Zhongguancun has now become the largest gathering area for science and technology in China, and is comparable to first-class high-tech areas such as Silicon Valley in the world.
In the past, this place was called "Zhongguan Village". Zhongguan means eunuch. When the eunuch gets old, he has nowhere to go. No one wants him when he returns to his hometown, and he cannot enter the family tree. After leaving the palace, he is very confused. Pitiful.
Some big eunuchs with some money raised money to buy some cheap land next to the villages in the suburbs, built some houses, and let the homeless old eunuchs wait for death here.
More people gathered and formed a village. Everyone naturally called this place "Zhongguan Village", which is a village of old eunuchs.
After the liberation, for more than five years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences chose this place. I don’t know why they chose this place. After the Chinese Academy of Sciences came, I suddenly felt that the name did not sound good. During the discussion, the teacher The president of the university suggested that the leaders rename this place "Zhongguancun".
Zhongguancun has developed simultaneously with the Republic of China. Over the past 70 years, it has become China’s innovation highland. With the reform and opening up, Zhongguancun has become my country’s first new technology industry development pilot zone and the first national independent Innovation demonstration area.
In 1980, the Advanced Technology Development Service Department of the Beijing Plasma Society was established, which was the prototype of the first private technology company in the country.
Chen Chunxian’s young doctoral supervisor, then the director of the first office of the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, became the first person in Zhongguan Village’s private science and technology field.
In 1990, the 9.9-meter-high "DNA Gene Double Helix of Life" urban sculpture was completed on the roundabout in the center of Huangzhuang.
On the base is written, "Life is dedicated to the pioneers of new technologies", 10 words.
Now there are 16 gardens in Zhongguancun, and every district and county in Beijing has put up the "Zhongguancun" brand and enjoys the same preferential policies.
There are more than 20,000 high-tech enterprises in Zhongguancun, more than 300 listed companies, and unicorn companies account for half of the country.
Zhongguancun has become the largest village in the world.