Zhongguancun Science Park is the experimental field of institutional innovation in China, and is known as "Silicon Valley of China". Zhongguancun is a national high-tech industrial development zone in China and the core park of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei high-tech industrial belt. Zhongguancun is the most densely populated area of science, education, intelligence and human resources in China, with more than 40 institutions of higher learning represented by Peking University and Tsinghua University.

First, the development of Zhongguancun.

1, Zhongguancun Science Park, originated from "Zhongguancun Electronic Street" in the early 1980s.

2.1988 in May 10 was officially approved by the State Council, and1992 in May was officially determined by the State Science and Technology Commission and the State Commission for Economic Restructuring as the comprehensive reform pilot zone of the National High-tech Industrial Development Zone, which is the predecessor of Zhongguancun Science Park.

3. 1995 12, official switch of Zhongguancun customs. The Customs is located in the Beijing New Technology Industry Development Experimental Zone, which is the first customs established in the national new technology development zone with the approval of the State Council.

4./KLOC-0 was renamed Zhongguancun Science Park in August, 1999, and the Zhongguancun Science Park Management Committee, as an agency of Beijing Municipal Government, exercised unified leadership and management over the park.

Second, the origin of place names

Since the Ming Dynasty, it has been a eunuch cemetery. Because eunuchs in Ming and Qing dynasties were called "middle officials", they were called "middle official graves". There is also a saying that from the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs built temples and old-age manors here, and because they were called "middle officials" at that time, they called it "middle official village". Zhongguancun was officially named after liberation. After liberation, the China Academy of Sciences was built here, and it was renamed Zhongguancun at the suggestion of Mr. Chen Yuan, President of Beijing Normal University, because the word "official" was not pleasant to hear.