在延续几千年的传统文化的基础上，中国投入了巨大的资源用于发现、遴选和培养行政管理和技术人才，这对于中国建立一套管理大规模公共工程所需要的强大国家能力至关重要。
Adhering to thousands of years of tradition, China has devoted considerable resources to the identification, selection, and grooming of administrative and technical talent. This has been essential to China’s ability to develop the strong state capacity needed to manage large-scale public projects.