How far is the distance to catch up with Silicon Valley in Zhongguancun?

Zhongguancun and Silicon Valley, two in the Pacific Ocean East and west, there is no direct relationship between the region, in the electronics industry and the information industry matchmaking, by people to do the frequency of comparison is more and more high. Zhongguancun is a symbol, is regarded as China and even the Oriental High-tech Industry Innovation Center, surrounded by Tsinghua University, Peking University and Renmin University, the birth of Lenovo, Baidu, Beijing East, 360, Millet and other influential global High-tech structure of the company; Silicon Valley is the engine of High-tech industry development, It stretches around the valley of Santa Clara, California, and brings together one-third of the nation's venture capital, and relies on Stanford, Berkeley and Caltech to nurture the prestigious tech bowls of HP, Trent, Oracle, Apple, Google, Facebook and Twitter. There is not much secret between Zhongguancun and Silicon Valley. In the past more than 30 years, in the electronics industry, software industry, communications industry to upgrade the internet industry, they have been the same. Although 10,000 kilometers apart, the flight takes 11 hours, but the new technology allows the two regions to almost break free from the shackles of time and space, tightly tied together. In comparison, Silicon Valley is more like an engine, where you can smell cutting-edge technology and future trends; Zhongguancun is the place where it can be applied to a variety of commercial areas. In the past and now, whenever there are new changes in Silicon Valley, the elite of Zhongguancun are always the first to observe, imitate, copy, and create new opportunities. Nowadays, the distance between Zhongguancun and Silicon Valley is shrinking in the new era of internet devouring all. In the new application and business model innovation, Zhongguancun has even surpassed the Silicon Valley. People ask: Can Zhongguancun replace Silicon Valley as the New World Science and Technology Center? The secrets of Silicon Valley drove south from San Francisco, with thousands of of technology companies scattered around Silicon Valley. Asked why Silicon Valley was so successful, Apple co-founder Steve Vauze said: "Silicon Valley is really a vague definition ... The story of Silicon Valley is a natural occurrence, where people live, work, and organically form such a place. As Watts says, Silicon Valley is not a product of government will. Although in the early stages of formation, Silicon Valley's driving force and U.S. military research and development, but from military to civilian, from the government-driven to market-driven, in the process of Silicon Valley expansion, talent, technology, capital and other factors are not overnight, but after a long market adjustment and environmental adaptation eventually formed. Jeremy Bielensen is a professor of virtual reality at Stanford University, and his lab is one of the most avid places for tech giants to go. April 2014, Facebook's Young CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a 2.3 billion dollar takeover of virtual reality technology company Oculus Rift. "It all happened after he visited my lab," said Jeremy Bielensen, a consultant for Zuckerberg, that Stanford's research on virtual reality technology can inspire and help business companies. Jeremy BielensenTold reporters, he also received from Google, Sony, as well as China's Baidu, Huawei, Tencent and other enterprises visitors. In a Stanford lab, reporters saw dozens of research projects, including tactile perception and neural control, methodically underway. This is just the tip of the Silicon Valley academic and industrial union. In addition to virtual reality, academia, including Stanford University, plays an indispensable role in the frontiers of biotechnology, large data, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, and robotics. In the past more than 10 years, there are many projects that bring great business success from the laboratory really sprout. Silicon Valley's renowned university professors are often also active in academia and the scientific community, some of whom offer consultancy and technical support to commercial companies, and some even operate outside their own companies. Another reason for Silicon Valley's success is the complete venture capital mechanism. On the sand road known as VC Street (Sand Hill M.I.), there is a gathering of hundreds of famous venture capital institutions. A local Chinese investor told NetEase Technology: "In recent years, Silicon Valley's money is hotter than before, and investment is easy, and investors here are anxious to wake up every day: because the money in hand needs to be thrown out as soon as possible." In fact, as long as you have a good idea, it's not difficult to get the money. "Venture capitalists are active, reducing the cost of trial and error for entrepreneurs. "In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship doesn't require much determination. If your personal qualifications and your product really have a chance, you don't have to risk your own house or assets, there will be a lot of investors lined up to send you money. Said the investor. The prosperity of Silicon Valley also benefits from the flourishing of entrepreneurial culture. "In Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship is an interesting thing, the idea comes from your heart's love and passion, not for a company," Steve Vauze said at a Silicon Valley forum in Baidu. "Silicon Valley is a gathering of the world's finest scientists and engineers, probably from China and India," he said. Driven by these elites, Silicon Valley has led the PC age, the software age, the age of communication and the Internet, and the emergence of young entrepreneurs, represented by Zuckerberg, will continue to prosper. The "Electronic Street" in the 80 's was originated from the Middle Guan village of the pursuers. At that time, PC-dominated consumer electronics from Silicon Valley converged and distributed, contributing to the rapid popularization of electronics and information industries in China. Of course, this also for Zhongguancun buried the "cottage" gene. Today, the electronic street business has been abandoned by the times, the transformation of "pioneering a street" to catch up with Silicon Valley has become a new vision of Zhongguancun. The advantage of Zhongguancun is that China has more than 1.3 billion people and about 650 million Internet users, which can be seen as a fertile soil for entrepreneurs. In fact, in Lenovo, Baidu, Beijing East, 360, millet and other enterprises under the leadership of Zhongguancun from the Silicon Valley is increasingly small distance. Steve Branco, a professor at the US business School, named Steve Blank, said: "All over the world, I have seen the accumulation of startups. But Beijing is a shock to me. They built an ecosystem that eclipsed Boston and Seattle. Beijing has squeezed its 30-year accumulation of startups into 5 years. However, although the size and speed of the development of shocking, but Zhongguancun representative of "Chinese-style innovation" has been criticized. Most of China's Internet products can be found in the United States prototype. China's three major internet companies, Baidu to mark Google, Alibaba initially imitation of ebay started, Tencent has been saddled with the infamy of ICQ. Even more so, when new products emerge in the United States, Chinese entrepreneurs always launch the Shanzhai version at the first time. Last year, after America's anonymous social software secret swept the App store, there were more than 10 copycat teams in China that took the fastest half a month to complete the Android and iOS versions. In an interview with reporters, a secret copycat once lamented that "the competition is too fast" because his development team worked overtime, but spent more than a week on his competitors. And then it turns out that the fastest team in the cottage is the easiest to succeed. Take group buying for example, after Groupon appeared in the United States, China's imitation of Groupon's company once reached 6,500, but today only the United States to represent several companies to survive. One of the main reasons for Zhongguancun's keen Shanzhai is that the Chinese market is too big, and copying the American model is often the lowest cost, the least risky and the most effective way to start a business. And the U.S. market is very small, Google, Facebook, Apple-like big companies can only go overseas to gain greater growth space. Companies that are smaller, less capable and needed to internationalize can only seek new development opportunities through autonomous updating and iterative technology. Therefore, Silicon Valley is stronger than technology innovation, Zhongguancun is stronger than business model innovation. When Silicon Valley enthusiasts talk about artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, virtual reality, and so on that could change the future fortunes and business patterns of the human race, Zhongguancun entrepreneurs gather to talk about connections, markets, resources, and Silicon Valley's newest offerings. This brings the innovation problem for Zhongguancun, because the cottage not only occurs between Zhongguancun and Silicon Valley, but also exists between the big companies and small companies in Zhongguancun. For a long time, China's internet environment used "who to innovate who perish" to describe is not too much, big companies have been happy to use their own resources cottage and beat the rapid growth of small companies. Such unreasonable competition mode does not have corresponding laws and regulations to regulate. For an industry that is growing too fast for the internet, the pace of regulation and legislation has slowed. Fortunately, the market finally played a role. We see that in the last two years, compared to the past Shanzhai style, large companies have realized that investment and acquisition is more economical and effective way of competing. China's internet industry has created three big bat factions. Today, Baidu, Ali, Tencent's overlapping business more and more, the competition between them is increasinglyFierce。 But these companies must understand that market share is just the immediate benefit. If an enterprise or an industry wants to be prosperous, it must turn itself into the engine of the world, and must attach importance to creative creativity, intellectual property and frontier technology. Zhongguancun is a microcosm of China's science and technology industry. It has been impressive in size and speed, but there is still a long way to go to replace Silicon Valley as an innovation hub. How to strengthen the combination of research and production, how to encourage the development and exploration of cutting-edge technology, how to let the market play the role of resource allocation, reduce ineffective competition and internal friction, the eyes on the world, is the continuous running of zhongguancun people need to think about.