What makes Chinese people successful?

中国人为什么能成功？

以下是Quora网友的评论：

Mervyn Locke

Hard working

Out-of-this-world focus on education

Super quick at absorbing new technology

Appetite for risk

Insatiable curiosity

Unconstrained by religion and social class

Big population, meaning that they also have many incredibly smart people, statistically speaking

努力工作

对教育的重视程度全球居首

吸收新技术的速度非常快

不怕冒险

永不满足的好奇心

没有宗教和社会阶层的限制

人口众多，这意味着从统计学上讲，中国有很多非常聪明的人

Vicenzo Tsai

There are many different types of chinese people in the world and this answer is just a generalization to this question which might not be true.

世界上有许多中国人，我这个答案只是对这个问题做一般论述，可能不是很准确。

1. Materialism. Chinese people in general are very materialistic as wealthiness is very important in having a good social relationship between chinese people. The difference between social class is huge and being rich could guarantee one to have a high social status among the community.

1. 追求物质。中国人总体上是非常物质主义的，因为生活富足对于中国人搭建良好的社会关系而言非常重要。社会阶层之间差异很大，有钱人在社区中享有很高的社会地位。

2. Familial piety. Confucianism stressed the importance of family relationships between parents and children so in order to create a positive image for their family, one must always work hard especially in education in order to provide good results that could bring fame to one’s family. In chinese culture, to take care one’s retired parent is still significant.

2. 家族观念。儒家理念强调父母和孩子之间的家庭关系非常重要，所以为了给家族增光，人们必须努力上进，尤其是好好读书，拼个好成绩，给家族带来名气。在中国文化中，照顾退休的父母也很重要。

3. High education. For most chinese people, education is a must and most important in order to succeed in life especially in a foreign country. To conform to confucianist guides, education could improve one’s social status and family image among the community therefore chinese people will spend their time and money to study hard and get a professional job that has good income.

3. 重视教育。对于大多数中国人来说，想要过上好日子，尤其是在国外，教育是必不可少的，也是最重要的。依照儒家思想，教育可以提高一个人的社会地位和家庭形象，因此中国人会付出时间和金钱努力学习，找一份收入不错的专业工作。

4. Risk takers. Most overseas chinese had suffered a lot of hardship when they first emigrated from China as they need to face horrible corruption at home and unfair discrimination at their new settlement. To take big risk is a must for most of them as they had no other choice and they could not afford to return to their origins. - With good power comes great responsibilty - a quote from Spiderman.

4. 勇担风险。从中国移民到国外时，大多数华人都遭受过很多困难，因为他们需要面对新环境里的不公平歧视。对他们中的大多数人来说，风险再大也必须忍受，因为他们别无选择，他们不可能重回故乡。——能力越大，责任就越大——蜘蛛侠语录。

Wu Hao

The reason for success, of course, is America.

成功的原因当然是美国啦。

Let's go back to China and see that China was not even as good as India in the 1950s.

我们回过头看看中国，上世纪50年代中国连印度都不如。

India has a good political environment, and it is well known that China has been shunned by the Soviet union and the west.

Indians can buy most of what they want, while the Chinese face a lot of blockades.

It is the technical blockade that forces China to be independent.

As you can see, the Chinese army has endured 40 years of national unity to develop its economy. And our Indian friends are still buying their advanced weapons.

印度拥有良好的政治环境，而众所周知，中国长期受到苏联和西方国家的排斥。

印度人可以买到大部分他们想要的东西，而中国人遭遇了诸多封锁。

正是科技上的封锁逼迫中国独立自强。

正因如此，我们看到中国军队隐忍克制了40年，全国上下团结一心发展经济。而我们的印度朋友则继续采购先进武器。

When a large country like China to realize the industrialization, informationization, and has the world's most perfect industrial system, the world only to find that, oh, how China suddenly so powerful?

Is the answer obvious? If it is not a blockade, how can China be so patient and meticulous about its economic structure?

当中国这个庞大的国家实现了工业化、信息化，打造出全世界最为健全的工业体系的时候，世界才发现，咦，中国怎么一下子就变得这么强大了？

答案很明显不是么？如果没有惨遭封锁，中国怎么可能会如此忍耐、小心地耕耘本国的经济结构？

Xuance Wang

There’s an old saying remembered By Chinese:

“The fate of a person, of course, rely on self-struggle, but also take into account the process of the history. ” — By an elder

And there’s an other saying:

“Listen to the elders or suffer immediately.”

May be this is why Chinese so successful.

中国人有一句古话：

 “ 一个人的命运，当然要靠自己拼搏，但是也要考虑到历史的进程。”——长者

中国人还有一句古话：

 “不听老人言，吃亏在眼前。”

也许这就是中国人可以获得成功的原因。

Jiacheng Zhang

China: Business is business

Russia: Bribery is business

EU: Politics is business

US: Business is Bombs

India: Bullshit is business

If you just want to do a business, which one you would choose?

中国：生意就是生意

俄罗斯：生意就是行贿

欧盟：商业就是政治

美国：商业就是炸弹

印度：生意就是欺诈

如果你只想正经做点生意，你会选择哪一个国家？

Zhang luoli

That must be Chinese culture. The answers above refer to a large population, an executive government, a U.S. block.so Why didn't India, which also has 1.3 billion people, succeed? Why didn't socialist north Korea succeed? Why didn't Cuba, which was also blocked by the United States, succeed ?Look at Israel, the wonder of the Middle East, someone says his success is from intelligence. the others say he is technologically advanced. Similarly, I think Israel success is from their culture, a strong sense of nationality. the shame makes courage and make effects although little success.This is the impact of Chinese culture on the economy over several decades. Look at the countries in Chinese cultural circle, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore which country is the poor ?Apart from the fact that Vietnam did not get the best development opportunities due to the war, but i think Vietnam will again dominate southeast Asia in the future

那肯定是因为中国文化啊。前面有人提到了中国有庞大的人口，执行力很强的政府，还遭受了美国的封锁……

那同样有着13亿人口的印度为什么没能成功，同样采用社 会主义的朝鲜为什么没能成功，同样被美国封锁的古巴为什么没能成功……

看看以色列这个中东奇迹，有人说以色列的成功是因为智商高，有人说是因为科技发达……

我觉得以色列的成功也同样是因为文化，因为一种浓烈的民族意识。

知耻而后勇，厚积而薄发。这就是中国文化在几十年间对经济产生的影响。

看看同属汉文化圈的国家，韩国、日本、马来西亚、新加坡，哪一个混得差了？

除了越南，因为战争的原因没能抓住最好的发展机会，但是我相信越南未来也能称霸东南亚。

Anonymous

Genetics: East Asians, including the Chinese, are the most intelligent people on the planet. Well, a specific subset of Jews are likely quite a bit smarter, but that’s a specially selected and very small group.

基因：东亚人，包括中国人在内，是地球上最聪明的人群。好吧，有一小部分犹太人可能更聪明，但那是天选的小群体。

Politics: The politics of extant Chinese civilizations tend to be on the whole pragmatic and concerned more about the greater good than the quirks of the individual. This means that there tends to be quite a bit of support.

政治：现存的中国文明的政治整体上偏向实用主义，更关心大局利益。这意味着政府能获得较大的支持。

Hunger: Due to both culture and recent history, many Chinese are very, very hungry for economic and educational success.

渴望：因为文化背景和近代历史，许多中国人非常非常渴望经济和教育上的成功。

Population: When you take all of the above and multiply that by 1.4 billion - and that’s if we’re considering only the Chinese in China - you have a very large number of smart and driven people in a system that rewards hard work and strongly encourages delay of gratification.

人口：如果你把以上所有的数字乘以14亿——只考虑中国境内的中国人——你就会发现，在一个鼓励勤奋、鼓励延迟满足的制度中，能培养出大量聪明、奋发努力的人。

Ann Lu

poverty！

There is an old saying in China.

Children raised by the poor shoud be able to raise their family as soon as possible.

and there is a popular saying online recently.

贫穷！

中国有句老话。

穷人的孩子早当家。

It's the poverty that kills my imagination.

when trying to build correlation between above two sentences, we feel some pity for poor Chinese children. They can only keep studying and trying to be better to prove themselves.

贫穷限制了我的想象。

在我们试图理解上面这两句话之间的联系时，我们对可怜的中国孩子深表同情。他们只能拼命学习，不断进步，才能证明自己。

Aremanbek Nur

Hard work and good policies.

Forgive my bad English. If I have mistakes in answer just point it out. Take my father as an example. He was a veteran and become a founder of his corporation. He told me that policies are getting better and better. Turnover has increased 3 times in one year and still has space. Besides this , he told me that He kept up early for more than 20 years.His employees have rigorous timetable. Make a small target than step by step to get big target.

勤奋努力和好的政策。

我的英语不好，大家请见谅。

如果我的回答有不对的地方，欢迎指正。

我想以我父亲为例。他是一名退伍军人，创立了自己的公司。

他告诉我，国家政策越来越好了。

公司营业额在一年内增长了3倍，而且还有进一步发展的空间。

除此之外，他跟我说他20年来都坚持早起。

他的员工也要遵守严格的工作时间。

制定一个小目标，脚踏实地慢慢来，就能成功实现大目标。

Sylvia Worden

Just from my observation from many years working in higher education in the U.S. (where there are many Chinese students)—one of the things that makes Chinese people successful is a strong cultural value and respect for education. Do you want your own kids to be successful? Show them that their education is the most important priority in your family.

以我在美国高校(学校里有很多中国学生)工作多年的观察来看，中国人成功的原因之一是强烈的文化价值观和对教育的尊重。你希望自己的孩子获得成功吗？让他们明白，教育是你们家庭中最重要的事。

Chin Chye

Ask every casinos and they will tell you that Chinese simply loves to gamble.

And Chinese love to do business too.

China rose rapidly economically because the chinese are willing to take high risk, willing to sweat and toil under the sun for their businesses.

如果跟每家赌场打听，他们会告诉你中国人很爱赌博。

中国人也喜欢做生意。

中国经济迅速崛起是因为中国人愿意承担高风险，愿意为他们的企业辛劳付出。

Chinese cultures encourage their children to excel in schools. At home, strict discipline is enforced. In provision shops, they sell cane too and parents will go to these shops to buy cane to cane their children if they failed in school or they misbehave.

And so, China rose rapidly when given the right environment, and in this case, I say China was lucky to be governed by the Chinese Co unist Party which so happen to be a uncorrupted govt that strife to built the country.

The only way to stop China's rise is to create chaos in the country and that's exactly what the United States government trying their best to do.

中国文化鼓励孩子们在学校里力争上游。家长在家中会执行严格的管教。商店里还出售藤条，父母会去商店购买藤条，如果孩子在学校表现不佳，就会挨一顿藤条的鞭打。

所以，有了合适的环境，中国就迅速崛起，我认为中国有了爱民如子的党，是非常幸运的事。中国是一个廉洁的政府，一心一意建设国家。

阻挠中国崛起的唯一方法就是在这个国家制造骚乱，这正是美国政府的最大企图。

Lalit Patel

Diligent at work

Sharp at seeing

Listen to the boss (Not everyone trying to be the king)

Cleanliness (Less slums)

Love for education

Huge infrastructure for manufacturing

Open to trading since Nixon (China should not forget the role of USA in its recent prosperity.)

工作勤奋

很有眼力

听老板的话(不是每个人都想当国王)

干净（贫民窟较少）

崇尚教育

促进制造业发展的庞大基础设施

尼克松时期中国开始开放贸易，中国不能忘记美国在其现代繁荣中所起的积极作用

Ambudj

Among Chinese values, honesty (or Tin Shin in Vietnamese) is one of the main Confucian values. Trust means you won't betray your business partner, you promise to pay him next month, you do it, he trusts you to do it. Because of this, Chinese companies are very successful.

Chinese people also value interpersonal relationships and treat close people in a fair way. This is another principle of Confucianism. This enables them to build strong personal connections for business networks. The concept of personal relationships is very strong, and if someone helps you a little bit, you have an obligation to appreciate them, never forget that help, and also do as much as you can in return.

在中国人的价值观中，诚实守信(或越南语中的“诚信”)是儒家的主要价值观之一。信任意味着你不会背叛你的商业伙伴，你答应下个月付账，你做到了，他相信你会做到。正因为如此，中国企业大获成功。

中国人也很重视人际关系，善待亲朋好友。这是儒家的另一个原则。他们因此能够为商业网络建立强大的人际关系。人际关系的概念非常强烈，如果有人帮了你一点小忙，你就必须心怀感激，永远不能忘记他们的恩德，也要尽可能回报他们。