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0 pointsonethought5y ago0 comments

I’m guessing you haven’t been to Shenzhen. Where everything you mentioned is, and growing.

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throwaway20375y ago

> Proximity to a delta of good universities

What good unis are in Guangdong (GD) province? The most famous ones I know are in Shanghai and Beijing. From my limited experience with hiring in Shenzhen, almost no one was from GD, nor went to uni in GD. Most went to uni in Shanghai or Beijing.

> The foundational organizations

I think the OP is referring to big gov't research (DARPA, etc.) that is the backbone of technologies behind the Internet and integrated circuits. Do similar orgs (and history) exist in Shenzhen? Again, my impression is that most of those orgs exist in Shanghai and Beijing.

onethoughtOP5y ago

DARPA was based in Virginia... so not sure what SV history you are referring to.

Yes Guangdong is the technology zone for China, it receives both state funding, state run incubators and special economic status.

But in essence they have both highly skilled hardware engineers and software engineers which is like SV of old. Where as current day SV is dominated by software, where they ship the manufacture of things to Shenzhen or Taiwan.

As far as universities, you have Sun Yat Sen University in GZ one of the top tier universities in China. And yes a whole lot of internal migration from the north to the south. Shenzhen growing from 70k to 10mil in 40 years is an insane population movement

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