外媒看北京与硅谷两个城市创新上的差异

the fundamental difference between Beijing and Silicon Valley is not the sky color, but on one side the young people are talking about buying a new house,a new car and getting married, while on the other side young people are talking about how to change the world.

北京和硅谷最根本的差异不是蓝天的颜色，而是生活在两个城市中的人们在讨论什么，生活在北京的人们经常在讨论如何买个房子，买辆车还有准备结婚，然而生活在硅谷的人们则讨论最多的问题是如何改变这个世界。

Now and then we can read from the newspaper or the Internet that a Silicon Valley company is valued over 1 billion US dollars. Also we can see many famous US IT rands on the Internet such as Google, Facebook,Twitter, Amazon... People are still wondering about why companies are so creative. While in other places such as China, we cannot see world class IT companies. What makes the difference?

我们可以从报纸上看到一些新闻或者互联网上报道硅谷已经价值10亿多美元了，然而我们可以看到许多知名的it公司诸如谷歌，脸谱，推特 亚马逊 的人们都在疑问为什么这些公司是如此有创造精神的，但是在中国，我们没有看到比较大的it企业，是什么原因造就了不同呢？

Are American people smarter than people in the rest of the world? Not exactly.

是美国人比其他国的人聪明吗？这种说法不正确

In China, people are becoming more and more anxious as they have to fight for a place to stay, a car to drive. They have high living pressures, they are now in a phase of pursuing material richness. They can not spare much time and don't want to spend time on thinking about something which are not easy to get implemented in a short period of time. They are more concerning about short term interest.

在中国，人们变得越来越关注他们不得不有个房子住，有辆车子开，他们有强烈的高生活品质的追求，他们现在是在追求物质丰富的一个阶段，他们不能也不愿意花费太多时间在讨论其他事情。

Also the innovation environment is also not healthy, people are not encouraged to innovate here, companies also don't want to get the risk of investing on innovating something that may fail. Companies don't want failures/ They are more willing to spend money on copying something from others since that is fast and cheap.

Move worse is startup are difficult to survive, investors are not willing to invest on some people they have no relation to because they cannot trust them.

The innovation policy is also not satisfying, the government doesn't have complete policies to protect innovation and they don't have the complete plan for converting innovation into products.

并且中国的创新环境也是不健全的，这里人们不鼓励创新，企业也不想冒险投资一个创新的事物，担心失败，企业不想要失败，他们愿意花钱去复制别人正在做的因为他很迅速的机会而且很廉价，创新政策也不满足需求，政府没有去完整的政策去保护创新并且他们没有一个完整的计划把创新转化为一个产品。

While in Silicon Valley, people are living in another society. People no need to worry about where to stay the next day or how much I should earn to get married. They can spend time on doing what they like to do. They have the freedom to choose what to learn.

硅谷就不同了，这里的人们生活在另一个社会环境下，人们不担心第二天在那里住，也不计算我需要挣多少钱才能结婚，他们可以话费更多的时间放在他们喜欢做的事情上，他们有自由选择该学习什么。

The environment there is also appealing, companies usually are willing to invest on innovation, they have that kind of genes, they are proud of innovation. they are pleased to see what they create. Also they are not so anxious about the result, they are willing to do long term investment.

环境也好，企业通常愿意投资一些创新的事物，他们以创新为自豪，他们乐于创新，并且不担心结果，他们愿意花费长时间去投资。

If you have an idea which is attractive enough, there are many people who are willing to invest on you. So it's easy for people to start their own business. Even if you fail, it doesn't matter. They don't want to fail, but they can accept failures.

如果你有个想法足够大胆疯狂，会有很多人愿意投资给你，所以很容易形成自己的商业，甚至你失败了，没关系，他们也不想失败，但是他们能接受失败。

China is still undergoing a high speed economic booming. Many people are still fighting for living a good life, In the future, when people are able to buying a house and having a car.. They may turn their attention to more spiritual. At that time, it should be the spring of China's innovation.

中国仍然遭受着高速的经济繁荣镜像，很多人仍然为了一个好的生活在奋斗，在不远的将来，当这些人们能够买得起一个房子和一辆车，他们会转移更多的注意力，改变自己的看法，到那时必定会成为中国创新的春天。

But one thing we cannot deny is that the innovation environment should be improved in China now.

但是有一件事我们不能否认那就是创新环境中国现在应该尽快改善。