What Dan Wang thinks about education
Writer and analyst of Chinese technology and industry, for years based in Beijing and Shanghai, best known for his annual letters and for the argument that manufacturing capability lives in accumulated process knowledge rather than in tools or intellectual property.
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1 dated position, 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Dan Wang has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldThe 2021 crackdown was a bounded correction, and it would take more than a regulatory campaign to defeat China's economic dynamism.
No longer holdsWhat I did not sufficiently appreciate is that a state that would so casually decapitate a sector like online tutoring would also have the will to visit catastrophe upon whole cities.
SaidI perceive a fading sense of enthusiasm among businesspeople and youths.