DAVOS, Switzerland (Xinhua) - Many
renowned experts spoke highly of Chinese innovation, technology, research and
creativity at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) here, citing China's rapid
achievements in these areas.
Pedro Sander, an associate
professor from University of Hong Kong, stressed the positive changes in
China's research environment, including improved working conditions and greater
incentives for researchers to travel to China and work at universities.
"Some well-known graphics
went back to China to work even in research labs like Microsoft or in
universities where they can build up their own groups and work on any projects
they want. So it's very open and there are a lot of collaborations with outside
as well," said Sander.
He said: "there is a big
interest to learn about technology, and the government is trying to get people
back, their goal is to establish big research groups."
Philip Jennings, general
secretary of UNI Global Switzerland said that every nation should have the
capacity for innovation in order to develop and to be competitive in the world
of information and technology.
"I think this is logical and
normal, and we've seen it certainly in China," Jennings said, "what I
think is that it's important that how you adjust your labor market, how you
keep Chinese workers with the skills that they can also be productive and to
help in the innovation process."
On labor market, Jennings said that "on
the supply side of the labor market, the development of skills, the improvement
of skills, if you take someone from the land into a factory doing repetitive
work, then perhaps the level of training required is not as demanding as a
worker who all of a sudden has to apply new technology, has to get involved in
the world of robotics, getting involved in all the side of applications. It
requires new investment, development and training of skills."
Adam Posen, president of the
Peterson Institute highlighted that development of technology in China is
important on a global level.
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"It's in everybody's
interest that China's talent, its human talent, is used for both development
and science, and it is a great thing to see these developments in the private
sectors, in companies like Alibaba and Huawei," he said.
Posen told Xinhua that there have
been questions over the fact that, out of the pool of Chinese-produced designs,
not all are world-class. Over the years, however, more and more achieve that
status.
Italian entrepreneur Mario
Moretti Polegato, CEO of fashion brand GEOX, provided Xinhua with examples of
the Chinese dynamism and circulation of ideas.
"I was informed that the
patent office in Beijing at this moment is very crowded, there are lines of
hundreds of people going to deposit ideas and patent," Polegato said, adding
"Chinese intelligence at economic level is also presented at creativity
management level."
"We don't have to forget
that many Chinese students studied abroad in Britain or the United States...We,
as Europeans, think to be still the best on this field but we have to recognize
that China is investing a lot on creativity and innovation," said
Polegato.
Polegato explained that
discovering and witnessing innovation in the past meant a trip to New York or
London. Today, these same driving forces are bringing countless people to
Shanghai.
China invited and attracted
world-class architects. They are the brains behind incredible designs like the
Beijing and Shanghai airports, and the high-rise hotels that seem to touch the
sky. China is putting in place all the existing modern art in terms of
construction, he said.
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