John Plummer, senior portfolio editor at Springer Nature, said the pace of technological development in China is great and he thinks the Chinese government has done very well in tackling the challenge of balancing technological development with raising the living standard for the average person in the past forty years.

He said Springer Nature, as a science publishing company having a presence in China, has been benefited a lot from China's opening-up.

"The opening up of China has allowed us to really report to the world the great research that has been done in China. The pace of developments of scientific output from China is really phenomenal in terms of both the amounts of research, but more importantly, especially for a company like us, the quality of research," Plummer said.