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Ｔｉａｎｊｉｎ　Ｈｉｇｈ－ｔｅｃｈ　Ｐａｒｋ 　　THE 85.74-sq-km area in eastern Tianjin that now bristles with hi-tech enterprises was, just two decades ago, a barren stretch of saline-alkaline soil. Opening-up and reform since 1991 has generated the hi-tech districts of Huayuan in its west, Binhai in the east, and the central Nankai, Wuqing, Beichen and Tanggu sci-tech parks. But despite these huge scientific advances, the area maintains a calm and pollution-free ambience. 　　The area, proudly known as the Tianjin High-Tech Park, represents the vanguard of the port city’s sci-tech advance. 　　 　　Independent Innovator 　　 　　Since the establishment of the “silicon valleys” of Zhongguancun in Beijing and Zhangjiang in the Pudong area of Shanghai, hi-tech areas as exemplified in eastern Tianjin are regarded as hotbeds of Chinese invention. 　　Tianjin, as site of China’s first domestically produced wrist watch, bicycle and TV set, has an impressive history of industrial development. 　　But no city can survive on past glories, and Tianjin has come firmly to grips with contemporary high-tech challenges. 　　In front of the Saixiang Company stands a three-meter high model of the world’s first steel radial meridian tire 33.00R51 ever manufactured in a one-step process. 　　The nearby Lishen Company is justly proud of having broken the Japanese monopoly on lithium-ion battery production and sales, particularly in view of the generally held belief at the time that China was still years away from industrialized production. 　　The Dawning Company in September 2008 made China a close second to the US by producing the world’s first high-performance commercial “super” computer model 5000A, capable of a hundred trillion calculations per second. 　　The many other high-tech companies established in the area make it 100 percent source of new technology, independent innovation, and high-caliber human resources; also of the most advanced Chinese intellectual property products in the fields of software, elect