Dan Wang’s excellent new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future goes into detail about the rise of China over the past several decades and how China can learn from the United States and the United States can learn from China.
Some surprising statistics cited in the book: From 2003 to 2013, Shanghai added as much subway track as the entire system in New York City; China now has a longer high-speed rail network than the rest of the world combined; and the 4.4 billion tons of cement that China produced from 2018-2019 nearly equals the amount of cement the United States produced over the entire twentieth century. He also talks about the dark side of China, for example it is estimated that the one-child policy resulted in as many abortions as the current United States population.
Worth a read.