On September 30, 2013, Beijing would celebrate the 64-year-old birthday of the new China. On this day, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held its ninth collective learning session since the 18th National Congress in 2012 on the theme of implementing the strategy of innovation-driven development. Notably, this collective learning session was moved out of the Chinese Communist Party headquarters Zhongnanhai for the first time and moved to Zhongguancun.

Over the past five years in Zhongguancun, as China’s first national high-tech industrial development zone and national independent innovation demonstration zone, how effective has its innovation-driven development strategy been? Over the past 40 years, what inspiration can Zhongguancun offer to promote the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in this new era?