A wasteland Chou Chih-yuan's impression of Beijing in the early 90s was a "wasteland." Not only were there few international firms, you couldn't even sniff out a high-tech footprint at Peking University or Tsinghua University.
周至元來得早，印象中，九○年代初期，北京可說一片蕭條，不僅國際廠商蹤跡罕見，就連北大、清大校園裡也嗅不到什麼高科技氛圍。