Faster, better, cheaper. For years, this has been the maxim that has guided Chinese companies and manufacturers, who draw on foreign technology and ideas, imitate their products, but do it quicker, better and at a fraction of the cost.
It is a business model that has fuelled the rise of the world’s second-largest economy, but now Beijing is bent on changing this.
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