Is there a shortage of innovative scientific and technological talents in America?

It depends on what level and what aspect. The advantages of the United States in basic scientific research are enormous. For example: natural index. This index is basically used to measure a country's basic scientific research ability. At present, China's natural index is about two-thirds that of the United States. But we don't need to sell ourselves short, because China's natural index is equivalent to the sum of the whole world except China and the United States.

At present, the innovation ability of the United States in industry and engineering is obviously backward. Here, I want to say that many people have an illusion that what China can do is something without technical content. However, it is science and technology to invent a thing, and it is also science and technology to turn an invention into an industrial product, and it is still science and technology to produce industrial products at a very low price and with a large output. In recent years, China has changed many things from gold to cabbage, which is a revolutionary technology. Why did the Sino-US Rare Earth War last for more than ten years? Not only has the mining industry not been lost, but the rare earth smelting industry has also been monopolized by us. The United States has engaged in nearly 200 rare earth projects all over the world, and the results are basically rotten. Rare earth ores produced in the United States must be sold to China for processing. Some time ago, there was a view that Americans have established their own abilities, but they don't need them. They are all made in China. In fact, this nonsense is not worth refuting-capitalists are so stupid that they put money aside and eat ash? In fact, they were defeated in the market, and the reason for their defeat was that most of the majors in this industry came from China. Up to now, some people will say that high-purity rare earth is still better than Japan, but they don't see that the annual output of high-purity rare earth is only 100 tons, and they deny hundreds of thousands of tons of the whole rare earth industry with 100 tons of high-purity rare earth. Is there too much water in this brain? Of course, they subconsciously still think that ordinary rare earths have no technical content, but if they really have technical content, why can't the United States do it itself? What's more, the top of an industry is built on the foundation, and the collapse of the foundation is only a matter of time. There is a practical example: hypersonic speed. In fact, the superb level of the United States is earlier than that of China, and the level is higher. But now China has formed a huge advantage over the United States, and Americans can't get back the level they once reached. Why? There is something wrong with the heat insulation material. The technology of heat-proof materials in the United States should be strong in theory, but when Americans combed the superb industrial chain the year before last, they found that the whole heat-proof materials industry completely disappeared. Even if they used to be able to mass-produce mature products, now they can't even make a few small batches of experimental bombs.

Macroscopically, the number of patents in China has surpassed that in the United States, and industrial design is n times that in the United States. The reason is actually obvious-at present, there are only more than 500 thousand science and engineering graduates in the United States every year, about half of whom are international students. There are huge problems in their education, and they have been unable to train enough scientific and technological talents. The United States has ensured the quality of talents at the top of the pyramid by attracting a large number of high-tech immigrants, but the middle and low-level scientific and technological talents, or the whole scientific and technological foundation, have not kept up. As a result, many things invented in American laboratories can only be realized in China. The real problem here is that the United States actually has no engineering skills in most industries. This is why American technology giants complain that a project can find hundreds of engineers in China, while only a few can be found in the United States.

After talking about the hierarchy, I will briefly mention the industry. Please remember that the low price of industrial products itself comes from the level of science and technology. Otherwise, wages in India are even lower. Why can't we produce cheaper products than China or even Viet Nam? When the cost gap is large, it is actually the gap in scientific and technological level.

At present, the United States can still produce very cheap and high-quality products in aircraft, rockets and chips, and some things are cheaper than ours, which is the advantage of scientific and technological level. But at the same time, in many industries, the cost of American manufacturing is too high, so I won't list them one by one.