[The Pheonix]

A lot of Western journals, including TIME, FORBES, FORTUNE, etc, had quoted that China is currently producing about 500,000 Hi-tech engineers and Hi-tech techicans annually. A British Space-website had said that China had put 30,000 Space engineers into one special city, all working on China's Space Programme

Prof Needham of Oxford University had published a multi-volume study on Chinese inventions, and these includes paper, compass, gunpowder, paper-money, civil-service, the ship's rudder, the ship's water-tight compartments, Capitalism (the Tang Dynasty), rockets, flame flower, bronze bells casting techniques, numerous discoveries in the Sciences of Astromony, the water-wheel, paddle-boat,etc etc etc

[logic]

Sorry, with a country that old I should have specified. "In modern times" the Chinese have not been known for inventiveness. It is more the Asian culture to "fit in" and "conform" that does not promote inventiveness as the western culture does.