India must shed its cultural inertia and craft new stories of entrepreneurship to compete globally, said Big Bazaar founder Kishore Biyani on a recent podcast, drawing sharp contrasts with China’s long-term planning and tech-driven transformation.<\/p>\n
Biyani, in a podcast hosted by Think School, said China \u201cplans for 100 years\u201d and has \u201cdestroyed its past\u201d to reimagine its future, investing heavily in education, design, and deep tech.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey produce 85,000 designers and 250,000 engineers every year with high quality,\u201d he noted, praising China’s deliberate pivot to a design-led, innovation-based economy.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Biyani argued that India remains culturally tethered to its past, with traditions and mythology shaping how families educate children. \u201cOur parents want to teach us what they believe was right, and we pass on the same stories. These stories are not about growth or entrepreneurship,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Biyani urged a narrative shift. \u201cWe need new stories\u2014stories of entrepreneurship, growth, and development,\u201d he said, identifying podcasts as a modern tool to drive this change.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He pointed to China\u2019s development model\u2014specialized cities, efficient supply chains, and deep logistics networks\u2014as a roadmap for India. \u201cThe UP government has taken some steps to build cities for category-specific products,\u201d he said, but emphasized that much more needs to be done to match China\u2019s pace.<\/p>\n
India has built highways and infrastructure, he acknowledged, but now the focus must shift to the next phase: empowering entrepreneurs. \u201cIt\u2019s all about entrepreneurship. How new entrepreneurs will come in and develop this country,\u201d Biyani concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"India must shed its cultural inertia and craft new stories of entrepreneurship to compete globally, said Big Bazaar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3094],"tags":[51,1395,67722,3134,730,67723,67721,67724,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-160764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-china-growth","11":"tag-entrepreneurship","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-india-growth","14":"tag-india-vs-china","15":"tag-kishore-biyani","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114631910354886862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}