““Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India’s Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which domestic companies in Zhongguancun have not yet mastered, and Zhongguancun’s output badly trails Bangalore’s. That’s just a reflection of something fundamental: “modern” China cannot keep up with “backward” India when it comes to information technology.””
