This afternoon I had a great conversation with Lonnie Hodge of CultureFish, a firm based in Guandong focused on SEO, SEM and online management of your company’s brand. It sounds like a lot of boring stuff, but when you meet Lonnie he makes you see otherwise. Beyond the SEO stuff we were knocking around, Lonnie brought up an intersting point about tech in China. So I am asking you, where is the best place to be a running a tech company? Lonnie made some great points about southern China(including HK) as THE spot for tech in China, including access to IT decision makers, talent pool, foreign media to push your product to the world to name a few.

We all know of the incubation centers bursting at the seems in Beijing. Google and Microsoft keep their Beijing campus right next to the main gate to Qinghua University (for those of you out of the loop, Qinghua is the MITof China). Hangzhou and Suzhou are flooded with incubation centers, as well as every other city in China looking to attract tech dollars, or should I say the little red maos.

Being that I run two tech start-ups, and I do so in this little city we call Shanghai only because this is where we have always been, I would like to know from the China tech world where they think China’s tech home is. Today’s conversation makes me believe there may be some real opportunities lurking elsewhere that the land of Oz in Shanghai is blinding my eyes to.

I want to hear your thoughts and opinions on where the tech epicenter of China is.