Chinese R&D: naissance, renaissance, or mirage?
本文从经济、政治和历史角度回顾中国现代研发历程，分析1978年改革前后的科技努力、1980年代的主要问题及20年工业化的成果，并评估新世纪初期中国研发能力及未来挑战。
China's re‐emergence has been treated mostly from economic and political standpoints. This article integrates these perspectives with a review of China's modern history of research and development (R&D). It starts with a brief retrospective of China's efforts in science and technology before the reforms of 1978. It then discusses China's principle R&D issues in the early 1980s and the most significant results of 20 years of rapid industrialization. Based on this historic review and a wide literature analysis, some observations are made about China's R&D capabilities in the first years of the new millennium as well as what challenges may still lie ahead for China before becoming a leading source of scientific and technological innovation.