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ZHONGGUANCUN

(Reading)

What do you know about Zhongguancun?

What does the statue look like?What does is stand for?

Lead-in

Fast-reading

Go over the text and find the answers to the following questions in 3 minutes.

Where is Zhongguancun located?

2. When did the science centre get started? When was it set up as a special economic zone?

3. Today, how many hi-tech companies are there in Zhongguancun?

Careful-reading

Read the text carefully and then choose the correct answers to the questions on page 4. There maybe more than one correct answers.

1. ABC

2. D

3. C D

4. B

5. BCD

Structure of the text

Try to find out the main idea of each part of the text.

Part 1(Para1-para2)

Part 2 (Para3-para7)

Part 3 (Para8-para9)

General introduction of Zhongguancun

Why zhongguancun can attract more overseas Chinese.

The positive effect zhongguancun has had on both business and science &the spirit of zhongguancun.

Summary

Fill in the blanks with information from the text.

Zhongguancun is the new centre for Chinese ___ and ___. It got started in the early 1980s and was set up as __ __ __ __ in the late 1990s. It soon became the leader of China’s ___ ___.

The scientific and hi-tech companies in the area all have their own ___, but they share the spirit of ___ and ___ ___ that have made Zhongguancun a success.

Zhongguancun is also home to ___ ___ who have grasped the opportunity to ___ ___ ___ at home.

Zhongguancun has ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ on business and science. Here are two mottos which can show the spirit there. One is “____ ___ science, technology and knowledge to increase ___ ___, the other is “Encouraging ___ ___ and accepting ____.

Key to Summary

Zhongguancun is the new centre for Chinese _____ and _________. It got started in the early 1980s and was set up as ___ ______ ________ _____ in the late 1990s. It soon became the leader of China’s ______ _______.

science

technology

The scientific and hi-tech companies in the area all have their own __________, but they share the spirit of _______ and ______ ____ that have made Zhongguancun a success.

characteristics

creativity

scientific

skill

Zhongguancun is also home to _______ _______ who have grasped the opportunity to ________ _____ ____ at home.

Zhongguancun has ____ ___ ______ ______ ___ business and science. Here are two mottos which can show the spirit there. One is “______ _____ science, technology and knowledge to increase _______ ______, the other is “Encouraging ________ _______ and accepting _______.

failure

Discussion

Why did so many scientific and hi-tech companies move to Zhongguancun to develop their business?

Zhongguancun is called the China’s Silicon Valley,do you know why?How much do you know about Silicon Valley in the US? Ok, let’s read something about it.

?A Brief History of

Silicon Valley

Further-reading

1 Where is the Silicon Valley?

2 What was it in the past?

3 When was the industrial park built?and why?

4 When the “Silicon valley” was first used?

5 Why it was called “Silicon Valley”?

Questions

The name "Silicon Valley" derives from the heart of the computer, the semi-conductor with a silicon chip brain. The area, approximately 35 miles southeast of San Francisco, measures 25 miles long and 10 miles wide. In the 1950's it was a fruit producing agricultural region. Today these same fruit trees can be found alongside some of the world's top companies in the area of information technology. Other companies, no less important, are the start-up entrepreneurial companies creating products and services on the leading edge of information technology.

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In the 1950's an industrial park was built on land leased from Stanford University. The university had plenty of land - over 8000 acres - and money was needed to finance the university's rapid post-war growth. The goal was to create a center of high technology close to Stanford University. Leases were limited to high tech companies that might be beneficial to Stanford .The first company to occupy the park was Varian Associates in 1953 followed soon after by companies such as Lockheed, Eastman Kodak, General Electric and Hewlett Packard.

Stanford University is one of the leading universities in the U.S.A., if not in the entire world. Beginning in the 1930's, graduates of Stanford's engineering programs were encouraged to work for local companies and start companies of their own rather than returning to their home states.

Two of these students were William Hewlett and David Packard, whose design of the audio-oscillator launched the company Hewlett Packard which is now a multi-billion dollar global company manufacturing a wide range of computer and medical imaging products.

New Silicon Valley companies are springing up everyday to take advantage of the convergence of computers and communications, especially in Internet products, technologies and services. Some of these companies grow out of the phenomena of executives leaving larger corporations and forming small companies of their own. The name "Silicon Valley" was first coined by the electronics writer, Don Hoeffler in 1982.

Discussion

Now discuss in group of four and try to find out what the similarities and differences between Zhongguancun and Silicon Valley are .