China Wants Silicon Valleys Everywhere

摘要

"Ignite the innovative drive of hundreds of millions of people." That's what China's Premier Li Keqiang called on all levels of government to do in a March address. With its industrial complex losing steam, the country must rely on innovation, especially of the digital kind, for new sources of growth. "You can see there are two Chinas. One is the old China that is slowing down in growth; there's a new China that is driven by the Internet," says Hans Tung, managing partner at GGV Capital, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park, Calif. "You know they need to grow the new China to offset the slowing down of the old China."