HOW CHINA BUILDS ITS MERITOCRACY.

This is how China picks its top leaders - it is a genuine meritocracy. Most British politicians wouldn't even begin to qualify. There is a long tradition of advance by education in China going back thousands of years - and the vast majority of people accept it. 

'The Greatest Talent Sieve on Earth

Next week China’s smartest 3.4 million university graduates, average IQ 114, will take the three-day guokao, the national civil service exam, competing for 39,700 jobs. Their IQ puts them in the top 15–20 % of the entire population and among them 40,000 have genius level IQs above 140. At the extreme right end of the curve, 650 of them will have super-genius 160 IQs, compared to just 220 such age mates in the US and EU combined.

A Permanent Elite Drawn from the Extreme Right Tail

The 39,700 who pass do not simply get a job; they enter a decades-long performance tournament. Their careers are tracked, the best are relentlessly promoted, the rest are sidelined. By their forties, the top percentile will govern provinces larger than France or Spain; by their fifties, some will reach the Politburo. China is systematically identifying the highest-IQ, most productive fraction of 1.4 billion people, stress-testing them under conditions of extraordinary competition and giving them real, long-term power. The best and brightest from the demographic that built Huawei, CATL and the HSR are funneled directly into the bureaucracy.



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