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...world. It isn't just about cheap labor; it's about smart labor. "Whether it's line workers or engineers, we're finding the candlepower of our employees here as good as or better than anywhere in the world," says Nick Reilly, a top executive at General Motors in Shanghai. "It all starts with the emphasis families put on the importance of education. That puts pressure on the government to deliver a decent system." (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...math and science have degrees in those subjects. (Less than half of eighth-grade math teachers in the U.S. majored in math.) There is a "master teacher" program nationwide that provides mentoring for younger teachers. Zhang Dianzhou, a professor emeritus of mathematics at East China Normal University in Shanghai who co-chaired a committee charged with redesigning high school mathematics programs across the country, says recent changes have begun to reflect more of a "real-world emphasis." Computer-science courses, for example, have been integrated into the math curriculum for high school students. And China is placing even more importance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...Look After the Elderly it's hard to imagine two societies that deal with their elderly as differently as the U.S. and China. And I can vouch for that firsthand. My wife Junling is a Shanghai native, and last month for the first time we visited my father at a nursing home in the U.S. She was shaken by the experience and later told me, "You know, in China, it's a great shame to put a parent into a nursing home." In China the social contract has been straightforward for centuries: parents raise children; then the children care...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

...snap shut their wallets. Now that it's pouring, in other words, American households have decided to save for a rainy day. The savings rate is currently about 4% and has gone as high as 6% this year. (See TIME's photo-essay "A New Look at Old Shanghai...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China | 11/12/2009 | See Source »

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