The successful business owners has expensive cars, so by buying an expensive car anyone can be successful business owner.There are robust datasets and studies/analyses. Examples that come to mind are from McKinsey, Battelle, Nature articles and the US national science foundation. There are lots of issues, but the conclusion is that China has a competitive environment for R&D.
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The above statement is true as much as saying by spending a lot for R&D any country can be rich.