In addition to your growing economy, we admire China's extraordinary commitment to science and research -- a commitment borne out in everything from the infrastructure you build to the technology you use.

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Their research and design is on game-changing topics from how people in sub-Saharan Africa and India use computers and cell phones, to the use of Twitter and social media during crisis, to how digital gaming contributes to business relationships in China, to how American families control internet use at home.

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It will also transform Japan's 99 state-run universities and colleges into independent agencies, freeing them to accept research contracts from industry and use the money as they see fit.

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World at Work, a total rewards research and trade organization, reports that the use of recognition programs to motivate specific employee behaviors has increased from 9- to 34 percent between 2008 and 2011.

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