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The average ratio of new enterprises and total enterprises in national high-tech zones was 20.1 percent in 2015, a rise of 2.5 percent. The proportion of total new enterprises occupied by new technological development and service enterprises increased by 1.4 percent over the previous year.
Chart IV Comparison of patents in representative national high-tech zones and Silicon Valley.
Over 40 percent of high-tech researchers, investment and enterprises gathered around national high-tech zones in recent years. The research investment intensity and researcher density was 2.7 times and 14.6 times higher than the national level.
The ratio of employees with bachelor degrees in representative national high-tech zones like Shenzhen, Xi’an and Zhongguancun was 1.0 percent higher than the Silicon Valley level. The report indicates that the largest ratio of foreign to domestic staff in the Suzhou high-tech zone was only 3.4 percent, but for the United States, California and Silicon Valley those figures were 13.3%, 27.1% and 37.4%. This indication shows that a lack of international employees limits the development of the national high-tech zones.
