Everybody copies at first, then they start making state of the art improvements. It takes time though, Toyota was founded in 1937, they started by reverse engi

Everybody copies at first, then they start making state of the art improvements. It takes time though, Toyota was founded in 1937, they started by reverse engineering Chrystler cars (they were surprisingly open about this in the Toyota museum). Chinese companies got started maybe around the 1980s with market reforms.