Qian Yingyi: What’s Missing in Chinese Education? Creativity

Qian Yingyi is a professor and former dean of the economics and management school at Tsinghua University.

The education system is the first thing we blame when it comes to China’s lack of creative talents. It reminds me of the Qian Xuesen problem: why do our schools fail to cultivate outstanding talents? Although Qian was talking about academia at the time, this problem can be extended to various fields. A more general question is: compared to our investment in education, to our population size, to our economic power, why are there so few creative talents coming out of our education system?