To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (147507 ) 4/1/2019 4:18:02 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217553 Maybe pole-climbers and haters are right, that the Chinese can neither invent nor innovate, and can only copy, badly at that Simple response would be, oh, okay, nothing to worry about then per return to natural size China should soon enough become the land of dying factories and dying people. Incidentally there are certainly lots of factories, and presumably many shall die. Some gets turned into hotels ... and such gets connected by tradition means - rafts and trains Totally unrelated, but coincidentally (but no worries, because return-to-natural-size-olive pole climbers intone that team China shall run out of olives or accountantsbloomberg.com How a Dying Factory Became a Symbol of China’s Tech MightBeijing-based display maker topped LCD market in last year A quarter-century ago, Beijing Electron teetered on the brink of collapse, a government behemoth brought to its knees by superior foreign technology. Decades later, fueled by billions in state funds, a re-christened BOE Technology Group Co. does business with Apple Inc. and has its sights on becoming the biggest supplier of next-generation screens. It’s a turnaround authored by Wang Dongsheng, an accountant who took over an ailing vacuum-tube factory -- then begged his underlings for bailout money, at one point dabbling in producing mouthwash to make ends meet. But he ultimately secured capital from Beijing to build the biggest producer of flat displays, and devised BOE’s ascension to the pinnacle of screen-making: mastering bendable displays set to underpin a generation of malleable smartphones from the Samsung Fold to -- maybe -- a future iPhone .