Meanwhile, nature has been evolving "a very high tech enterprise" over the last 3.8 billion years, says Benyus.
Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park alone is home to thousands of high-tech enterprises.
It has grand projects today: a festival of cultures in 2004, and its 22@ ("veintidos arroba") district, where it hopes high-tech enterprises will set up.
In the export centers of Guangdong Province, the party has begun nudging energy-exhaustive industries like ceramics farther inland to bring in greener, high-tech enterprises.
These changes are giving 14th Street a new persona as a residential boulevard, a booming retail thoroughfare and a mecca for high-tech enterprises.
It is now home to hundreds of high-tech enterprises, an international convention centre and a "university city" that expects its student population of 30,000 to rise to 150,000 within ten years.
The island has a traditional fishing sector — oysters are a key export — but it has also developed a cluster of high-tech enterprises close to the city's university district.
HONG KONG — A new Chinese stock exchange meant to nurture small and high-tech enterprises, modeled on the U.S.-based Nasdaq market, started trading Friday and all 28 listed companies soared in price.
The mission of the new organization, widely called LISTnet, was to turn hundreds of mainly small high-tech enterprises into a community based on regional identity and shared goals.
The government had invited Western champions such as Microsoft and Google to establish research facilities, instructed domestic champions to be more innovative and poured money into science and technology clusters (Beijing's Zhongguancun Science Park was already home to nearly 20,000 high-tech enterprises as Mr Hu spoke).
These included the component stocks of the various indexes and specified stocks of high-tech enterprises.
