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                Published on: 10. March 2021
            
        Education level endangers growth in China
China's plans to become an "industrial superpower" have received much attention. Beijing wants to move into new sectors – for example, AI, robots, new mobility – and make the economy more innovative. But education levels threaten to stifle growth, as Scott Rozelle, a development economist at Stanford University, reports in his new book, Invisible China.
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