Academic incompetence, inadequate students and unchallenging work pretty much describe what we have on day to day basis in PRC. You could be in a countryside where nobody cares or in a major city where some local pros create nonsensical systems with masses following them to survive. Either way, you'll see the product (students/intellectuals) that is mostly unable to create a professional piece of work. I have had scores of students at the intermediate level of English who were completely inept to write simple research essays even after two semesters of intensive preparation. Yet, Chinese fly to space for they've copied our technologies, they get to our universities and in many cases corrupt our education all the way as they have money and they are capable to sustain their live styles. How China has had the power to grow at such a pace and to so high proportions when it has such a dificient system is beyond me.