Venture Capital continues to increase to China, particularly in advanced of the Olympics, as $3.2 billion has been put into Chinese companies, an increase from $1.8 billion the previous year according to John Boudreau of the San Jose Mercury News on May 11, 2008 titled Money Pours into China, Despite Challenges.

The innovation of the Silicon Valley and its reputation around the world has sparked interest within China to create its own areas, with most of the money being sent to Beijing or Shanghai metropolitan areas as centers of China’s high-tech world.

It may be easy to get money for start-ups within China, but the brutal secret of business within China is just how competitive the environment is. China may still be the new land of opportunity, but to really make a stable Silicon Valley environment, it will require a stable supply of energy for the industry, strong individualistic sentiments, and lack of government regulations that are often hard to come by in other nations.