按: 阅最新版<<NATURE>>, 读到 Paul Smaglik (Naturejobs editor) 写的" China Syndrome". 觉得好玩, 摘贴于此.
The US National Science Foundation’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 could perhaps be renamed “Here Comes China”, due to the following facts:
• China has increased its R&D investment 24% per year over the past five years, compared with 4-5% for the U.S.. This growth, from US$12.4 billion in 1991 to $84.6 billion in 2003, puts the country behind only Japan and the United States.
• Investment by US-based multinationals into Asian markets outside Japan has more than doubled, from $1.5 billion in 1994 to $3.5 billion in 2002, with more than $1 billion going into China alone.
• Chinese students earn more US science and engineering Ph.D.’s than those of any other foreign nation.
In the meantime, Ph.D.’s by US white males has dropped from its peak of about 8,900 in 1994 to just over 7,000 in 2003.
