The United States attaches importance to the process of knowledge generation and the ability of flexible application, thinking and practical operation, encourages discovery and innovation, pays attention to divergent thinking, and pays attention to expansion and practical application;

China paid attention to the law and experience of knowledge's final formation, applied the existing law and experience rigidly, and formed a mode of thinking, sticking to conventions, not seeking innovation, paying attention to concentrated thinking, and not paying attention to expansion and practical application.