Exploring the World
Shenzhen
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The city is born only 33 years ago, and its development has been heavily supported by the government, betting on the attractiveness and the dynamism of the Hongkong-Guangdong bay. Greenfield highways and Infrastructures have been built on crops field to support a multimillion inhabitants city, and several skyscrapers are still built every every years. The surprise comes when you realize that the city is not the Chinese stereotype, and demonstrate on contrary many parks, an acceptable air quality, and a strong emphasis on design and architecture.
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These last years, Shenzhen has been dragging a lot of tech talents wanting to work for global and successful companies like Huawei, DJI or Tencent. The city is now well-recognized in China for the density and the reactiveness of the local ecosystem of hardware and electronics component manufacturers. The latest leverage years of Hi-Tech manufacturing and have actually reached an unrivalled level of maturity. Chinese companies are actually selling the process and industrial design they have developed themselves, even to the Occidental brands that we are used to consider as technological leaders.
Workshop
Workshop's mission is to help Foreign product owners to bring their projects to life and to leverage the Shenzhen unique hardware and manufacturing ressources to scale real fast. New architecture designs is 3 days, the production scaled at 50 000 p/month in 4 weeks, this is how reactive they are.
Navigating in this crowded ecosystem of suppliers might be really though, especially when your are not use to Chinese business rules. Workshop is your only one intermediary, and help you to ensure a reliable supply and high quality standards, we all required confidentiality.
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Last but not least, you can have an online access to your project operations status, and your production livestream thanks to cameras integrated to the production lines.
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Website: meetworkshop.com
Remarkable places
HAX
This investing company, branch of the SOSV, is the most ​active Hardware accelerator in the world.
Investing 100 K$ and taking 9% of share in each invested companies, the HAX offer a 4 months accelerating program for startups in pre-launch phase.
Attractive for foreigners to get some support regarding their​ prototyping and manufacturing needs, the last bast was actually specifically international.
Website: hax.co
SHENZHEN
HuaQiangBei Electronics Markets
The area is like a huge Lego box for makers and electronics manufacturers. You can find almost anything from the smallest components to the 360 Camera. Thousands of resellers and small electronics shops are dispatched in the dozens of 10-levels malls all around the place.
If you are curious, you can try the expedition and explore the crowded alleys of these malls and see the last and cheapest gadgets on earth.
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