Jiang says China is moving from a manufacturing economy to a knowledge economy, but its exam-oriented school system was built to produce disciplined literate workers for labor-intensive growth rather than self-directed thinkers.
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Knowledge economy
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...finite above resources of course is manufacturing and above manufacturing is knowledge economy and then the highest is finance okay basically the game masters..."
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He argues that China's system blocks the intrinsic motivation required by a knowledge economy because students are trained to succeed inside the school system rather than learn for their own growth.
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"I mean, right now in China, there's a fundamental shift in the society. For the past 20, 30 years, China was very much a..."
"And that's what the Chinese system is very good at doing. It's very good at producing discipline -focused individuals who can read and write...."
"And that's very much what China lacks right now. And because of that, China cannot progress as a society and as an economy. And..."
"...finite above resources of course is manufacturing and above manufacturing is knowledge economy and then the highest is finance okay basically the game masters..."
"...development of AI, we move from, we sort of replace the knowledge economy that we live in today in advance, or do we turn..."
"...and for the longest time, it was trying to build a knowledge economy, it was trying to build tourism, it was trying to promote..."
"...we have the growth of urban centers, which engage in a knowledge economy, which engage in AI, in EV, in solar panels. But all..."
"...workers so they don't have the human capital to support a knowledge economy therefore they have to have they have to import it from..."
"...And they don't have an indigenous population capable of 21st century knowledge economy. So they basically import their their knowledge workers as well from..."
"...in the past 10 years, they recognize that they need a knowledge economy. They recognize that they need more tourism. That's why they spent..."
"...oil economy. It's it's been focusing on tourism, on on more knowledge, economy, and that has not really worked. So the situation in Saudi..."
"...the best universities and that's that's what's really come propel the knowledge economy and i think the third education revolution is to bring science..."
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