oh yeah with 1 billion of them betterment of human ailment is right up there on priority list
Well, the world isn't perfect. Even US Pharmaceuticals are driven by the bottom line. Bring China into the system by encouraging pharmaceuticals to open facilities there, and their R&D labor can be used with the purpose of finding cure to human ailments.
Much of the world's research is done through trial and error. In medicine, trying out substances one at a time on lab rats.
Thomas Edison found that tungsten worked in a lightbulb because he tried thousands of other material. One of his quotes, before discovering the right material, is that he now "knows what doesn't work". Research is mostly mundane and unexciting, hence the "perspiration". Why not let the Chinese add their numbers to the global work force of researchers and expetite research.