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The highest concentration of talent and education resources in China
Night View of Zhongguancun Work & Leisure be a pilot demonstration zone with emerging industries of strategic importance , institutional innovations and commercialization of scientific and technological discoveries .
Science and Technology Future Town The Science and Technology Future Town focuses on environmental protection and applied science and technology , and develops its infrastructure and ecological environment to high standards . The town promotes the innovative “ Resource Cluster Development of State-Owned Companies ” and seeks to attract overseas innovators to provide a R & D platform for science and technology innovations . The town is designed to be an internationally influential base for technical innovations and commercialization of large-scale business groups .
Northern Development Belt for R & D Services and High and Newtech Industries The Northern Development Belt for R & D Services and High and New-tech Industries includes the plain area in Haidian district and the southern part of Changping district . The belt boosts R & D and information services and facilitates the commercialization of high and new-tech achievements . The belt aims to build an industrial cluster featuring sound ecological environment , industrial clustering , intensive land use , supporting facilities and urban-rural integration .
Southern Development Belt for High-tech Manufacturing and Emerging Strategic Industries The Southern Development Belt for High-tech Manufacturing and Emerging Strategic Industries comprises the city ’ s southern industrial space resources of the Yizhuang and Daxing region . The belt also expands the scope of the Beijing Economy and Technology Development Area .
It accelerates management system reform , drives the development of the Fangshan High-end Manufacturing Base and high-tech manufacturing industries such as electronics , information , biomedicine , equipment manufacturing , new energy and new materials . The belt is designed as a development area for key technology manufacturing and international cooperation .
Why Zhongguancun Science Park Advantageous resources The Zhongguancun Science Park is one of the regions that has the
highest concentration of talents and educational resources in China and even in the world . The educational resources in the park include :
As many as 40 higher educational institutions are located in the park , including Peking University and Tsinghua University .
As many as 206 national and provincial research institutions are in the park .
Members of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering working in the park account for 36 percent of the nation ’ s total .
By August of 2011 , there are 418 talented working staff members involved in the nation ’ s “ One Thousand Talents Program ” in Beijing , of which Zhongguancun has 80 percent .
There are more than 15,000 overseas returnees in Zhungguancun , who have established more than 6,000 enterprises in the park .
Zhongguancun has become the region with the most enterprises founded by overseas returnees in China .
FDI eyes on Zhongguancun
Zhongguancun has attracted more and more entrepreneurial investments .
There are 84 companies listed at overseas stock exchanges , accounting for one third of all listed companies in the Zhongguancun Science Park .
The number of companies listed on NASDAQ in the park accounts for one third of the national total .
One forth of the nation ’ s companies that have been listed on the New York Stock Exchange are based in Zhongguancun .
Companies in the park have become the indicators of Chinese companies ’ competitiveness in overseas markets .
International companies based in Zhongguancun
Almost 200 branches and R & D centers of the world ’ s Top 500 companies have set their offices in the Zhongguancun Science Park .
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