BEIJING – Although the American-born skier Eileen Gu became a darling of the Chinese public during the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China trained many of its sports champions at home, through its juguo (whole nation) sports regime.
And now China is applying the juguo approach — deploying massive resources to achieve a strategic objective or build national prestige — to attaining world-class technological prowess.
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