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Getting sticky fingers out of the sci-tech cookie jar

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Corruption is hampering China's efforts to achieve technological self-reliance.

That's according to the National Audit Office’s (NAO) 2022 annual audit report on central government spending, released on Monday.

The report revealed that sci-tech funding is still plagued by corruption and mismanagem...