James Liang returned home to China in 1997 after six years in the U.S. as a university student and Silicon Valley techie.

FORBES: Home, Sweet Home

In Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, tens of thousands of young engineers have created a Silicon Valley-like youth culture in the high-tech companies that thrive in China's southern Guangdong province.

ECONOMIST: A survey of the young

When Silicon Valley s inventors want to make something new, they re less likely to head to China than to a clutch of small buildings surrounding Flextronics offices in Milpitas, California, where ideas become tangible goods.

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