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Venture parks expanded
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Wu Yan
WITH more and more Chinese students studying abroad returning home to start a career, particularly in the high-tech field, the city is making more room to attract and accommodate them, it was announced at a meeting chaired by Li Decheng, vice-mayor of SZ, on Monday.
Li led a group to the United States in April to recruit Chinese students studying there. He says attendance at the job fairs they held across the United States, including Silicon Valley, far surpassed their expectations. “For each fair, we expected 200 to 300 attendants, but ended up with more than 3,000,” said Li.
SZ now has a high-tech venture park specially for returned students. Some 2,100sqm in size and located in the south part of the Shenzhen Hi-Tech Industrial Park (SHIP), it is already full, with 23 enterprises. Another area as large as 27,800sqm for returned students is being built and expected to be completed at the end of this month in Longgang District. But it is already almost fully-booked, with demand far exceeding supply.
Therefore, the Monday meeting mapped out plans to erect two more eight-storey buildings, with the working name “start-up buildings”, in the SHIP for students returning from overseas. Li Decheng asked for design work to be started as soon as possible with construction finishing next year. “When more students come to SZ during the high-tech fair in October, we want to show them that we are making the buildings for them,” Li said.
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