Chinese officials warn that people may be overestimating how much the country spends on R&D.
Hot on the heels of the OECD's number crunching exercise comes a warning from the
Science and Development Network that the data "conflict with official Chinese figures".
SciDev.Net has been talking to people in China who are not quite so dazzled by the numbers. In particular, there's a warning that the country needs to invest more in basic science.
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