Asian miracle

Four Asian Tigers
A map showing the Four Asian Tigers Hong Kong (China)  Singapore  South Korea Taiwan
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	亞洲四小龍
Simplified Chinese	亚洲四小龙
Literal meaning	Asia's Four Little Dragons
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Yàzhōu sì xiǎo lóng Wade–Giles Yachou szu hsiao lung Tongyong Pinyin Yàjhōu sìh siǎo lóng Yale Romanization Yàzhōu sz̀ syǎu lúng Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization aa jāu sei síu lòhng Jyutping aa3 zau1 sei3 siu2 lung4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ A-chiu Sì-sió-lêng
Korean name
Hangul	아시아의 네 마리 용
Hanja	아시아의 네 마리 龍
Literal meaning	Asia's four dragons
Transcriptions Revised Romanization asia ui ne mari yong McCune–Reischauer asia ŭi ne mari yong

The Four Asian Tigers or Four Asian Dragons, are the wealthy high-tech industrialized developed countries of Taiwan,Singapore, Hong Kong (China) and South Korea which underwent rapid industrialization, technological innovation and development and also maintained exceptionally high growth rates (in excess of 7-8 percent a year) between the mid-1950s and early 1990s. These four countries invested heavily in their infrastructure as well as in developing the intellectual abilities of their human talent, fostering and retaining their educated population to help further develop and improve their respective countries. This policy turned out to be so effective that by the late 20th century, all four countries had developed into advanced and high-income industrialized developed countries, developing many different areas of advanced technology that give them a tremendous competitive advantage in the world. For example, all four countries have become top level global education centers with Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong (China) high school students consistently outperforming all other countries in the world and achieving the highest top scores on international math and science exams such as the PISA exam and with Taiwan students winning multiple gold medals every year consistently at the International Biology Olympiad, International Linguistics Olympiad,International Physics Olympiad, International Earth Science Olympiad, International Mathematical Olympiad and International Chemistry Olympiad.