[HDMI_Cable]

This seems to underlie their problem: if they're only supporting SciFi (and probably other creative outlets) as a means to an end, as a means to encourage innovation, they're doing it wrong. Asimov didn't write because he foresaw all of the tech entrepreneurs who would read his work, he wrote because he wanted to, and because the society where he wrote supported him—and promoted artistic works (though of course there is perverse incentive for art here in the West, in the form of monetary incentive for artists). If China only supports SciFi to innovate, they won't produce good enough works to innovate.

[emodendroket]

Historically many or even most great works of work have been "compromised" by similar things, whether it's the politics of some King's court or flattering a rich patron or simply dealing with the vagaries of the market.

[3np]

Why the CCP supports SciFi is can be detached from motivations of individual authors.

[xhevahir]

Something tells me the Party's support or funding of an author's work could have a lot to do with the author's ideology (or the perception thereof).

[swayvil]

Not only must the work be ideologically correct, the work must also be understandable by ruling ideologues.

That is a serious choke point.

The ideologue brain is incompatible with big weird scifi ideas.

We see that in the west too.