China's Week, August 11

900 RISC engineers graduate p.a.; a complete fast reactor supply chain; a 3MT green ammonia factory; free kindergarten; "Our E-3 sensors are not really capable against the J-20," says USAF General..

Science & Technology

“China has now independently mastered all the core and supporting technologies for large fast reactors after a decade of research, exploration and engineering practice, and has the world’s most complete fast reactor industry chain.”

After Beijing adopted open-source RISC as the national instruction set, Shanghai developed a RISC-V training program for 12 universities that are poised to graduate 900 RISC engineers annually.

China goes ‘back to the future’. Western companies viewed IP as a fortress: patent it, lock it in and guard it. But China’s IP system is taking a collective approach: open source, open data, shared patents, open APIs and innovation commons. It’s no longer who owns the invention but how that invention gets embedded into an ecosystem. In a country where collective systems have structured society for more than two