Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
Certainly a number inherited but others all or most of their own luck and wealth in everything from fashion to sporting goods to flooring to Chinese restaurants, proving once again that ingenuity is the mother of invention, and an essential ingredient to making our list.