revamped its Soviet-style Chinese Academy of Sciences to fund pre-commercial university research on a peer-reviewed (rather than a political) basis, in much the same way that the National Science Foundation does in the United States. At the same time, the state, with support from regional governments, financed the development of high-tech zones to further innovation commercialization. Since 1985, when the first such zone was developed, in Shenzhen, they have proliferated to the point where they are a common stop on official tours of any major Chinese city.