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The transition China has made from a low-tech developing country to a cutting-edge technological power is inspiring. The nation prioritizes technology development as a strategic goal, and the government channels massive investments into becoming a world leader with state of the art tech hubs. China’s most prominent unicorns are focused on automation and AI, along with a strong Hardware & IoT presence in the impressive Shenzhen startup ecosystem. ==read-more==
 However, China has made a clear decision not to open its ecosystems globally. The majority of China's startups are focused only on China’s economy, and therefore have a limited footprint. Chinese tech users are also isolated from the global Internet by the great firewall which regulates online traffic in China. Given the sheer size of the country’s economy, Chinese ecosystems were still able to achieve impressive growth and create an extraordinary number of startups and unicorns. Much of the growth potential of Chinese ecosystems has been realized, and the current inward trend limits the ability of China’s startup ecosystem to pursue other tech markets and achieve global leadership status. 
 Another critical challenge for China is managing friction between its successful founders and the state. Unlike in the West, where tech leaders have a free hand in achieving celebrity status and working on projects like sending spaceships to other planets, becoming a Chinese entrepreneur can come with restrictions and risks. The implications of recent friction between the Chinese government and its most notable entrepreneurs, exemplified in the ANT Group’s failed IPO and Didi’s crackdown will leave a lasting mark on the ecosystem, regardless of current positive efforts from the government to backtrack and fix them. 
 Multiple Chinese corporations are successful players in the global consumer market, with Alibaba, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Tencent leading the way. TikTok, a popular B2C application, has also taken the world by storm, although restrictions imposed on some of these tech giants by Western economies have put pressure on them and limited their growth. 
 It’s understandable why Chinese entrepreneurs choose to focus locally, considering the massive size of the national market and the geopolitical difficulties in expanding globally. However, in order to truly fulfill its startup ecosystem potential, China needs to aim internationally in the medium to long term.

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Zhang Yiming is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He founded ByteDance in 2012 and developed the news aggregator Toutiao and the video sharing platform TikTok (Douyin).

Zhang Yiming

As the innovation hub of the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan is renowned for its outstanding high-tech R&D capacity, highly-trained professionals, and thriving networks of entrepreneurs which enable our  startup ecosystem to achieve steady continuous growth.

Director General, Department of Academia-Industry Collaboration and Science Park Affairs

We've seen the startup ecosystem of Moscow rapidly mature in the  last years. Having a dedicated startup agency has been instrumental in helping to deliver the right support services to entrepreneurs, investors and talent.

Startup Ecosystem Comparative Analysis

In the recent years, Moscow has become a gravity centre for the most talented people not only from Russia and Eastern Europe, but from all over the world. Such concentration of professionals affirms Moscow as one of the global “cities of the future”, world centre for the development of breakthrough technologies, particularly in IT.

The Moscow Agency of Innovations was established to create a truly favorable environment for the advancement of technology in Moscow.

2016

The Skolkovo Innovation Center and Skolkovo Foundation was signed into law with a goal to goal is to create a sustainable ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation.

2010

Avito, a classified ads website and now a unicorn, first went online.

2007

The Moscow Seed Fund, a VC which invests in see and pre-seed startups, was established.

2005

Yandex search engine was launched!!!!

1997

CAREC Startup Hub is launched

2022

CAREC Ministerial Conference endorses CAREC Digital Strategy 2030

2021

CAREC Secretariat launches technical assistance on startups and digitalization

2020

CAREC 2030 Strategy endorsed and includes ICT as cost-cutting sector for CAREC Program

2017

CAREC Institute establishes office in Urumchi, PRC

2015

CAREC program approves 6 projects amounting to $247 million under energy, trade, and transport sectors

2001

ADB officially establishes CAREC program

Technical assistance to promote regional economic cooperation in Central Asia is approved

1996

Запуск CAREC Startup Hub

 Министерская конференция ЦАРЭС одобряет Цифровую стратегию ЦАРЭС 2030

Секретариат ЦАРЭС запускает техническую помощь стартапам и цифровизации

Гендерная стратегия ЦАРЭС до 2030 года одобрена всеми странами-участницами

Институт ЦАРЭС получает правовой статус и Стратегия ЦАРЭС-2030 включает ИКТ в качестве сектора для Программы ЦАРЭС

Создана физическая база Института ЦАРЭС

Одобрено шесть проектов ЦАРЭС на сумму $247 млн

АБР официально учредил программу ЦАРЭС

Одобрена техническая помощь в продвижении регионального экономического сотрудничества в Центральной Азии

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