{"id":14007,"date":"2018-07-14T10:01:41","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T10:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=14007"},"modified":"2018-07-15T10:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T10:59:41","slug":"chengdu-laid-back-tech-capital-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/chengdu-laid-back-tech-capital-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Chengdu: Laid Back Tech Capital of China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>At my previous job I hosted interviewers from around the world and talked at great length about why Chengdu is an attractive city in China for startups. Although to this day Chengdu still isn&#8217;t home to a single unicorn startup (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinadaily.com.cn\/business\/2017-11\/24\/content_34927213.htm\">Tap4Fun was a near miss<\/a> in late 2016 when their IPO was rejected by national regulators), the city&#8217;s tech industry has flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/chengdu-tech-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14078\" \/>\n\t<figcaption>Chengdu&#8217;s tech district to the south of the city<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I participate in stories about Chengdu&#8217;s technology sector much less frequently now, I was happy to meet a writer from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technode.com\">Technode<\/a> about growth in the city.\u00a0 In our conversation I made a point, as I usually do, about how integral Chengdu&#8217;s life style is in its development as a global city. It&#8217;s not a rate race (yet) like Beijing and Shanghai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful that I stumbled upon Chengdu so many years ago. I wouldn&#8217;t want to live anywhere else in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2018\/07\/11\/chengdu\/\">Chengdu: This laid-back city is learning how to keep up with the pace of tech<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At my previous job I hosted interviewers from around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chengdu: Laid Back Tech Capital of China<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/chengdu-laid-back-tech-capital-of-china\/\" \/>\n<meta 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