Source: Global Times
Brazil's "Estado de S. Paulo" newspaper article on June 26, original title: Three "Technology Lessons" from China, which will make you rethink everything. Do you know that feeling when you realize you've been going in the wrong direction all along? When I delved into the data on China's technological transformation, I had that feeling. While we were still debating whether it was worth promoting electronic payments, China seemed to no longer need wallets. I'm not exaggerating.
Let me tell you a story that changed my perspective. People who have been to China often talk about things that sound like science fiction: there, you can order coffee and pay with your phone without seeing a cashier at all; foldable screen phones are as common as smartphones; autonomous cars drive smoothly. But what impressed me most wasn't the technology itself, but how naturally everything happened.
China's technological transformation has taught me three lessons. The first lesson surprised me: Chinese consumers did something that challenged Western logic - they skipped the analog technology phase and directly moved to the digital economy, without experiencing the drawbacks of analog technology. Do you know what this means? While Western countries are burdened by decades of "it's always been this way," China isn't, and this lack of burden has become one of China's greatest competitive advantages.
The second lesson came from the case of DeepSeek. Despite the impact of U.S. restrictions on high-end chips, China developed an alternative that amazed Silicon Valley. Restrictions became a laboratory for creativity. This made me rethink how many times I have turned limitations into excuses rather than drivers of innovation.
The third lesson is to think further ahead. A Chinese CEO asked Brazilian executives what their company would look like in 30 years. What followed was an awkward silence. We are busy putting out fires, but we forget to build fireproof structures. China thinks about generations, while we rarely even consider what comes after the next quarter.
These three lessons taught me something valuable: innovation is not about having all the resources, but about completely rethinking how to use the resources we already have. Understand that sometimes, the biggest obstacle to the future is past success. (Author: Amanda Grazianno, consultant for the United Nations Global Compact, translated by Xiao Tong)
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