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China’s answer to Silicon Valley fosters hundreds of start-ups

China’s answer to Silicon Valley fosters hundreds of start-ups as old-world industries wind down By China correspondent Matthew Carney China is pinning its future economic growth on a high-tech future, with the world’s second biggest economy shifting towards innovation and away from manufacturing and construction. The old economy of manufacturing, steelmaking and construction that has lifted 500 million out of …