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> One area where China clearly has an advantage is massive investment in time and budget and respect for education and scholarship that pervades its culture, from individual, family, friends, up to the highest level of society.

China is a very big term, with 30+ provinces and vastly different cultures, attitudes towards education can be completely different in many places. As an example, Henan province has more than 100 million people, such population size is bigger than any EU member state. Sadly it doesn't have any half decent university and it actually fought damn hard back in the late 60s to prevent one of the very best Chinese universities (USTC) from being relocated to its capital city.

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Would you say the majority of Chinese people value formal education more so than people from most other cultures though?

This may stem from the Imperial Examination which has its origins in 605 CE. (I am not a historian, so please correct me if you have better information/evidence.)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination

From my observation, the focus on and respect for education seem true for most of East Asia as well as their diasporas.