[pipio21]

I had worked as an European engineer in China. I worked European hours and days.

IMHO the secret of success of China, if there is one(China is way poorer than EU or USA), is accepting capitalism after centuries of stagnation with systems that worked very bad for most people(worked for Emperors, communist dictators and people in power thought).

To say that working 996 is the secret to success is just manipulation of the wsj, which does not surprise me coming from this newspaper.

Not accepting patents in practice like US did with England could be the secret of China industry advancing very fast but working too much is not.

Chinese spend a long time in work, they even sleep there but the energy they have most of the time is very low precisely because of that. European system is far superior.