Through working hard over the next 15 years, we want Hefei to be the Silicon Valley of China.
More turnover among the Kleiner Perkins China team has founding managing partner Tina Ju leaving as one of two anchors of the preeminent firm that ventured from Silicon Valley to China in 2007.
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Though Mr. Ma has high hopes for China, he sees Silicon Valley as the center of global innovation.
And it happened not in Silicon Valley but in China.
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Spurred on by seeing his friends and colleagues venture over to China and succeed, Silicon Valley tech executive Elliott Ng found he could not resist the lure to go eastward.
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While the trend in China is increasingly toward local entrepreneurs funded by local venture investors, Deng says that about 70 percent of the startups in China are founded by Silicon Valley returnees with western education and degrees.
Barghoorn focussed on Australia, Cloud on Death Valley, others on China and Brazil, trailing graduate students behind them.
Mortenson claims that he has educated over 60, 000 of young children and mostly girls and built over 170 schools in Karakoram -the north west of Pakistan and the Wakhan valley of Afghanistan near the Russia and China border during the last 17 years.
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Mr Sha, the company's best manager, who ran a rubber-parts factory in the mountains of Anhui province in central China, secretly set up a rival plant down the valley which he financed by siphoning money from the Asimco joint venture.
Silicon Valley will remain the global tech hub followed by China though innovation centers in clusters around the world will matter more.
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More than 10 years ago, before the Internet bubble popped in 2000, Silicon Valley venture capitalists and technology professionals all looked to China as the goal of any leading Internet company.
Padlocks have since sprouted from the Great Wall in China to the Brooklyn Bridge to the fence of a freeway overpass in Silicon Valley.
He spoke of his joy at his success at Lee Valley, and how failing to qualify for the 2008 Olympics in China had spurred him on.
So many Chinese expats have returned in the past few years that Valley-slang has given them a special name, B2C (back to China).
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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.
James Liang returned home to China in 1997 after six years in the U.S. as a university student and Silicon Valley techie.
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.
Talking at Pine Valley, a vast Nicklaus-designed 45-hole course outside of Beijing, Nicklaus believes that China will be home to future champions as well as millions of recreational players.
Ng, who is now an Asia-based managing director of Silicon Valley's Granite Global Ventures, says the venture capital firm expects to invest more money in China in the next few years.
It is run from Cambridge, but marketing is based in Silicon Valley, much of the software is developed in India and manufacturing is done in Dresden as well as China.
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