The charismatic Hou Jianguo leads the largest research institute on the planet. The Government of the Asian giant trusts it to dominate innovation over the US
Hou Jianguo, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a video conference in Hong Kong last summer.Li ZhihuaChina News Service / Getty Images
A Hou Jianguo his scientific colleagues call it “the genius of little things“His first job was repairing small machines in a factory in Pingtan, a fishing village in southern China. With what he saved over three years he paid for the career of
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