cavernous factory of Dongfang Heavy Machinery Company , a state-owned firm based in Guangdong province, lies what looks like a suit of armour built for a mis-shapen giant. In fact, they are parts built to contain something even more fearsome—nuclear reactors and the high-pressure, high-temperature steam that they produce. Some are still being worked on.
A very similar story can be seen in the country’s high-speed-rail network, though with a telling interlude. China committed to high-speed rail, as to nuclear plants, under Deng Xiaoping in the early 1990s. But it started off down a home-grown technological dead end of trains which, instead of running on wheels, levitate above their track on magnetic fields. Engineers around the world had failed to make such systems work; Chinese engineers proved no exception.
For any technology that seems to meet a national need but faces right-of-way issues during its deployment, as high-speed rail does, or concerns about public safety, as nuclear does, there is no greater ally than the Chinese Communist Party. When 1m people in Hong Kong signed a petition against the construction of a nuclear plant nearby, a Chinese minister shut down their complaints by stating that “unscientific objections” would not stop the project.
Being a one-party state does not blind China to public concerns about safety. When 40 people died in a high-speed-train collision near the city of Wenzhou in 2011, the public was outraged. Passenger numbers fell; work on new lines was paused; safety procedures were scrutinised. There has not been a similar accident since.
Life finds a way? Had to keep your ass alive so you stole. I get it
They’re copied after decades of spying and IP duplication.
Lie in copying western innovations (copy & past). But tomorrow they will be inventors as old days. Western universities sell Western sciences, China pays a good price & buys them. This happens when the money is the first even if it was over the own power and national security.
NYCNavid what in the heck, of course you don't particularly need to innovate when you have multiple decades of catching up to do first and a GDP of less than $10k/per capita when you're that far behind obviously just copying is going to be the most efficient approach 🙄
Hundreds or even thousands of years ago, the Chinese invented compass, paper, gunpowder, printing, porcelain, silk, etc. Where did they steal these at that time?
For now. Let’s circle back to this in 20 years however.
Agreed! The amount of spread is absolutely contagious. Almost viral if you will...
In China’s case, lies on hacking and stealing intellectual property. The whole world knows that.
You people are really up Chinas ass, you to pull your head out of chinas ass and take a breath and see the real Marxism.
Hyping China 😂🤣😂 A so called communist country that is nothing but a workshop and subcontractor to the Capitalist and Emperyalist system Just laughing my.... Off 🤣😂😂
If by force acquisition and manufacturing items of nuclear technology, and rolling stocks is defined as development of China. Then the article is absurd, biased and not worth reading.
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The china high speed train integrated safety system guaranteed maximum casualties to 35 lives. Allow instant burrowing of trash too!
The point of this article is, the US government should also consider putting more effort into the development of things that will actually benefit the people, instead of wasting money sending troops everywhere to mess up other countries.
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Why would the U.S. do this......👀
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It’s what we-the-US did to the British — i.e. early Industrial Revolution techniques — also what you Brits did to The French... per the French, anyway... they invented the light bulb & the movies & the computer punchcard & all sorts of other cool stuff, ya’ know... :-)
China today are struggling to buy the latest high-tech machine, export of which from Europe was abruptly stopped. Importance of this machine capable to made next gen even smaller chips – on the level like the Khan which stole nuclear secrets for making Pakistan first atomic bomb.
Ianbins this is pay walled .. anyone have a tl:dr?
In China, now with high speed train(200+MPH), it takes only 4.5H from Beijing to Shanghai, directly to the city center and seldom delay because of weather, while the flight takes 2.5H, from airport to airport
If only we would put more money in America.
There's no way China can advance with such pace if this last doesn't steal and indigenise foreign technologies 😎
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'Stolen'.. Stolen foreign technology.. yw..
dfhm other national champion that use knowledge from west and today look like a big company.....
It is embarrassing that they built an entire high speed rail network in a decade and it might take us another 20 years and an extra £100B to get HS2 off the ground... Not to mention that they have 99% of the worlds total of electric buses, 400,000 of them. We should be ashamed.
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