Returnee Entrepreneurship in Zhongguancun

Author: Xia Yingqi
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Since the reform and opening-up, hundreds of thousands of students from China have embarked on their journeys overseas. They carry the national mission of revitalizing China, reading thousands of books, and traveling thousands of miles. They diligently study in renowned universities abroad, overcoming hardships and achieving success. As humanity enters the 21st century, the Chinese nation is in the accelerated phase of peaceful rise and great rejuvenation. The achievements of reform and opening-up have inspired countless overseas students, and the call of the nation and the country urges the descendants of the Yellow River scattered across the world. Batch after batch of Chinese sons and daughters, from North America, Europe, Japan, and every corner of the world, filled with patriotism, entrepreneurial ambitions, and a desire to give back, have landed on this land they hold dear, finding their stage in Zhongguancun and achieving remarkable careers. They seized favorable market and policy opportunities, grew rapidly, and took off on the wave of success, becoming legendary entrepreneurs in Zhongguancun. Today, Zhongguancun has become synonymous with knowledge creation, dissemination, and application, a brand for China's high-tech industry, a highlight of Beijing, and a pride of the nation. It is filled with dreams and hope, opportunities and challenges. The 2,200 high-tech enterprises established by over 5,000 overseas returnees have added a highly educated and high-quality cross-ocean R&D force to Zhongguancun, making it an important carrier for the marketization and internationalization of Zhongguancun. This has created a tripartite structure of private enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises, and returnee enterprises, composing a symphony of returnee entrepreneurship in Zhongguancun. This book documents some of the returnee enterprises in Zhongguancun and their representative figures, revealing their overseas study experiences, international journeys, reflections on returning home, and the hardships of entrepreneurship. It also allows readers to witness their career development and share their joys of success. After all, this is the vitality and youth of a great nation flourishing in a great era. Recording these pulses and notes of the times will inspire and motivate more overseas students to join Zhongguancun, creating a greater wave of entrepreneurship and contributing to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.