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8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers

Posted by timothy on from the making-trains-run-on-time dept.

kkleiner writes "Did you know that the president of China is a scientist? President Hu Jintao was trained as a hydraulic engineer. Likewise his Premier, Wen Jiabao, is a geomechanical engineer. In fact, 8 out of China's top 9 government officials are scientists or engineers."

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  1. Re:political SCIENCE by dwarfsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    And here I thought you were about to say that Lawyers are far more likely than biologists to become rats. Actually, that's about right too.

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