Luke's on the money. Having lived and flown there for some time I support his assessment of it all. The kids are too busy blinding themsleves at computers over studying or gaming for X hours daily that they will never reach the perfect health requirements of CAAC anyway.
DD
P.S. The Chinese in fact don't plan that far ahead, that's not to say they don't have a plan - but their drama is sticking to the commitment of a plan. In my own experience of Large GA - they stumble from one shimozzle to another - then when they "make a plan" on the run they will find someone to blame if it doesn't work or over congratulate themselves and accredit the result to the great cultural champions running the place if it does. Success by concealment and volume of effort/events.
Last edited by PO dust devil; 11th May 2012 at 17:36.