> In order to get a Ph.D., you have to do some sort of original research,
China has now introduced "practical PhDs" where you have to build some practical machine instead.
> In order to get a Ph.D., you have to do some sort of original research,
China has now introduced "practical PhDs" where you have to build some practical machine instead.
That is exclusive to engineering PhDs, entirely irrelevant to the discussion of math PhDs.