China: from an assembling country to an innovating country

In my work as a physicist I study nonlinear dynamical systems, that is, I try to understand how complex systems composed of many interacting parts evolve over time — in particular gravitational systems such as galaxies — and which mechanisms determine their changes. From this point of view, China represents an extremely interesting case, because in the last forty years it has undergone transformations of extraordinary magnitude.

It is therefore interesting to try to understand, at least in its general lines, how this exceptional economic and technological development has taken place. The fundamental transition has been that from an essentially assembling country — this was China of the early 2000s, when products whose technology was developed elsewhere were assembled — to an innovating country, that is, capable of designing and producing its own technology.

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