cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52365672

https://archive.is/ox58Y

• These days, it’s the foreigners visiting China who often experience future shock, astonished by the towering skyscrapers, high-speed rail, megabridges, and ubiquitous electric cars, super-apps, and trifold smartphones.

• The country now accounts for 70 percent of the world’s granted AI patents, 75 percent of global patent applications in clean-energy technology, 41 percent of granted patents in the life sciences and biotechnology, and more patent applications in fusion technology than any other country.

• Eight of the world’s top 10 institutions by research output are in China, according to the Nature Index.