Is China really a technologically advanced country?

Question

Want to know if they are really doing some good progress in the field of Science or they are just good at reverse engineering?

Answer 1

Its a yes/no answer.



SInce the US and the Allied powers reverse engineered a lot of things from Germany after WWII. For example



The Ak47 and all of its derivatives were based on the German MP44.



The Panzerfaust became the Bazooka and RPG and anti tank weapons.



Rheintochter missile was the basis for many missiles.This has legs, because a US reverse engineered it and improved on it, they then used an early version in the Taiwanese straits crisis of 1958. Where the missile hit a Chinese mig 17 but failed to explode, it ended up in Moscow. And the USSR copied it too.



The V1 flying bombs became cruise missiles.



V2 rocket technology was used in both the US and USSR as well as UK missile and space programmes (UK did not have a space programme it did make blue streak however).



Synthetic rubber, the Haber–Bosch process was taken by all powers post ww2 to make amonia vital to feed the world.



Off my head I can think of Hybrid rice being an incredibly important invention which increased rice yields greatly discovered in the 1970s. Also the pebblebed reactor, which the Germans and South Africans apparently couldn't get to work effectively Tsinghua university is building the first operational one not a prototype in 2013.



There are probably many things copied back and forth, and some natively designed things and some copied things which everybody does.....

Answer 2

They are good at reverse engineering . We all are . Some people think that ever thing that come out of WW2 come from one place .Wrong. As for China they might have good schools , but the people have not seen it .

Answer 3

Are you asking about the way people live or the labs and education they have? They have very good schools and education system but the standard of living is well below the US. Many homes I have been to the kitchen is more like the 1940's. They are advancing but with 1.3 billion people it will take them quite a while to catch up with the times. I have a son going to school in Beijing and I think his school is as good as any. The pollution is the first and biggest thing I think people from overseas notices first and foremost. It is very bad.

Answer 4

I lived in China and found them in some ways 50 years behind the US and up to date in others, If the government would do more for the people they would soon be up to and maybe ahead of the US in all ways. You are going to ask in what ways are they behind. Mosquito's are carriers of many disease and there in no program to control them. To have a 5 gallon of propane in your kitchen is not good. I could go on and on but if you lived in both places you would see for yourself.

Answer 5

Yes

see the wonderful life The Communist Party has provide us



http://forum1.hkgolden.com/view.aspx?message=1437466&fanti=0





and in Beijing and Shanghai have trains!

Answer 6

They have the same things as us, but given their enormous population they are able to make better or more versions of the same thing. Like apple and Mac, they are making their own computer. Not to sure about science though.

Answer 7

They are quite good at developing new uses for existing technology as well as developing entirely new technologies. Beijing University is easily the equal of MIT, Harvard, Rutgers...and that's certainly not the only excellent university in China...

Answer 8

No. The Chinese have invented nothing for approx 500 years. What technology they have has been stolen from other countries.

Lets see if any China lovers can give you any examples of Chinese new technology that hasn't been stolen.....I doubt it !



EDIT:-

11 answers so far and NOT ONE example of Chinese invented new technology or scientific advancements !

There simply aren't ANY !

Answer 9

Yes, not only in Science but also in Medicine. They have developed this way of killing cancer cells by freezing it then exploding it, something like that.