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March 2007

China’s science community moves towards a more market-oriented mindset

All it took was a pen, a piece of paper and some scientific principles honed at Shanghai's Fudan University, but for chemistry student Meng Ge the pay-off was particularly sweet. By successfully meeting the R&D challenge posted anonymously on a website in 2003 by a large foreign company, she won US$5,000.

This is about four times the average yearly income of a Chinese city dweller.

"I am going to use this sum of money to support my brother or fund my future research," ...

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