achieve industrialization in relative peace. This is indisputably accomplished with magnificent results from the central planning of the CPC, the Marxist Leninist socialism with Chinese Characteristics. The younger generation has grown up in this hyper paced transformation, this is a generation that is not only hopeful, innovative, highly educated, they are also proud of their country's achievements and its growing power. They will demand respect and the appropriate attitude confers to a superpower. The US provoking China and that China has not responded decisively in something big to knock the US out is still because of Deng's era of restrain. I think this culture of restrain is slowly going away and why shouldn't it go away. But the political environment in China is very vibrant and the people are smart enough to understand Deng's restrain. But I can tell everyone one thing, if China is going to take a shot at the king, they won't miss and the US will reap what it sowed.

  • @tomsunuwar6940
    @tomsunuwar694016 күн бұрын

    Great China 🇨🇳 ever ❤great 👍 in the world 🌍

  • @tompell3032
    @tompell303216 күн бұрын

    I worked as a computer engineer for some of the biggest and most prestigous and leading Aviation and HiTech companies in the US for 40 years. This is my own experience, and I accept that many of you may have completely different experience. My colleagues were mostly chinese either from china or from other parts of SE Asia or first generation US born Chinese. They were very capable and innovative engineers, at the top of their trades. I was very impressed. I expect those engineers in china are no difference in quality from these engineers I worked with in 40 years. There are just more of them in China.

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    16 күн бұрын

    And I bet non of the managers are Chinese. This is the so called "glass ceiling". Keep management white.

  • @7hx89

    @7hx89

    16 күн бұрын

    Same for the semiconductor companies in the US, the last pearl of the crown.

  • @jerryluan9106

    @jerryluan9106

    16 күн бұрын

    except some real top student went to US for high education, most the Chinese students went abroad just because they cannot compete in China University entrance exam and had to pay lot of money to go abroad to get a "shining" diploma. Even with these level of students, they can still stay in US and get into big companies. Here in China nowadays, the "shining" diploma is no longer shining, unless it is from some really top universities. It's very hard for normal student study abroad and go back China to get a really good job.

  • @whirledpeas1663

    @whirledpeas1663

    15 күн бұрын

    You mean gold plated diplomas?

  • @jerryluan9106

    @jerryluan9106

    13 күн бұрын

    @@whirledpeas1663 yes, haha

  • @mijmijrm
    @mijmijrm16 күн бұрын

    not only .. "what would these transformations do to how the Chinese think?" .. but also .. These transformations are due to _how_ the Chinese think. An emergent evolving process on thought of capability.

  • @annkoh8653
    @annkoh865316 күн бұрын

    It's d culture, d resilience & d innate desire & drive of d Chinese people to work hard & sacrifice for d growth & progress of future generations. It's in their DNA.

  • @user-qd8yg1fp7i

    @user-qd8yg1fp7i

    16 күн бұрын

    We want to go to Mars and beyond!

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@user-qd8yg1fp7iChinese are pragmatic/practical... China will settle in moon base first.

  • @erictang27

    @erictang27

    11 күн бұрын

    Its the Confucius culture preached from 550 BC

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    11 күн бұрын

    Cultural DNA, not the bio dna😂

  • @TAL142
    @TAL14216 күн бұрын

    It turns out Harvard is a lot of BS. Looks at all their graduates. How much innovation have Harvard made. Huawei is really doing what the US preached but don't do. They let the smart people do whatever they wanted. Father of rice in China created high-yield hybrid rice that can feed tens of millions of people annually. And then you have mother of China semi-conductor, father of China navy, etc. They have started many many programs without US help on their own. And US hostility nowadays is actually helping China to retain many of its talents and attract talents from Russia, Middle East and Africa.

  • @themiddlekingdom9121

    @themiddlekingdom9121

    16 күн бұрын

    All the Chinese professors that taught in major Western Universities have been gone back home.

  • @sciagurrato1831

    @sciagurrato1831

    16 күн бұрын

    HBS professor Francesca Gino is a perfect example of Harvard fakery: serial plagiarist exposed, now the school wants to fire her. Before her, Claudine Gay, newly elected president, exposed as serial plagiarist. Resigns but continues to infect, er, I mean, teach students.

  • @bananapeeler8797

    @bananapeeler8797

    16 күн бұрын

    Harvard is not the problem. The problem is the predatory capitalists who only care about what's good for themselves.

  • @TAL142

    @TAL142

    16 күн бұрын

    @@themiddlekingdom9121 Probably not all but many did leave. Why stay in a country that is hostile to you. 40% of America’s high-quality scientific papers involve international collaborations, and China is the #1 partner in producing scientific research. Even before the China imitative in 2018, Chinese are often scrutinized. But it is downright hostile and dangerous nowadays. coincidentally China finally surpassed the U.S. in its output of top-cited scientific publications in 2020.

  • @DW-op7ly

    @DW-op7ly

    16 күн бұрын

    There is now 27 books published that says we copied from them 👇 Why was China erased from Western memory The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory? Article by 龙信明 Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West. Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery. Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West MySingaporeBlogSpot

  • @professorrobertphd
    @professorrobertphd16 күн бұрын

    What China has managed to achieve is just amazing. Another reason not to take those "publications" seriously.

  • @UKkenny
    @UKkenny16 күн бұрын

    i saw 1st hand how SZ went from 1988 - my first visit to now the most modern city where i feel SAFE ..

  • @England66hs
    @England66hs15 күн бұрын

    You create the most educational and informative content of china. As a history teacher I learnt so much from you. You deserve a bigger audience

  • @PVLTD
    @PVLTD16 күн бұрын

    China knows it’s important to learn how to crawl first before jumping straight to walking and running. So she can master every detail throughout the whole learning cycle for future improvements. A good example would be building the aircraft carriers from ski-jumps to catapult-assisted takeoff systems and from developing diesel engines powered aircraft carriers first before moving to nuclear-powered stage. China’s strategy is pretty straightforward, she just followed her own goals and timetables setup decades ago to move one step at a time. If you stop progressing, China will catch up eventually. If you don’t, you might still be ahead of China. By the way, sanctions on China would help China moves even faster on achieving self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

  • @sciagurrato1831
    @sciagurrato183116 күн бұрын

    Kevin, your insight and diligence are only exceeded by your evident humanity and love of truth. An American who reminds me of the open-minded and fair America I grew up in. Heartiest wishes for your cont8nued success.

  • @user-ok6re8gv1q
    @user-ok6re8gv1q16 күн бұрын

    ICB is awesome! Thank you for your channel putting facts and figures for the interested layman across so many interesting fields.

  • @ncchew3356
    @ncchew335616 күн бұрын

    Harvard reminds me of Senator Tom Cotton who is a Harvard graduate. He asked a Singaporean if he was a member of the Chinese communist party and more.

  • @joemartin6202

    @joemartin6202

    13 күн бұрын

    Typical Plantation Owner mentality ---- gone are the days of exploitation and suppression

  • @RB-eo4eq
    @RB-eo4eq16 күн бұрын

    Look at the US Fortune 500 companies. Very small percentage are Harvard or Ivy League graduates! Innovation doesn’t come from legacy schools with legacy parents .

  • @bhmcrumbs1348
    @bhmcrumbs134816 күн бұрын

    I love the soft background audio, what gives you wisdom.

  • @turtlesoup8134

    @turtlesoup8134

    16 күн бұрын

    its creepy. I stopped the video when he finish speaking.

  • @parttimethinker7611
    @parttimethinker761116 күн бұрын

    I like your good bye video Kevin. It’s a very cool idea. Love your messages.

  • @HappyOx99
    @HappyOx9916 күн бұрын

    A point well put. Thank you.

  • @syncmaster915n
    @syncmaster915n16 күн бұрын

    Many people associate innovation only as invention of something, like lightbulb. Innovation means doing something new that benefits society. If said innovation is not beneficial, people won't use it and it'll die out.

  • @LaBambaCL
    @LaBambaCL16 күн бұрын

    a keen video of insights into china's recent history

  • @summerchina6568
    @summerchina656816 күн бұрын

    I lived through the 1990s and 2000s in Shanghai. Imagine, in the late 1990s, a Shanghainese colleague of mine told me he did not have modern toilet at home and he lived near Huai Hai road. If you have been to Shanghai, you would know Huai Hai road is the most modern, up-market part of Shanghai. The transformation during the last 30 years is absolutely mind boggling.

  • @steaminglobster
    @steaminglobster16 күн бұрын

    Science/technology innovations comes hand-in-hand with industrial development. China comes late in the industry age and now China is picking up its speed. With this momentum, in the very near future, China will lead in innovations.

  • @makeshift722
    @makeshift72216 күн бұрын

    Doesn't the number of patents help provide evidence of innovation rather then being "hyper-adoptive and hyper-adaptive consumers"? Let's look at the numbers: "According to a report from the National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES)....inventors in China applied for roughly 68,600 patents in 2022 through the Patent Cooperation Treaty, which allows inventors to file across many countries at once" "There were about 58,200 U.S.-based applications the same year - the most recent year for which the data has been compiled. " 🤔

  • @yingxu7908
    @yingxu790816 күн бұрын

    Thank you for the info

  • @user-kh4qm1dv1q
    @user-kh4qm1dv1q16 күн бұрын

    Kevin, always enjoyed your daily postings!!

  • @Silent_Awareness
    @Silent_Awareness16 күн бұрын

    Good content, and i know the video is recorded outside, but does anyone else hear another voice simultaneously talking while the host is talking? It sounds like a somewhat audible "subliminal" track in the background?

  • @shaundudley4576

    @shaundudley4576

    16 күн бұрын

    the guy seems to be a bit of a religious nut. Its scripture playing. Freaky but I love him.

  • @kindface
    @kindfaceКүн бұрын

    Kevin, your channel should easily be garnering 300K-500K subscribers by now. Straight-up great analyses and perspectives with no put-downs, biases or gloating. Americans in particular really need to pay attention to your channel. Keep up the good work.

  • @ParkerAt941
    @ParkerAt94116 күн бұрын

    Do you know when the traffic lights in your street started having a ticking down seconds LED display? Guess who invented this.

  • @DW-op7ly

    @DW-op7ly

    16 күн бұрын

    There is now “ 27” books published on what the Chinese invented. That says we copied from them 👇 Why was China erased from Western memory The remarkable history of Chinese invention - Why was China erased from Western memory? Article by 龙信明 Introduction Joseph Needham was an English medical doctor and biologist, teaching in England in the 1930s. By an accident of fate he acquired some Chinese students, and was intrigued to hear their claims of so many medical and scientific discoveries having originated in China, rather than in the West. Needham became fully fluent in Chinese, and eventually moved to China in 1942 to investigate these claims and to research the entire history of Chinese invention. That work led to an astonishing voyage of historical discovery. Needham originally planned to write a book cataloguing Chinese inventions, but his first volume barely scratched the surface of his subject. He slowly gatherred many of his students into this enterprise, and they eventually wrote a collection of 26 books, to catalog the history of Chinese discovery. Myth and Misrepresentation It leaves one speechless to learn the vast extent of things invented by the Chinese many hundreds of years, and often several millennia, before they appeared in the West. MySingaporeBlogSpot

  • @dsc0273
    @dsc027315 күн бұрын

    Great video Kevin

  • @AIPretendingToBeHuman
    @AIPretendingToBeHuman16 күн бұрын

    "24 Apr 2024 IDC: Chinese Smartphone Market Maintains its Recovery Momentum at 6.5% Growth in 1Q24, Honor and Huawei Tied for Top Spot"

  • @DragonYang01
    @DragonYang0116 күн бұрын

    The Western version of innovations are driven by curiosity (for science) and greed (for business). Both are not readily available in poor countries when filling stomachs is daily struggle. Now, 90% of American are struggling with basic living needs and leave the innovations to the elite groups, engineers or businessmen. In China, the situation is quite different. Despite of much lower GDP per capita in China, the living cost is quite low. People have a good saving and have extra money to try new things. American had that kind of luxury 20 years ago.

  • @Lee-Van-Cle
    @Lee-Van-Cle14 күн бұрын

    plain facts with insight, thnx!

  • @professorrobertphd
    @professorrobertphd16 күн бұрын

    This Channel is amazing. Will get to 500K subs soon

  • @meilingfoo8771
    @meilingfoo877116 күн бұрын

    Hi Kevin, your videos are like a breath of fresh air...love your content and presentation and find myself looking forward to your next upload. Thank you and keep up the good work.

  • @7hx89
    @7hx8916 күн бұрын

    You are a poet. Your logical storyline supported by numbers creates a lasting and heartfelt impression. Thank you for sharing. ❤ The world will be a better place if every nation can peacefully share their progresses with each other.

  • @rowo4956
    @rowo495616 күн бұрын

    A great lesson in conceptual thinking and asthonishing to see the lack of this in people who think to be way smarter than everybody else. A nice illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

  • @DW-op7ly

    @DW-op7ly

    16 күн бұрын

    There is a debate if Dunning-Kruger is real or just be a data artefact. To me it does not matter what one calls it 👇 What is the Dunning-Kruger effect? When we don't know enough to know what we don't know. * So goes the reasoning behind the Dunning-Kruger effect, the inclination of unskilled or unknowledgeable people to overestimate their own competence. LiveScience 👇 Why we overestimate our competence Social psychologists are examining people's pattern of overlooking their own weaknesses. Cross-cultural comparisons Regardless of how pervasive the phenomenon is, it is clear from Dunning's and others' work that many Americans, at least sometimes and under some conditions, have a tendency to inflate their worth. It is interesting, therefore, to see the phenomenon's mirror opposite in another culture. In research comparing North American and East Asian self-assessments, Heine of the University of British Columbia finds that East Asians tend to underestimate their abilities, with an aim toward improving the self and getting along with others. These differences are highlighted in a meta-analysis Heine is now completing of 70 studies that examine the degree of self-enhancement or self-criticism in China, Japan and Korea versus the United States and Canada. Sixty-nine of the 70 studies reveal significant differences between the two cultures in the degree to which individuals hold these tendencies, he finds. In another article in the October 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (Vol. 81, No. 4), Heine's team looks more closely at how this occurs. First, Japanese and American participants performed a task at which they either succeeded or failed. Then they were timed as they worked on another version of the task. "The results made a symmetrical X," says Heine: Americans worked longer if they succeeded at the first task, while Japanese worked longer if they failed. There are cultural, social and individual motives behind these tendencies, Heine and colleagues observe in a paper in the October 1999 Psychological Review (Vol. 106, No. 4). "As Western society becomes more individualistic, a successful life has come to be equated with having high self-esteem," Heine says. "Inflating one's sense of self creates positive emotions and feelings of self-efficacy, but the downside is that people don't really like self-enhancers very much." Conversely, East Asians' self-improving or self-critical stance helps them maintain their "face," or reputation, and as a result, their interpersonal network. But the cost is they don't feel as good about themselves, he says. Because people in these cultures have different motivations, they make very different choices, Heine adds. If Americans perceive they're not doing well at something, they'll look for something else to do instead. "If you're bad at volleyball, well fine, you won't play volleyball," as Heine puts it. East Asians, though, view a poor performance as an invitation to try harder. Interestingly, children in many cultures tend to overrate their abilities, perhaps because they lack objective feedback about their performance. For example, until about third grade, German youngsters generally overrate their academic achievement and class standing. This tendency declines as feedback in the form of letter grades begins. But researchers also have shown significant cross-cultural differences in youngsters' performance estimates--American children, it appears, are particularly prone to overestimate their competence. APA

  • @JAREDPLY1
    @JAREDPLY116 күн бұрын

    Hi Kevin, I'm a huge fan of the channel , i believe there is prayer you play in the background of your videos , thank you for this , as a humble suggestion please could you play it on full at the end of your video and not while you speak. Thank you and great work.

  • @TonyBraun

    @TonyBraun

    16 күн бұрын

    .mumble........mumble........mumble.......do one thing at a time

  • @turtlesoup8134

    @turtlesoup8134

    16 күн бұрын

    please don't. Not everyone like to be a christian and this video is about economic news. Don't mix the two up.

  • @penglim224
    @penglim22414 күн бұрын

    Agreed on your definition of innovation. Winning innovation competition is sometimes pointless, because the idea or product is too expensive to produce or not so useful in daily life. Moving into the future, people need their lifestyle to be improved so they can live better meaningfully and productively. Thankful for so many affordable modern things.

  • @Swuave123
    @Swuave12316 күн бұрын

    Why do u always have background talking in ur videos at the end and throughout?

  • @rogerhill138
    @rogerhill13816 күн бұрын

    Thanks. Really interesting. Best wishes from collapsing UK!😂

  • @kibakobo
    @kibakobo16 күн бұрын

    3:50 they alleviated their stature,

  • @The0ldg0at
    @The0ldg0at16 күн бұрын

    Innovation is not about creativity it's about inventivity. It's field tested creative ideas that give to the consumers the qualities of using a product. In Arts and Antertainments Creativity is the decisive factor for innovation, in Science and Technology it's Inventivity the decisive factor for innovation.

  • @charleskurniawan2950
    @charleskurniawan295015 күн бұрын

    I lived in beijing on 2005. I cant even have a nostalogic moment anymore when i go back to beijing, because everything has changed

  • @jogana6909
    @jogana690915 күн бұрын

    China people are earnest and diligent.

  • @waichui2988
    @waichui298816 күн бұрын

    It's the sense of superiority. If they have not done something so far, then they cannot do it, meaning they cannot do it in a hundred years. I wonder whether these "scholars" ever study history of development. Things happen in sequence. You have to develop your human capital step by step. First you copy. Then you revise the product or production method to suit your condition better. Then you are rich enough to do research. I am old enough to remember these people saying Japanese could not innovate. I wonder whether the British said the same thing about Germans or Americans in the late nineteenth century.

  • @rafa374
    @rafa37416 күн бұрын

    vg video - point that they are living and seeing constant massive change is v. important. I wonder how life in the US compares - lotta roads, infrastructure getting if anything worse, no?

  • @nyanga3376
    @nyanga337616 күн бұрын

    Research selective as Russia and Vietnam should be second and third ahead of Poland.!Russia and Vietnam per capita GDP increases more than expected p fold. Only reason for exclusion as that would have shown so-called western authoritarian countries doing better than so-called western democracies.

  • @Barber-yy3mi
    @Barber-yy3mi16 күн бұрын

    What's left unsaid is difficult for Americans and that's the Bell Curve. The reality is that even in America, advance scientific research is very often contributed by PRC genetics.

  • @MegaPapa8888
    @MegaPapa888816 күн бұрын

    People go out at night to enjoy the view and don't worry about their safety etc. That is one thing we have to learn.

  • @danielodey7775
    @danielodey777515 күн бұрын

    China's growth resembles Japan's modernization from 1970- 1990. We all used to hear all these amazing things about Japanese manufacturing and productivity and how "Japan would overtake the West". The massive cooperation between government and companies. A lot of the "amazing statistics, from China", sounds exactly like Japan ,1985, and I use the word exactly , as I was studying science and technology policy at university.

  • @Rudyjosephjr

    @Rudyjosephjr

    Күн бұрын

    Yes. Exactly similar until they self pawn by signing plaza accord. Submitting to US demand is their biggest blunder to neuter their own economy.

  • @godfatherofcinema
    @godfatherofcinema16 күн бұрын

    Great video straight to the point and so so true and sad for the US blame it on monopolies😊

  • @Zerpentsa6598
    @Zerpentsa659815 күн бұрын

    China has been going beyond the patterns of innovation, such as the von Hippel model, the Langrish et al model, etc.

  • @linkan4738
    @linkan473816 күн бұрын

    Very interesting... where are we going from here?

  • @lilypang7590
    @lilypang759016 күн бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @fjin1
    @fjin115 күн бұрын

    What is the sound in your back ground?

  • @yeapsoon3115
    @yeapsoon311515 күн бұрын

    The report on Chinese made sonar was taken off?

  • @martinwilby8942
    @martinwilby894216 күн бұрын

    be good

  • @passby8070
    @passby807016 күн бұрын

    Since the last Harvard article, China has made the politicians in west even more uncomfortable with EVs and "over capacity" 😂

  • @magicsmurfy
    @magicsmurfy16 күн бұрын

    Tom Cotton who could not differentiate the difference between a Singaporean and CCP is graduated from Harvard. I used to have immense respect to that university. Now I know the sort of IQ that university produces. So I would not pay too much attention to what their reports say.

  • @silentbullet2023
    @silentbullet202316 күн бұрын

    Thanks for the content. A total gross expenditure of 54 trillion USD in 2019 seemed a bit off to me, considering China's GDP is 17 trillion dollars as of 2023. Have a nice day.

  • @stevenwang3232

    @stevenwang3232

    16 күн бұрын

    Money transferred amount doesn’t mean GDP amount

  • @etbuch4873
    @etbuch487316 күн бұрын

    Since 2014, I stopped believing what HBR stated regardless whoever the author was, though I still read the articles therein just to see how BS-ish they could be, for sometimes it makes one wonder if HBR stands for "How BS Reproduces?"

  • @LokeKS

    @LokeKS

    16 күн бұрын

    So true

  • @g.m.8360
    @g.m.836016 күн бұрын

    All major innovations came from the eastern regions or empires for the past five thousand plus years and is it still happening today again?🤔

  • @ranjusranjus143
    @ranjusranjus14316 күн бұрын

    Listening to these kind of presentations makes you open your mind, and realise what gvt really cares and cater for it's people. Forget about the freedom of speech speeches, the freedom of mvt speeches....all made in the si called democratic spaces.

  • @bobbylow175
    @bobbylow17516 күн бұрын

    What’s that creepy audio in the background?

  • @sinic1978
    @sinic197816 күн бұрын

    World leading Chinese technology : ByteDance TikTok algorithm. State Grid Corporation of China Ultra High Voltage transmission technology CATL and BYD batteries. BYD EVs. LONGi solar energy storage systems. DJI commercial drones. CASC and CASIC hypersonic systems. Huawei telecom gear and Industry 4.0 solutions. Hikvision and Dahua facial recognition. IFlytech voice recognition. BGI Genomics gene sequencing solutions. Goldwind and Mingyang wind turbines. USTC quantum communication satellite Mozi.

  • @motheotsatsi644

    @motheotsatsi644

    16 күн бұрын

    Next 20 years will add aerospace, semi conductors, nuclear reactors... They graduate 20 000 engineers a year. Their dominance is inevitable. This isn't 1990 Japan

  • @tvl6347

    @tvl6347

    15 күн бұрын

    ​@@motheotsatsi644 you meant about 6 millions Stems Students graduate every year ;)

  • @yujuanhe720

    @yujuanhe720

    6 күн бұрын

    There are so many more on the list, where are the companies in optic valley in Wuhan?

  • @sinic1978

    @sinic1978

    6 күн бұрын

    @@yujuanhe720 just list the companies that are easier for people to remember.

  • @user-qd8yg1fp7i
    @user-qd8yg1fp7i16 күн бұрын

    OOHH Shooot! I thought China has collapsed! Thanks a lot, Gordon Chang!

  • @peanut0brain

    @peanut0brain

    16 күн бұрын

    China will collapse after many generations of Gordon changs. Actually he shouldn't reproduce.

  • @user-yn7dx7ok5u
    @user-yn7dx7ok5u7 күн бұрын

    I am curious about how long have you been in China? Why you know so much?

  • @bhtansg
    @bhtansg14 күн бұрын

    What an astounding view of the night skyline of Shanghai!

  • @theRedstoneinn_Dubuque
    @theRedstoneinn_Dubuque16 күн бұрын

    ❤👍👍👍👍👍👏🙏🔥😍❤️

  • @TearsInTheRain101
    @TearsInTheRain10116 күн бұрын

    Has anyone else noticed the religious text being read out in the background audio? What is happening!!

  • @isaacisaac2380
    @isaacisaac238016 күн бұрын

    To catch up you do need to copy and other means. That’s just human nature. So what if Chinese were copying our successful aspects and neglect the side effects of that success. No biggie! We did the same to catch up to the Europeans. And they did it to catch up to the Chinese, way back when. The queen of England said tea tree planting were “spirited” over. And silk worm farming were “shared” over. And that’s among other things we copied, stole,,, etc, from China. Again, no biggie. I’m looking at videos of India and Vietnam trying to copy from China’s success in manufacturing. I wonder if they’ll be successful?

  • @qake2021
    @qake202116 күн бұрын

    👏👏👏👍✌️✌️✌️

  • @Top12Boardsport
    @Top12Boardsport15 күн бұрын

    If you begin at almost zero it’s not so difficult to get a S curve.

  • @eugenec7130
    @eugenec713016 күн бұрын

    When the world welcomes the arrival of EVs and is anticipating in driving them, the Americans burn EVs. The United States has stopped progressing and is sliding downhill.

  • @garyevergreen5035
    @garyevergreen503516 күн бұрын

    Imitation's one of the many processes that lead to innovation.

  • @justme6275
    @justme627516 күн бұрын

    Chinese culture: business and money - money makes the world go round.

  • @georgesibley7152
    @georgesibley715215 күн бұрын

    to be blunt wepay is more cumbersome than chip and pin. the problem is China's banking system is so antiquated that it cannot cope. to be honest, I think the US lags behind both China and Europe in this respect for paying by phone or just tapping your card is the norm. unfortunately, it is only beggars who lose out as no one has casj these days.

  • @4-SeasonNature
    @4-SeasonNature16 күн бұрын

    What's that biblical message in the background?

  • @termyfl2677
    @termyfl267716 күн бұрын

    Tik tok and Huawei are illuminating innovative entities

  • @bionicsix101
    @bionicsix10116 күн бұрын

    What’s with the subliminal voice talking religion under the video?

  • @MathewVarkey-lp6gp
    @MathewVarkey-lp6gp16 күн бұрын

    Do you speak Chinese?

  • @acuantjahyadi7393

    @acuantjahyadi7393

    16 күн бұрын

    Bahasa tidak masalah jika anda dapat manfaatnya. Buktikan dan rasakan keindahan tanpa anda mengerti arti dari bahasa itu Flothing light Zhou Shen 👍

  • @MittensUK
    @MittensUK16 күн бұрын

    This is a really bizarre linking of innovation to growth figures a super massive 2nd world economy industrialising and modernising. Growth is growth, a percentage of legacy GDP to new GDP. You then talked about 8 of the 10 companies in the world achieving a $1B valuation but at least you pointed that out was in modern times. And then compared Apple (a 2.6 Trillon Dollar company with good outlooks for the future) payments to WeChat QR and said and again used that to support your argument of innovation. So where is the innovation QR codes? Denso in Japan or what? You're making weird links all the time.

  • @kckoay6211
    @kckoay621116 күн бұрын

    The measure of an economy is a nation’s ability to produce goods and services. Today, with China’s huge, well educated, and industrious populace under the stewardship of a highly competitive government, the economic momentum so created is unmatched elsewhere on the planet. “China collapse” is just an evil wish driven a convoluted feeling of fear and jealousy. It is not going to happen.

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