Welcome to the winter issue of The World Today.
From robotics and renewables, to pharmaceuticals and electric vehicles, China now makes technology products as well as anyone, but considerably cheaper. And that is posing challenges to Europe and the United States that neither is rising to, writes James Kynge. Yet as Beijing bids to reinforce its tech advantage in its next Five-Year Plan, writes Yu Jie, is it at risk of leaving behind its young unemployed?