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The Rise of a Science Superpower
The future of science is Chinese.
Roland Pease explores how decades of strategic investment and diligent educational reform have brought China to the brink of global scientific dominance. As the world’s other scientific superpowers seemingly retreat from their historical high ground, how has China achieved such remarkable progress, both in applied and fundamental sciences? And what might that mean for the rest of us?
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11:06GMT
BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa
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