[Wogef]

>What Chinese can't do very well in your opinion ?

Would be a very long post, it depends in which cities, and which age groups (there is a huge cultural gap with far more risk-adverse older Chinese who grew up during the Cultural Revolution) and generalizations are always a bad idea.

That being said I’ll take a stab at it- usually Mainland Chinese are not so great at problem solving, but they are fantastic at making the solution better and cheaper (idea Iteration over Genesis). There’s the expression "别在孔子面前卖文章” roughly "Don't sell your essay in front of Confucius” akin to our "Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs”. Coming up with something new- or imagining you can carries a certain air of arrogance to it. This does not let itself to encouraging creativity. While this attitude has obviously led to accusations of China just cloning products, it’s also made many Chinese to be enthusiastic proponents of Open Source (although not contributors for the above reasons). So new solutions and creative problem solving will likely be something they rely on foreigners and overseas educated Chinese to do for some time.

Software, UI/UX, marketing and outsourcing are still comparatively weak. Nearly everything is C++, Java and PHP with only a tiny sprinkling of other languages. Programmers are held in fairly low esteem and not terribly well paid.

Service at one point was a weak point but in the past two years has started to pull ahead of the West significantly. Aliexpress is the tip of the spear as far as Chinese direct sales posing a threat to Western businesses and it’s service is not even close to what you can expect from Taobao.

[seanmcdirmid]

My wife is a Chinese UI/UX designer, and the circle of colleagues is small in a big city like Beijing. Programmers are in demand and many now know C# and even Scala; their pay has definitely gone up a lot in the last 5 years.