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The Chinese tradition of emphasizing education is also crucially important for its technological rise. Besides the government’s spending 20 percent of its budget on education, Chinese households also invest heavily, reaching levels equivalent to 50 percent of the government’s education budget. Globally, China has the highest number of students studying overseas and the ratio of these students returning to China has been increasing. All these measures endow China with not only an educated and disciplined labor force to work with newly introduced technologies, but also with the R&D capability to learn and eventually innovate on top of existing tech. Some argue that China’s strict control on its residents’ freedom of speech and censorship on flows of information – most notable in the Great Firewall — will block the exchange of ideas and thus stifle innovation. However, China’s recent phenomenal achievements in science and technology show exactly the contrary. For innovation, the biggest need is the freedom to access and communicate well-defined scientific and technological information, knowledge, and ideas in order to inspire innovation and technological progress. Beijing has never blocked these resources, such as ScienceDirect and IEEE Xplore. In fact, the Chinese government actually provides generous funding for Chinese researchers to interact and collaborate with their global counterparts.