S4 hspspecial WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2010 DAILY Zhongguancun to expand innovative capacity

By ZHANG ZHAO emerging industries such as cloud two new high-tech clusters. e computing, aerospace engineer- northernmost industries, based With more than 1 million ing, network integration and wind in Haidian and Changping dis- 101 talented employees and nearly and nuclear power. tricts, will emphasize innovation Fortune 500 20,000 enterprises, Zhongguan- Sinovel Wind Group has devel- and financial services. cun is one of China’s largest and oped China’s most powerful off- A Zhongguancun science town companies most important high-tech bases. shore wind turbine, while Baidu will be located near Zhichun and have set up research and Around 101 Fortune 500 Inc has made great progress in Xueyuan roads in Haidian. It will development centers in Zhongguancun. companies have set up research cloud computing. cover 75 sq km, transforming sci- and development centers in the VinnoTech Inc has developed ence and technology to products area, along with several inno- a wireless transmitting system and profit, said officials. vative Chinese corporations based on networked connec- Industries to the south, based including , Founder, and tions between everyday objects. in Tongzhou and Daxing districts, 25 Baidu.com. It has also acquired international will focus on bio-pharmaceuticals, percent e electronics, new materials, standards. new materials and environmental of all “863 program” projects, bio-pharmaceuticals, and aero- A number of new products protection. part of a national long-term space industries all call Zhong- and technologies have already Currently, Zhongguancun scientific research and guancun home. been put to use at the Olympic has 152 listed companies with a development plan, have already Last April, central government Games, on China’s manned space total market value of more than 1 been initiated. officials announced plans to build flight, Qinghai-Tibet railway and trillion yuan. Around 30 of those a Zhongguancun national innova- nuclear power stations. ey have businesses have market values in tion model park. also aided sustainable energy and excess of 10 billion yuan. Already, Zhongguancun com- disaster prevention efforts. Of China’s 90 companies listed 110,000 panies are carrying out 25 percent e torches used in the in the Growth Enterprise Market patents of all 863 program projects, part Olympics borrowed technology (GEM), more than 20 are based in have been filed by of a national long-term scientific developed by Haiying Group. e Zhongguancun. Zhongguancun enterprises. research and development plan. giant LED displays on Tiananmen Financial institutions includ- Businesses in the area have won Square during the 2009 National ing the Bank of Beijing and the the National Prize for Progress in Day parade were from Leyard. Bank of Communication offer Science and Technology more Sinovac Biotech created the more than 30 billion yuan in than 50 times. world’s first SARS vaccine in financial funding to businesses Nearly 110,000 patents have 2004. Xinwei Telecom Technol- in the zone. 80 been filed by Zhongguancun ogy provided McWiLL wireless Zhongguancun now has a billion yuan enterprises, with more than 590 broadband systems and emer- reformed business administra- in contracts were signed during national standards and 30 inter- gency communication trucks tion system, complete with 43 the first six months of this year. nationally recognized standards for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake new registration, trade mark and including TD-SCDMA, McWiLL relief work. credit system policies. Further, and IGRS. Pulead Technology Industry’s the administrative examination Over the past year, government high-performance lithium-ion and approval system of the park has been paying more attention to battery is helping reduce emis- was simplified. sions, and home-made CPUs Now, with a “special zone, spe- from Technology have cial policies, and special mecha- been put in use for national secu- nisms,” said officials, China can rity service. attract more talented people. ey Zhongguancun companies expect new recruits to boost the signed contracts worth more nation’s number of self-developed than 80 billion yuan in the first high-tech products. six months of this year, up 76.8 , chairman of percent from the same period Lenovo, and Li Yanhong, CEO of 2009. of Baidu, are among 40 Zhong- Almost 42 billion yuan came guancun workers identified by from investors outside Beijing, the “1,000-talent scheme.” while 29 billion yuan came from A nationwide plan launched abroad, nearly tripling last year’s in 2008, the scheme prom- figure. ises top salaries and attrac- PHOTOS PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY tive funding to elites who are The Zhongguancun Financial Corridor, running from Wanquanhe Road to Xueyuan Road, Building capital working overseas and willing spans four km. Beijing o�cials expect the financial sector in Zhongguancun will rival its The Zhongguancun Square Zhongguancun will build to come or return to China. technology industry in terms of profit.