It's revealing to analyse this article's structure.

Paragraphs 1-6 are about Britain (which has educationally "stumbled") needing the teaching help of China (which is advancing towards "soft superpower").
Paragraphs 7-26 are about China investing in education (partly in response to shortcomings, and partly to develop international academic exchange) whilst seeking an intellectual environment to retain its high achievers.
Then paragraphs 27-39 go back to how Britain would benefit from educationally following China (which would lead to UK children "outperforming the UK curriculum").
And the heading indicates that all this about "export opportunity".

It's as if the article were written with two purposes: to report developments in Chinese education; and to show that Britain isn't as good as China (which would marginalize British comment), against a background of trade (which is currently a Chinese success and a British concern).

(Continued in a second part.)