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An unlikely tech cluster exemplifies China’s economic vision
But the “Hefei model” will not be easy to emulate
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NIO, one of the world’s fastest-growing EV companies, has some of its main factories in Hefei, in China's Anhui province.
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The Economist
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A stroll down “Quantum Boulevard” reveals one of the world’s tightest concentrations of bleeding-edge technology firms. Dozens of companies feed a quantum-computing supply chain that did not exist a few years ago. Their wares include some of the most advanced commercialised technology on the planet.
The district is hardly a decade old; not long ago the most modern tech in the area was farming equipment. And it is in an unlikely spot: Hefei, the capital of Anhui, one of China’s less fancied provinces.
