The core of Zhongguancun is not just a building and a street in a certain place.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “deeply” (ID: deep -echo), author Lu Wei, editor Ding Zhiren.
Zhongguancun has already broken through geographical limitations, and has expanded its technology industry development model to a larger scale in a corporatized manner.
Zhongguancun Software Park is a typical representative of the output and landing of Zhongguancun model.
The formation of Zhongguancun’s industrial core is inseparable from the original electronic street.
South of the North Fourth Ring Road, north of Haidian South Road, east of Suzhou Street and west of Zhongguancun Street, these four roads form a square block with a radius of about one kilometer. This is the famous Zhongguancun.
Zhongguancun Location (Baidu map)
Peking University and Zhongguancun are across the four rings, and a number of well-known universities such as Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, as well as several institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, are scattered around. The unique geographical advantage makes Zhongguancun a signpost in the development of China’s high-tech industry.
The Ideal International Building has witnessed the high-lights of Baidu’s listing, and witnessed the large number of users coming to the oo to return the deposit to the dark moment; Zhongguancun Venture Street experienced a boom in venture capital that swept the country around 2014, and the daily tour group during the peak period Constantly, it also experienced the loneliness and adjustment after the tide retreat; the office of the Dinghao Electronic City Innovation Workshop gave birth to the birth of the pea pods; the sea dragon E world C980 room accompanied the current travel giants through the initial difficult time .
Zhongguancun becomes China’s technology under the impetus of academic, industrial, capital, regulatory, talent and other factorsIndustrial highlands are already symbolic:
Coal bosses and other outsiders are looking for a new starting point for their careers. When a company grows to a certain size and considers a new location, Zhongguancun is still the first choice – the fun headline that just went public in 2018 will leave the Beijing office in Zhongguancun. Daheng Technology Building in the area.
Today, iQiyi still sticks to Zhongguancun; Microsoft, which owns two self-built buildings, is still stationed at Danling Street. However, compared with the earlier liveliness, Zhongguancun still showed some stagnation: In the second half of this year, with Tencent’s overall retreat from the Yinke Building, it moved to the new headquarters of the Beijing headquarters of Houchang Village, and there is one less Internet giant in Zhongguancun. .
In the Panzhongzhongcun area, Internet upstarts or big companies such as Meituan, Fasthand, and NetEase have moved away in recent years. Does this mean that the symbol that represents the most advanced development direction of China’s technology and Internet industry is fading or losing its appeal? Or, Zhongguancun has been evolving, but it has already exceeded the public’s past cognition?
Get out of Zhongguancun
In December 2018, in the Wudaokou Tsinghua Science and Technology Park, the family has been fast for three years, all the way north,” The family moved to the Xichangqi Village, 9 km away.
After half a year, Tencent has also started the relocation plan with the completion of the construction of Tencent Beijing Headquarters. Since June this year, Tencent has spent several months, and nearly 10,000 employees will be working in Zhongguancun in batches. Moved to the new office area in Houchang Village. Prior to this, NetEase and Sina had settled in Houchang Village.
Tencent Beijing headquarters building interior
Compared with Zhongguancun, which has a lot of shopping malls, dense food, and busy traffic, the Houchang Village outside the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing seems desolate and simple: the shopping malls are hard to find, the nursery is dotted, but this does not prevent the office buildings there from being affected. Chased. In the office buildings scattered on the south side of Houchangcun Road, the growing Internet companies are worrying about office space every day. The rapidly expanding team urgently needs to rent new venues, and there are a large number of companies waiting in the office building. Admission.
The big factories and newcomers have gradually moved in, and the companies that grew up here are getting bigger, which makes the name of “China Silicon Valley” fall to the head of Xichangqi Village – and once, this is Zhongguancun. Exclusive.
From Zhongguancun to Houchang Village, the migration path of the Internet giants has also guided the attention of the outside world.When the village loses the company that represents the highest level and the latest direction of China’s Internet development, does it still bear the title of “China Silicon Valley”?
In fact, the change in location does not mean that Internet companies have left Zhongguancun.
Standing at Zhongguancun from today’s time, the eyes can no longer be confined to the square area in the northwest corner of Beijing
In the process of rapid development of China’s science and technology industry, Zhongguancun is also evolving. Based on its own characteristics and advantages, Zhongguancun has already broken through geographical limitations and extended its representative technology industry development model to a larger scale in a corporatized operation. .
In other words, compared with the geographical sense, today’s Zhongguancun representatives are a new type of venture capital growth model and ecology.
The post-factory village where Tencent and other large factories are collectively located is actually the sphere of influence of Zhongguancun. It is collectively referred to as the “New Silicon Valley” in the Houchang Village area. The official name is Zhongguancun Software Park, which belongs to Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone. The new generation of information technology industry is a high-end specialized park, and the Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone is based on the establishment and development of the Zhongguancun model.
Zhongguancun Software park model diagram
According to the official data provided by Zhongguancun Software Park, as of the end of 2018:
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The campus has more than 600 well-known IT headquarters and global R&D centers,
As Lenovo
(global)
Headquarters, Baidu, Tencent
(Beijing)
Headquarters, Sina Headquarters, Didi Headquarters, AsiaInfo Technology, Science and Technology News
(Beijing)
Headquarters, Huasheng Tiancheng, Wensi Haihui, Beyondsoft, iSoftStone, Zhongke Dayang, Venus Star, China Nuclear Energy, Guanglianda, IBM, etc., the headquarters economy is more than 80%.
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A total of 77,900 software engineers work in the park.
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28 key software companies in the national planning layout, 7 multinational R&D headquarters,
Listed companies
(including branches)
67,
15 Chinese software top 100 enterprises,
71 companies with over 100 million incomes.
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The total output value of the park is 251.96 billion yuan.
The output value per square kilometer is 96.91 billion yuan.
The operator of Zhongguancun Software Park is Zhongguancun Software Park Development Co., Ltd., which is a typical representative of the output and landing of Zhongguancun model.
The rise of the electronic street in the 1980s was to promote Zhongguancun to become the frontier of China’s technological innovation highland. Driven by the electronic street, Zhongguancun gradually embarked on the road today. In the 1990s, in the face of rising entrepreneurial enthusiasm, crowded electronic stores, and gradually becoming famous in the international Zhongguancun, the desire of the regulatory authorities to replicate the Zhongguancun model became more urgent.
Under the multi-party push, Zhongguancun broke through geographical restrictions and carried out mode output, gradually building up today’s territory.
Who is at the command
Reviewing history, you can see the clear evolution of Zhongguancun.
As early as May 1988, the State Council formally approved the “Provisional Regulations for the Beijing New Technology Industry Development Pilot Area” and stipulated that
Taking the Zhongguancun area as the center, the area of 100 square kilometers in Haidian District of Beijing is the policy area of the Beijing New Technology Industry Development Experimental Zone.
This action was of great significance at the time, which means that the scientific research results have been supported by the policy level. At the same time, this is also the beginning of the export and landing of the Zhongguancun model. Since then, the extension of Zhongguancun has continued to expand:
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In April 1994, Fengtai Park and Changping Park were included in the experimental zone policy area; in January 1999, Electronic City and Yichang were included in the experimental zone policy area. The Beijing New Technology Industry Development and Experimental Zone has formed a spatial pattern of “one district and five parks”.
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August 1999,
The Management Committee of Beijing New Technology Industry Development Experimental Zone was renamed as Zhongguancun Science Park Management Committee, and Zhongguancun Management Committee was formally established. -
In 2006, the area of Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park was further expanded to 23,252.29 hectares, including Haidian Park, Fengtai Park, Changping Park and Desheng Park.(including the Summer Palace)
Electronic City (
Jianxiangyuan)
Manor
(including Tongzhou Opto-Mechatronics Park and Tongzhou Environmental Protection Park)
The Shijingshan Park and the Daxing Biomedical Industrial Base have formed a spatial pattern of “one district and ten parks”. -
In March 2009, the State Council made clear that the new positioning of Zhongguancun Science Park is a national independent innovation demonstration zone, with the goal of becoming a global innovation center.
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On October 13, 2012, the Zhongguancun National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zone was expanded from the original one district and ten districts to one district and sixteen districts. So far, the industrial map of Zhongguancun has taken shape, compared with Fangyuan. One square kilometer in the Zhongguancun area, this is the true strength of Zhongguancun today.
Zhongguancun is spread all over Beijing City
Zhongguancun Management Committee is the management party of the 16th Park in this district, responsible for the planning, operation and development of Zhongguancun Park. The performance of the Zhongguancun Management Committee can summarize the core of the Zhongguancun model:Introducing talent, introducing capital, and supporting technology.
For example, in the first three quarters of this year, the Zhongguancun Management Committee did the following work:
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Helping companies find money:
Tracking services for key enterprises with financing difficulties, holding more than 20 financing matchmaking meetings to serve key enterprises; -
Helping people find businesses:
Communicate strategic technology talents with key companies such as unicorns and some listed companies; -
Unearth new technologies:
Mining 69 leading-edge technology companies supporting artificial intelligence, etc.; - Collect a new batch of hard technology incubators.
These jobs seem to be very similar to VC’s post-investment management services, except that the size of the Zhongguancun Management Committee has been magnified several times compared to the usual venture capital institutions.
Looking at Zhongguancun from this perspective, it is even more understandable that the core of Zhongguancun today is to promote the development of the technology industry through a series of venture capital services, and is no longer limited to a certain place.Buildings and streets.
Although the extension of Zhongguancun has been greatly expanded, the formation of its industrial core is still inseparable from the small one square kilometer area.
Zhongguancun’s self-iteration
The rise of Zhongguancun is the perfect encounter between time, place and people.
Become “China’s Silicon Valley”, which is the clear positioning of Zhongguancun since its inception,
The positioning of the foundation of Zhongguancun was from the nuclear fusion experts of the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the first batch of Chen Chunxian who was promoted to be a researcher after the Cultural Revolution.
Chen has visited the Silicon Valley in the United States three times, where the amazing productivity brought about by the high synergy between technology and business has greatly stimulated him. After returning to China, he proposed the idea of studying the United States and starting a Silicon Valley company in China in a non-open environment.
Researchers start the company, It was almost impossible to achieve at the time. Fortunately, Chen Chunxian’s idea touched Zhao Qiuqiu, the head of the Beijing Science and Technology Association’s consulting department. With her help, on October 23, 1980, Chen Chunxian was the vice president of the Institute of Ionics, with Ji Shizhen, Cui Wendong and others. Leading more than a dozen academic backbones of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
China’s first private high-tech enterprise “Beijing Plasma Society Advanced Technology Development Service Department”,
The Beijing Science and Technology Association will approve the documents and funds, and then go to the Public Security Bureau to engrave the official seal and the bank to open an account.
The subsequent husband Zhou Hongshu of Zhao Yuqiu also played a key role. At that time, he served as the deputy director of the Xinhua News Agency Beijing Branch. He let Chen Chunxian’s “Silicon Valley Dream” succeeded to be seen by the central leadership, so Chen Chunxian was exempted from censorship and punishment. Under the impetus, the original form of Zhongguancun, the electronic street, was rapidly formed.
20 Zhongguancun Electronics Street in the 1980s
After Chen Chunxian and others, more researchers threw away the iron rice bowl and walked into the Zhongguancun Electronic Street. This included the establishment of the New Technology Development Corporation of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
(Lenovo predecessor)
Liu Chuanzhi.
The case of the successful transformation of the production, research and research results of universities such as Tsinghua University has made the concept of government begin to change. The policy began to be changed from opposition and controversy to support. After several central leaders successively issued “approval” to encourage scientific research results to go to market, Zhongguancun was officially approved as a pilot zone for Beijing new technology industry development in May 1988.
After becoming a pilot area, Zhongguancun has entered a new era of active policy promotion, scientific research and returnees, and high research and innovation enthusiasm.
During that period, Qiu Bojun developed WPS, UF was founded, Feng Jun founded the Patriot, Sitong Lifang and Huayuan Information established Sina, Zhang Chaoyang founded Sohu, Li Yanhong founded Baidu, and venture capital was also introduced to China through the returnees.
It’s not just researchers, college graduates, and returnees. The electronics market is crowded with people who buy accessories, computers, and systems. They stand behind the counters and stand back and work with their dreams. City peasants, ordinary people who are lonely.
As a huge container that accepts all active factors, Zhongguancun is chaotic and energetic at this time.
In 1999, Hailong Building officially opened.
Under the inspiration of the professional electronic store model, Zhongguancun gradually stepped out of the pattern of small electronic market.
Subsequently, Dinghao and Zhongguancun E World opened one after another, and a fight in the Zhongguancun electronic market began.
However, after nearly a decade of prosperity, by 2010, traditional electronic hypermarkets have gradually become obsolete due to their own mixed, chaotic, and e-commerce platforms. At the same time, the former “Beijing Cultural Landmarks” Haidian Book City is no longer glorious because the physical book industry has entered a difficult situation.
Even electronic hypermarket
In the face of difficulties, Zhongguancun chose to actively iterate.
The future of Silicon Valley in China
In the transition, Silicon Valley once again became the roadmap for Zhongguancun.
An old Zhongguancun said this, “Zhongguancun plays the role of incubator and trainer in China’s IT industry. This is the well-deserved China Silicon Valley.”
In this self-iteration, the emergence of Zhongguancun Venture Street is a landmark event.
201In June of the 4th, Zhongguancun Venture Street, which was transformed from Haidian Book City, opened. In the official introduction, the positioning of Chuangye Street is:
National dual-creation source;oriented by innovation and entrepreneurial needs;Promoting the integration and integration of government, large enterprises, capital, and innovative entrepreneurs.
Haijian Kechuang Technology Service Co., Ltd. is the operating company of Chuangye Street. In addition to taking on the adjustment of the block and the propaganda function, it also provides entrepreneurial services.
As the nation’s first gathering area featuring entrepreneurial services, a group of the world’s top venture capital institutions and entrepreneurs from around the world have poured in.
In just one year, there are more than 600 entrepreneurial teams in this 200-meter-long street, including 92 returnees. 350 teams have received a total of 1.75 billion yuan in financing, and the average financing amount is About 5 million yuan. 
