Table 2 Methods to Ensure Reliability and Validity

✓ Conducted semi-constructed interview and adjusted questions based on interviewees’ responses.

✓ Data was collected in multiple ways in order to ensure data can be triangulated. One information from an interviewee needed to be supported by another interviewee or archive data.

✓ We studied China’s entrepreneurship environment and the development of ZGC beforehand, so that interview design and data could be contextualized.

✓ At least two researchers involved in the process of interview: one asked questions while the other(s) took notes and complemented questions, then compared interpretations with each other.

✓ The coding process also involved multiple researchers. Codes and descriptions were changed or adjusted based on the common view of researchers.

✓ We presented our findings to other scholars and practitioners to get feedback and subsequently enhance the validity of findings.