Re:Why Jet Engines Aren't "Made in China"
by noir_lord on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:26AM
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Almost everyone at the top of the CCP has an engineering background.
So yeah their five year plans are indeed often “Invest in science/engineering”, they are an interesting country.
Is that really that interesting? Imagine giving a bunch of tech nerds some funds and freedom to do whatever. The end result will be software/tech (whether the product is useful is actually another story).
If you're a small country, sure, that kind of strategy might make sense. Pick your battles, run the country like a startup (i.e. bet on one or two industries). China's strategy is the opposite of that: just make production costs low across the board (transport, energy, housing, etc.) and let everything else follow. With 1.4 billion people, something somewhere is bound to pop off.
People are reading way too much into the 5-year plans. It basically boils down to "do science across the board, but lean a bit more into these areas."