Sentence examples for technology districts from inspiring English sources

Some city officials have expressed concern that Dumbo -- which stands for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass -- has some advantages that the other technology districts do not.

But at a time when city officials are pushing hard to make Manhattan north of 96th Street and the other boroughs attractive alternatives to the New Jersey waterfront, it appears they have been unable, at least so far, to replicate the success they have had in Dumbo in six other technology districts in Brooklyn, Staten Island, Harlem and Queens.

California law allows school construction bonds to be spent on technology; districts also list the intended uses of bond funds in ballot materials available to voters.

And capital cities often beget small start-up clusters, like Zhongguancun, Beijing's technology district.

But when he sought in 2006 to take over the troubled company that runs Zhongguancun, northern Beijing's computer technology district, he attracted the attention of investigators.

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows XP, was selling for 32 yuan, less than $4, in the back alleys of Beijing's technology district before Microsoft formally released the $180 legal version for the China market earlier this year.

Since then, dozens of tech-related companies — all based in Beijing's Zhongguancun technology district, the so-called Chinese Silicon Valley — have applied for listing on the Shenzhen-based GEM.

Since China announced this April it would launch a second board for smaller enterprises that do not meet the listing requirements of the main boards on Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, dozens of tech-related companies mostly based in Beijing's Zhongguancun technology district, the so-called Chinese Silicon Valley–have applied for listing on the Shenzhen-based ChiNext.

"We have to change people's way of thinking," Mr. Tan said from his office in Zhongguancun, Beijing's high-technology district.

Further expanding its opening to the outside world, North Korea asked the Hyundai Group, South Korea's largest conglomerate, to build a high-technology district of computer venture companies near a scenic mountain on the nation's eastern coast.

He announced the opening of a research and development center in Beijing's high-technology district and also introduced a Chinese-language brand name for the company's domestic search engine -- Gu Ge, which roughly translates as "a harvesting song".