Great for China has that development level. I hope it will not take environment affect like Beijing.
P/S: I heard that Shenzhen is heaven of copy and fake product.
Although many writer call Shenzhen as "the capital of coping/KIRFs"
but in most case, they are doing legal things
copy/maintain the function(for example, the function of instant messaging)
and not copy the method of how to achieve that function
meanwhile, invest heavily on research of improving users' experience
A simple logic here is
you can hardly win in market competition
if you insist on producing a car with 7 wheels
↑ Yes, ICQ is the first famous instant messaging software
↓ but Tencent QQ is far advanced than that
01) 720P VOIP
02) Multiple Video Talks with Real-time Effects
03) Roaming Customized Emotion Pictures and Conversation Records, no matter what PC you're using
04) Built-in SNS + Blog (like Facebook, with 597+ million users)
05) Built-in Microblog (like twitter, with 469+ million users)
06) Email Reminder (QQMail, No.1 email service in China)
07) QQShow / freely customize your image in a picture that is listed
08) QQ Group, connect people with same hobby / in one company / with common interest
enable them talk together, sing a song or share information / files
09) Distant assistant / Remote control
10) WeChat (like whatsapp), connect with 300+ million users on smartphone
11) Capture screenshot of you handset on PC
12) See a tidy latest local and world News window after log-in
13) You can customize who can see you online you using invisible mode, vice versa
14) Automatic change you status if you are not using the computer
15) Automatic reply (could be customized)
16) Screen shock function if hope to get a reply immediately
17) Log-in on different devices (PC/Tablet/Smartphone) at the same time
18) If you want to sending files to a offline friend, it will handle the transit
19) Share music and listen together with your friends, play game together with your friends
.... and many other functions, sorry but I'm not their employee
when we reviewing other big companies in Shenzhen
many of them are pioneer of innovation.
Shenzhen companies holding 45.4% of China's PCT patent (the International Patent)
According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on 27 January 2009, Huawei was ranked as the largest applicant under WIPO's Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), with 1,737 applications published in 2008.
ZTE Corporation of Shenzhen, with 2,826 published applications, overtook Panasonic Corporation of Japan (2,463) as the No.1 applicant in 2011.
http://www.wipo.int/freepublications/en/patents/901/wipo_pub_901_2012.pdf
BGI, the largest genomics center/ genome-mapping facility in the world, provides comprehensive sequencing and bioinformatics services for medical, agricultural and environmental applications. We help our customers achieve their research goals by delivering rapid, high-quality results using a broad array of cost-effective, cutting-edge technologies.
Nature announced Ten People Who Mattered This Year, BGI Executive Director Jun Wang is on the list and also the only Chinese.
Shenzhen is also one nuclear research center of China ↓
Science Magazine announced the top ten Breakthroughs of the Year 2012
including Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment Results of Shenzhen
