A librarian at a local University reliably reports that Chinese students photocopy and scan an amazing amount of technical literature, much more than any student could possibly need.
They sure do.
No surprise. About 20 years ago I was in line at a Best Buy and a Chinese national college student (couldn’t speak English at register) had a shopping cart literally filled with thousands of blank recordable CD’s. Hmmmm...I wonder what kind of data transfer that was all about...although a spare hard drive might have made more sense....who knows....
When I was in a computer science program back in the day we used to call the taiwanese students “Team Xerox”. ;-)