And, in February, Medvedev, in typically top-down Russian governmental fashion, announced plans to build a high-tech zone inspired by Silicon Valley.

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In the city's high-tech zone, cleared as a site for hoped-for semiconductor factories and pharmaceutical plants, cows graze amid empty buildings.

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Edifier's factory is located in a special high tech economic zone with emphasis on environmental sustainability including state of the art recycling, solar power generation and treated water reuse.

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On the one hand, the country recognizes the Internet's importance towards developing a modern knowledge economy, and has set up a high-tech zone called the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) to drive the country's online initiatives.

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China has supplied him with high-tech equipment to use against our airplanes in a no-fly zone.

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