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  Zhongguancun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is geographically situated in the northwestern part of Beijing city, in a band between the northwestern 3rd Ring Road and the northwestern 4th Ring Road.
The first person of Zhongguancun is Chen Chunxian, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), who came up with the idea for a Silicon Valley in China after he visited the U.S. as part of a government-sponsored trip.
Zhongguancun was officially recognized by the central government of China in 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zhongguancun   (545 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Zhongguancun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Zhongguancun's importance as a new engine of growth for China's economy is compared to that of southern China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in the 1980s and Shanghai's Pudong Development Area in the 1990s.
Zhongguancun missed its historic chance once, when 10 years ago the central government gave its official blessing to the creation there of China's first high-tech garden.
Zhongguancun, located in the northern area of Beijing where a number of prestigious Chinese universities gather, is a high-tech development park home to companies from home and abroad, such as Microsoft, Beijing Peking University Founder Group CO. and Tsinghua Unisplenduer Co.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zhongguancun   (1318 words)

  
 Welcome to e21times, the comprehensive e-commerce info site.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Zhongguancun is not as famous as Silicon Valley, and might not be comparable to the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park in Taiwan.
Zhongguancun is one of the earliest industry zones in China that has enjoyed government support in the form of special tax incentives and development policies, which made possible the fast growth of China’s early IT players, such as the Stone Group and the Legend Group.
And the Beijing municipal legislative body is drafting a law for the Zhongguancun Zone to regulate the booming high-tech industry, according to local media reports in early November.
english1.e21times.com /asp/fd.asp?r=881   (627 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Zhongguancun a name resounding through the "global village"
Zhongguancun, a small village rarely known years ago, is building its resounding name throughout the "global village".
Zhongguancun, in northwest Beijing, used to be a small potato rarely known by the rest of the world beyond the land.
Since then Zhongguancun took off as the street for electronics and then thrived to be the pilot park for the hi-tech industry in the capital city.
english.peopledaily.com.cn /200507/29/eng20050729_199145.html   (686 words)

  
 News & Views - Zhongguancun, New Rising 'Culture Mecca': Newsweek (8/29/2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Zhongguancun is by its most frenetic IT revolution experiencing the speediest growth as home to China's IT industry and education of higher learning in Beijing.
Zhongguancun had its development begun with the reform and opening up drive being carried out by the 2080s when experiments with a market economy started.
Though some young entrepreneurs are under pressure from a shortage of funds yet most of them still hold dear to the belief that they would stay in the place to fulfill their targeted dreams.
www.chinahouston.org /news/2002829070454.html   (295 words)

  
 Backgrounds China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The initiative was taken by the Beijing government to encourage both the return of overseas Chinese students and scholars as well as the development of private enterprise in the hi-tech sector in Beijing, especially in the Zhongguancun area.
Zhongguancun, in the northwest of the city in between Beijing's most prestigious universities and institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is China's self-proclaimed answer to America's Silicon Valley (thus foreign observers tend to call it Silicon Alley).
However, for many participants in Beijing's Science Parks, the financial advantages and opportunities to reduce costs seem to out shadow the academic or research aspects, a situation that is further promoted by the commercial interest that the parent-organisations have in the profit of these new companies.
www.nuffic.nl /positionering/epos/0202/china/backgrounds/backchina8.html   (442 words)

  
 Beijing Students Forge a Silicon Valley
Zhongguancun, in the Haidian district of northwest Beijing, is home to a fledgling Internet industry and better-known Chinese computer and telecommunications companies like Legend Computer Systems, Founder Computer Systems and Huawei Technology.
For the young founders of Beijing East, however, Zhongguancun is the perfect incubator.
During the summer, the laboratory, which occupies a single floor of a new office building in the Zhongguancun zone, plays host to 180 student interns who are developing software programs for Microsoft.
www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2000/08/17/029-print.html   (1078 words)

  
 Zhongguancun 中关村
Of course, Zhongguancun is not the countryside, which is the new "darling" of Western media reports on China.
In this vein, I propose that Zhongguancun be known in English as "China Valley" to attest to both its China origin and its purported affinity with Silicon Valley, California.
Zhongguancun Science City is located along the development axis of the Zhongguancun Science and Technology Zone.
chinasilicon.blogspot.com   (3757 words)

  
 Zhongguancun, China's Silicon Valley
The average age of the several hundred thousands of employees in Zhongguancun is about 30; and the area of Zhongguancun is popularly known as the Silicon Valley of China.
The mottoes of the Zhongguancun Garden, including "Encouraging pioneering work and accepting failure" and "Relying on science, technology, and knowledge to increase economic power", have inspired many people to start their own businesses.
The Zhongguancun Scientific and Technological Garden is also the birthplace of the filmsetting technology of Chinese characters, the chip for Super Computers, the E-business website, and the standards of international communications information in China.
www.china.org.cn /english/travel/51023.htm   (822 words)

  
 Can China build its own Silicon Valley?
“Zhongguancun” doesn’t roll off the Western tongue easily, but it will soon be an address that technology investors must learn.
The Zhongguancun district is in the dusty northeast corner of Beijing not far from the old Chinese emperors’ Summer Palace.
But now, in the heart of Zhongguancun, sleek new buildings are rising around prestigious Tsinghua University, creating what will be a world-class technology incubator.
www.infowars.com /articles/world/china_build_own_silicon_valley.htm   (1261 words)

  
 Silicon Valley's Primal Spirit Lives, in a Part of Beijing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Zhongguancun, in the Haidian district in northwest Beijing, is home to a fledgling Internet industry as well as better-known Chinese computer and telecommunications companies like Legend Computer Systems, Founder Computer Systems and Huawei Technology.
One of the first American companies to realize that the spirit of the Zhongguancun Internet boom was a resource to be exploited was Microsoft.
In summer, the laboratory, which occupies a single floor of a new office building in the Zhongguancun zone, plays host to 180 student interns who are developing software programs for Microsoft.
www.bebeyond.com /KeepCurrent/Recommended/ChinaSilicon.htm   (1375 words)

  
 Dear NACSA members and friends,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
NACSA and Zhongguancun Science Center cordially invite you to join us in a dinner reception for a Beijing delegation led by Mr.
Zhongguancun has been synonymous with China’s high-tech pioneers and scientific institutions.
The Beijing delegation consists of Beijing municipal officials, Zhongguancun administrators, and high-tech company and VC firm executives.
www.nacsa.com /events/Apr272002.htm   (315 words)

  
 Corporate News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Government officials from the Beijing municipal government, China Ministry of Science and Technology, Zhongguancun Science Park and other agencies attended the ceremony together with Karen Guo, corporate vice president of AMD, and president and general manager of AMD (China), Co. Ltd.
Zhongguancun Science Park is becoming known as China's Silicon Valley - renowned for its advanced technology, tightly-knit structure and commitment to innovation.
In 1988 when Zhongguancun Science Park was founded, there were only 11 foreign-invested high-tech enterprises occupying only 2% of the total in the park.
www.amd.com /sg-en/Corporate/AboutAMD/0,,51_52_1991~85329,00.html   (918 words)

  
 China's tech parks fertile ground for IP
China's reputation as a casual protector of foreign companies' IP is a sensitive topic that cuts to the heart of that country's ambitions to foster the development of its creative industries and promote technological innovation at home.
With government support at the federal and municipal levels, such tech centers as the Zhongguancun Science Park, Shanghai Zhangjiang Science Park and Tianjin Economic Development Area are focused on a laundry list of strategic core technologies in optics, wireless communications, telecommunications, media technology and medical electronics and biotechnology, in addition to nanotech.
Zhongguancun — a vast district that runs west to east along Beijing's northern Ring Road — is China's information-technology hub.
www.us.design-reuse.com /news/news11263.html   (1520 words)

  
 Assessment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Becuase, Zhongguancun does not have any internationally competitive hi-tech product; the rate of technology transfer in Zhongguancun is less than 10 percent without important impact on the economic development; none of the enterprises in Zhongguancun stands at the forefrount of the global high-tech industry.
Administration Commission of Zhongguancun Science Park, a local government office, was built in 1988 to improve infrastructure, establish rule of law, encourage financial channels and entrepreneurs.
The paper will presents the current situation of Zhongguancun Science Park by analyzing data in economic development and human capital; evaluate the role of industries, universities and government in development of Zhongguancun by studying the economic reform and institutional reform; summarize the experience and deficiency of Zhongguancun Science Park.
www.cherry.gatech.edu /trp/xabstracts.htm   (2014 words)

  
 Javelin Technology
This new company is the first foreign-owned investment consulting company in the Zhongguancun Science Park and is licensed to promote and develop venture capital and private equity investment in China's electronics and high technology industries.
Haidian District is located in the northwestern quadrant of Beijing Municipality and includes the largest concentration of universities and research institutes in China, along with a number of well-known cultural artifacts, such as the Summer Palace.
The Zhongguancun Haidian Science Park in Beijing is a major high-technology development initiative.
www.javelininvestments.com /technology.html   (399 words)

  
 Zhongguancun Park Helps Firms Raise Funds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Zhongguancun Science Park, one of China's pioneering high-tech zones, is striving to help small and medium-sized companies raise funds from the overseas market.
Dai Wei, deputy director of the administrative committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, said the government would join with overseas investment and intermediate institutions to provide consulting, designing and agent services for small and medium-sized high-tech enterprises in the park.
Sources from the administrative committee say that the Zhongguancun Science Park Investment and Fund-raising Promotion Center is at present busy preparing a schedule and it is expected to be launched by the end of the year.
www.yonghegong.com /english/BAT/102764.htm   (335 words)

  
 News & Events - A Liaison Office Set up by Zhongguancun in American Silicon Valley(07/6/2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sources say that the office has built up a tie between Zhongguancun and the Silicon Valley, providing a foundation for the cooperation of the two places.
Liu Zhihua, vice mayor of Beijing Municipality said that the office is aiming at making Zhongguancun known abroad, getting in touch with overseas scholars and experts and providing services for the development of Zhongguancun, thereby attracting more high-quality talents to take part in the construction of Zhongguancun.
This year, Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park has as reported focused its attention on taking in talents as its main work.
www.chinahouston.org /news/2000705175848.html   (176 words)

  
 Hotspot Zhongguancun   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
History/Background: Zhongguancun Science Park, the first of its kind in China, was founded by the Chinese national government in 1986.
Zhongguancun Life Science Park was established in 2000 by Beijing Municipal Government as an addition to the Zhongguancun Science Park, with an emphasis on biotechnology and life sciences.
Center of Excellence: Haidian District, where the Zhongguancun Science Park is located, is the center of higher education and research in China.
www.globalbiobusiness.org /hotspot/Bejing.htm   (456 words)

  
 Software Changing China -- Zsoft Outsourcing Summit Held in Beijing
Zhongguancun Software Association (Zsoft) provided an Offshore Business Service Platform in this summit to help any enterprise and organization outside China invest their resources wisely, to help establish their businesses in China with a single contact.
Yu Bin said that although there were more than 5,000 software enterprises in Zhongguancun, the shortfall of talents in the area of outsourcing software to Japan was up to more than 5,000, which was less than that in the area of outsourcing software to the US, with less than a 10% supply rate.
They organized the visit of Zhongguancun's excellent software outsourcing enterprises for the colleges, and arranged a dialogue between the Zhongguancun software outsourcing enterprises and the students joining the training associated with colleges.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-22-2005/0004238574&EDATE=   (1146 words)

  
 SINA.com English Technology News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lu Kequn, a Beijing Securities Co. executive, said that Zhongguancun would need the investment of approximately 200 billion renminbi (US$24.2 billion) over the next 10 years to be successful, reported the Yangcheng Wanbao (Yangcheng Evening News) on Oct. 9.
Zhongguancun is the place where many Chinese Internet start-ups have set up operation.
So far, among the companies registered in Zhongguancun, only 11 companies have been listed on mainland China's stock markets and two on the Hong Kong stock market.
www.sina.com /news/tech/2000/1013/tech_1.html   (249 words)

  
 Chief Executive, The: China's change merchants: A new breed of CEO emerging in China is wiring the nation—and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Zhongguancun, China's Silicon Valley, is as different from California's as imaginable.
Beginning at Third Ring Road, Zhongguancun heads north along Haidian Lu, the main street, lined with offices and showrooms of hardware companies such as Apple, Compaq and Legend, the number-one personal computer-maker in China.
In Zhongguancun, you can't miss the euphoria--and the vertigo.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m4070/is_2002_March/ai_84072912   (1323 words)

  
 Glut of "High-End" Office Buildings in Zhongguancun :: China Digital Times (CDT) ...
Zhongguancun (中关村) suffers from a glut of "high-end" office buildings, according to a Sohu.com article.
Yet the Zhongguancun business community is still comprised primarily of medium and small-sized high-tech firms.
The article provides support to concerns that development of Zhongguancun is being driven more by real estate speculation than the needs of technological innovation.
chinadigitaltimes.net /2004/10/questioning_bei.php   (539 words)

  
 Beijing's High-Tech Boomtown: Expanding at Home - and in the Silicon Valley - Site Selection Online Insider
The Zhongguancun Technology Zone is part of the Shangdi Information Industry Base (www.strong.com.cn), the Beijing area targeted for high-tech industry.
The Zhongguancun expansion will cover 20 acres (50 hectares), said Liao Guohua, president of the Beijing Strong High-Tech Development Co., which handles the zone's development and management.
The Zhongguancun area's success is part of China's track record in creating SEZ boomtowns.
www.conway.com /ssinsider/snapshot/sf000904.htm   (595 words)

  
 Zhongguancun Pay Survey (tdctrade.com)
According to sources from the Beijing municipal bureau of statistics, the latest human resources survey at the Zhongguancun Science Park indicates that the per capita annual salary of hi-tech professionals last year reached Rmb61,900, which was at least three times higher than those in traditional sectors.
The breakdown was Rmb20,888 million for local employees, Rmb358 million for expatriates and employees from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and Rmb2,763 million for staff seconded from their original work units.
Packages such as these are good incentives to entice more outstanding employees to perform their best, which in turn boosts the development of the park.
www.tdctrade.com /alert/cba-e0306g-3.htm   (162 words)

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