{"id":3217,"date":"2012-07-23T08:11:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T08:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2013-02-19T07:32:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T07:32:45","slug":"rise-of-chengdu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/rise-of-chengdu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of Chengdu: China&#8217;s New High Tech Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3218\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3218\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3218\" title=\"Tianfu Software Park\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tianfu-sp.jpg\" alt=\"Tianfu Software Park\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tianfu-sp-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tianfu-sp.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tianfu Software Park in the South of Chengdu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I stumbled upon an article yesterday published in ZDNet about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/rise-of-chengdu-chinas-new-high-tech-hub-7000000799\/\" target=\"_blank\">rise of Chengdu<\/a>\u00a0as one of the prominent high-tech zones in China. Some Chengdu notables:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Named fastest growing city in the world by Forbes<\/li>\n<li>Half of all Intel mobile chips in the world are manufactured here<\/li>\n<li>Chengdu&#8217;s economy has quadrupled since 2002<\/li>\n<li>Top grossing iOS developer of 2012 (so far) is in Chengdu, and it is Tap4Fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I already knew all of this, but the surprising thing about the article is that our office building is actually in the photograph. It&#8217;s the one to the very right of the photograph, obscured behind a tree.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/rise-of-chengdu-chinas-new-high-tech-hub-7000000799\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rise of Chengdu: China&#8217;s New High Tech Hub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stumbled upon an article yesterday published in ZDNet about [&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],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rise of Chengdu: China&#039;s New High Tech Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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