From PhysOrg.com:
Those who control the image strings for government and business interests in China, the world’s largest single market, are trying hard to bury the country’s well-embedded “Made in China” image and embrace a new one: “Created in China.”
The huge Far Eastern country, which ran up a staggering $232.5 billion trade surplus with the United States in 2006, is reinvesting some of that capital back into America through several large purchasing agreements with software companies, as well as by helping to establish new IT research facilities here in the states.
China is also attempting to change its image from a cost-effective, product-producing nation to one that is more inventive and research-oriented. [Full text]