` :::::::::The USSR is the example the Chinese do not wish to emulate - the development of new technologies stagnated in the USSR as industries were content to meet ``production quotas`` instead of improving products or even creating products based on consumer demand.  China seems extraordinarily attuned to the problem (which it saw encompassed in the ``Great Leap Forward``)  and appears quite determined not to make that same mistake twice.   Note that large numbers of influential Chinese leaders have received technical educations in the US for example.    `