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5/17/2015 @ 11:54上午 16,776 views
Move Over, Hong Kong, Shenzhen Now China's Best City ForBusiness
Shenzhen passed Hong Kong to in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 2014 rankings. Hong Kong had held the top spot ever since its first inclusion in the survey a decade ago. Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, switched places, rising from No. 2 last year.
The survey of 294 cities, contained in CASS’s Blue Book on Urban Competitiveness, was released Thursday in Beijing.
The Shenzhen skyline (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)
The Pearl River Delta dominated the rankings with, in addition to Shenzhen and Hong Kong, Guangzhou at No. 5 and Macau at No. 9.
Shanghai remained third from the 2013 survey. Beijing fell two notches, landing in eighth place.
Hong Kong lost its leader-of-the-pack position largely because it did not support innovation. Its Census and Statistics Department reported that in 2013, the last year for which figures are available, the city’s public and private sectors and its educational institutions spent an amount equal to % of its gross domestic product on research and development for innovation and technology. Shenzhen, on the other hand, devoted % of its GDP last year to such areas.
Why the heavy emphasis on innovation Perhaps because Chinese Premier , with his much-publicized unveiled in early March, has placed his hopes on new businesses to revive the country’s economy. His concept is that Beijing can invest in innovation, and CASS has evidently adopted the theme.
Hong Kong, on the other hand, has its noninterventionist philosophy and refrained, for the most part, from picking winners and losers. In any survey conducted by a Beijing-based organization, Hong Kong is bound to lose out to cities implementing activist policies favored by the country’s leaders.
For decades, Hong Kong has worried about losing out to Singapore, run by world-class interventionists. Now, its concern focuses on next-door Shenzhen. After all, Hong Kong could have been the home of DJI Technology.
DJI—the initials stand for —was founded by mainland-born , who graduated from Hong Kong’s University of Science and Technology in 2006. He had after not getting support. That year he founded DJI, which now has 70% of the global market for civilian drones.
Frank Wang is the world’s first drone billionaire. (Photo: David Hartung for Forbes)
Fast Company magazine DJI 22nd on its 2015 list of the world’s most
innovative companies. Frank Wang’s business is estimated to be worth about $8 billion, and many see it going to $10 billion after further rounds of funding.
Now, it seems every Chinese drone-maker has flocked to Shenzhen. There are about a hundred companies chasing DJI, and around 80% of them are located in that city.
Like the tiny one started by John Ma and two friends. They pooled savings; moved to Shenzhen in July; and built 70 drones, which they offered for sale on Alibaba Group’s Taobao platform for 468 yuan apiece.
Why Shenzhen “It’s easy to find hardware factories to turn your idea into products, no matter if you only have just a few thousand yuan or just order one unit,” Ma the South China Morning Post. Start-ups like Ma’s need the cheap manufacturing space Shenzhen offers as well as its existing supply chains.
Yet Shenzhen has much more than an industrial infrastructure. There are in the northern part of that city rusting industrial buildings where young businesses have replaced old-line manufacturers, where thousands of John Mas have set up shop to become Frank Wangs.
No wonder Shenzhen now leads China as its most competitive city. Li Chao, who worked on the CASS survey, said Shenzhen’s “product output per land area is the highest in the country.”
Of course, Shenzhen’s productivity is helped by hosting Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. That’s better known as Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics and the maker of products for Apple and other consumer products companies. Foxconn’s Longhua facility, by
some measures the largest factory on the planet, is just down the road from dingy buildings hosting some of the world’s smallest—and soon to be recognized as most innovative—companies.
Shenzhen’s role as incubator to tomorrow’s businesses is presumably safe as long as Beijing does not meddle too much. The Pearl River Delta has just been recognized by the World Bank as the world’s largest metropolitan area by size and population, passing Tokyo.
Beijing, however, is thinking bigger still. There have been central government plans to of about 50 million people. Planning should coordinate transportation infrastructure—helping competitiveness—but could also bring adverse side effects, the downside of central technocrats trying to do too much.
It is no coincidence that four of China’s most competitive cities are in the Delta. Two of them, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, are in freewheeling Guangdong province, far from the seat of Communist Party power in Beijing. The two others, Hong Kong and Macau, are adjacent to Guangdong. With an anything-goes mentality in the Delta, almost anything can happen there. After all, a nine-year-old Shenzhen start-up has just captured most of a global market.
There are undoubtedly more DJIs in those hulking buildings in Shenzhen. We just don’t know their names yet.
5/07/2015 @ 1:12下午 16,012 views
大疆科技DJI汪韬
