I think ~700,000s of thousands as per PRC own IC white paper is good start and number is relevant because few if any countries have population pool / institutional / systemic capacity to train that many specialist in one sector in short period of time to try to indigenounize the entire supply chain. But yeah incentives are not really issue IMO, all the poached TSMC/Samsung employees get royal treatment (hence literally need laws by both TW/US to block PRC poaching), meanwhile domestic crack down on soft tech is increasing salaries for hard tech like semi.
But yeah, PRC higher ed does have reputation for making coasters who thinks life is easy after getting into tier1 school after rigourous GaoKao prep. Which is why I think worth keeping eye on innovation, S&T indexes to see how PRC is doing in absolute terms. But ultimately, spamming chabuduo tier efforts that occasionally generates something high quality, but do so at PRC scale so as to generate enough incidental quality to be globally competitive is a numbers game PRC often plays to her favour.
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I think ~700,000s of thousands as per PRC own IC white paper is good start and number is relevant because few if any countries have population pool / institutional / systemic capacity to train that many specialist in one sector in short period of time to try to indigenounize the entire supply chain. But yeah incentives are not really issue IMO, all the poached TSMC/Samsung employees get royal treatment (hence literally need laws by both TW/US to block PRC poaching), meanwhile domestic crack down on soft tech is increasing salaries for hard tech like semi.
But yeah, PRC higher ed does have reputation for making coasters who thinks life is easy after getting into tier1 school after rigourous GaoKao prep. Which is why I think worth keeping eye on innovation, S&T indexes to see how PRC is doing in absolute terms. But ultimately, spamming chabuduo tier efforts that occasionally generates something high quality, but do so at PRC scale so as to generate enough incidental quality to be globally competitive is a numbers game PRC often plays to her favour.