Beijing's Haidian district is of course known for its many good universities mixed in with high-tech companies, but now it has its eyes fixed on something seemingly different - finance. It aims to build itself into a tech-financial innovation hub.
Well, perhaps not so strange. In the first half of this year, 111 more companies involved in finance moved to Haidian, bringing the total number to 1,740.
This is one of the questions that's been asked at the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) 2011 World Conference, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
An impressive number of delegates from several dozen countries gathered in Copenhagen with the shared aim of developing such "roadmaps for navigating the future" and to discuss new ways to secure growth for cities, regions, and countries in the global knowledge economy, with special focus on the role of STPs.
China is getting a new technology transfer center this October - the first it has cooperated with a foreign partner, in fact - at the high-tech Zhongguancun Haidian innovation zone, in Beijing, where it will connect science parks with high-tech companies.
'We felt as if we were the real owners of the park'One high-tech information-security provider that was established in 2006 is getting a lot of intellectual support from the Haidian Science Park (HSP), which has given it a very high rate of annual growth.
HSP nurtures companies that care and make a differenceEven though the administrative committee of the Zhongguancun Haidian Science Park (HSP) is actually a government organization, it does not quite act like one, according to the head of a local company - it's more service-oriented.