Posted on 10/28/2022 3:55:33 AM PDT by FarCenter
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On Sunday, he was reinstated as general secretary of the party for a third term, breaking a convention established four decades ago, and there was a major reshuffle of the party’s senior leadership. The decision-making body called the Politburo gained several members with qualifications or experience working in science or technology: 6 out of 25 members now have a science background, compared to just one member in the previous Politburo.
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In 2021, China spent 2.8 trillion yuan (US$386 billion) on R&D, accounting for 2.4% of its GDP, a measure known as R&D intensity. The country’s most recent five-year plan aims for an increase of more than 7% every year from 2020 to 2025. If that continues until 2035, China’s R&D intensity could reach parity with the average for countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which has reached close to 2.7%, says Marina Zhang, who studies innovation in China at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia. However, China’s below-target GDP growth this year could mean businesses will find it harder to increase their investment in R&D, she says.
There is little doubt that China will strengthen its R&D investment despite the economic situation, says Futao Huang, a researcher in higher education at Hiroshima University in Japan. The importance of science and technology is reflected in how often the term appears in the written congress report — 44 times, compared with 17 times in the 2017 report, 16 times in 2012 and 15 times in 2007...
Qian’s analysis also found that some 42 officials with formal degrees and work experience in science have been selected for the Central Committee, a political body that comprises the party’s top leadership, including the Politburo. These members typically go on to head government bodies, including science-related ministries and research-funding agencies.
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I suspect their R&D progress will be quickly halted when their economy bottoms out.
Sorry, it ain’t gonna help science or humanity in a positive way.
I suspect an overwhelming % of their R&D budget is allocated to industrial espionage.
You expressed most eloquently what I was thinking.
An estimated trillion dollars per annum.
Science will be perverted into an instrument of the CCP.
I imagine their scientific research into biological warfare will grow significantly
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