From Newsweek.com (link): I don’t know what I expected. Maybe a white room with a waiting area where I could sip tea while someone serviced my ThinkPad. What I didn’t expect was a small apartment reminiscent of my freshman dorm filled with chain-smoking Chinese men. The tables were strewn with a Frankenstein’s workshop worth of […]
Zhongguancun (‰∏≠ÂÖ≥Êùë) suffers from a glut of “high-end” office buildings, according to a Sohu.com article. Starting in 2001, a period of rapid construction in this high-tech zone resulted in glass and steel edifices “popping up like mushrooms.” These buildings have been marketed to large, multi-national corporations. Yet the Zhongguancun business community is still comprised primarily […]
Microsoft Program Manager Frank Yu argues that Beijing’s Haidian District (ʵ∑Ê∑ÄÂå∫), which includes the Zhongguancun (‰∏≠ÂÖ≥Êùë) technology zone, provides a glimpse of China’s high-tech future. According to Yu, innovations in Haidian demonstrate that China is “set to lead the world” in developing mobile devices and applications. One Zhongguancun company with aspirations to become a world […]
Zhongguancun (‰∏≠ÂÖ≥Êùë), the so-called “Silicon Valley of China” located in northwest Beijing, is slated to become a “world center of R&D” within ten years. This new goal was announced at the 7th annual Zhongguancun Computer Festival (ÁîµËÑëËäÇ). At the same time, however, new questions are being raised about the viability of the Zhongguancun model. In […]
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