Thanks to the fragmentation of production, Chinese workers are doing the low-skill parts of producing computers.

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Around 49 percent of Chinese workers think their job matches their skill set and vocational goals.

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The impression they give is a mixture of awe at China's ambition and technical skill and a far more qualified assessment of Chinese companies' ability to run international businesses.

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But even producing knock-offs takes skill, particularly when the original companies are determined to colonise the Chinese market.

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Both a lovely example of what happens when colonial and Chinese architectural styles blend, the mansion is also a monument to the entrepreneurial skill and posturing that, to this day, animates the local " Baba Nonya" community, descendants of those Chinese merchants who settled in the great Malay and Indonesian archipelagos.

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The sixth-ranked Chinese held their own against the world's top-ranked team, but lacked the skill to match the Dutch.

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