kcran567, all you say is right. But don't be so surprized. The Chinese information draining system is terribly efficient and I will expand a little in this. Their white world S&T draining system is very well crafted. Western press also regularly hinted that massive intelligence and hacking collection operations are conducted. Kinda business as usual in today's world.
To give you a better idea of the extent of information collection, let us begin by a ground level search. Try baidu.com, the chinese equivalent of google search engine. You can access it with keying english and any other language words and expressions. Baidu is not very interesting per se, but it's an entry point, a gate.
If you are looking for Chinese S&T literature, you may rather try wangfangadata…
http://www.wanfangdata.com/
or the all encompassing Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure which has a "limited" english version
http://en.cnki.com.cn/
You will find journals for every discipline, every university and any subject. It is impressive. And accessible on the basis of pay-per-view, with limited clicks. Well, access to information will be far more expensive for a Western person or organization than for a local user (IP geoloc & triage).
To make a long story short, depending on whether you type in english or chinese KW, these "tools" produce results syndicating lots of indexed blogs, patents, book chapters, conference papers, etc. from any possibly indexed source (chinese, and non-chinese).
This system is so efficient, I'd be tempted to call it a "massive intelligence-and-education tool". As far as I can remember, it was partly dreamt of in the early 1980s, by Tsien, the father of the Chinese rocketry. No western country implemented any such equivalent "information collection and diffusion for education" system, because our S&T journal databases are NOT connected and cross-referencing each others efficiently. The Chinese government, in its position of a centralized authority, has finally managed to organize the systematic influx, index and archival, collection of useful information from every possible source in a way which is unknown to most of us in the West.
I hope this message partly opens your eyes and answers your implicit questions.
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