{"id":17156,"date":"2018-09-13T11:40:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T16:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17156"},"modified":"2018-09-13T11:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T16:40:03","slug":"chinese-researchers-are-outperforming-americans-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17156","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Researchers Are Outperforming Americans in Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For decades, China&#8217;s growth was driven by shifting workers from agriculture to manufacturing.\u00a0As the country started to approach the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lewis_turning_point\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lewis turning point<\/a>, when such shifts no longer raise overall productivity, the government made an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2015-05-18\/academic-bonds-strengthen-between-u-s-and-china\" target=\"_blank\">increasingly concerted effort<\/a> to build the scientific base to provide another vector for growth. The results of those efforts are showing up in both the rankings of Chinese universities (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/a\/201806\/08\/WS5b1aa07da31001b82571f06c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">11<\/a> of the top 100 globally) and in scholarly output.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-09-12\/chinese-researchers-are-outperforming-americans-in-science\">Chinese Researchers Are Outperforming Americans in Science &#8211; Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, China&#8217;s growth was driven by shifting workers from agriculture to manufacturing.\u00a0As the country started to approach the so-called Lewis turning point, when such shifts no longer raise overall productivity, the government made an increasingly concerted effort to build &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17156\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[277,367,525],"class_list":["post-17156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-china","tag-education","tag-market-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17157,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17156\/revisions\/17157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}