China's Silicon Valley: The City That Grew from 30,000 to 18 Million in 40 Years, Drone Capital & World's Largest Electronics Market
📍 Shenzhen, China📅 3-day itinerary
The city Deng Xiaoping designated as a laboratory for capitalism inside a socialist state in 1980 — where 30,000 fishermen's village residents became 18 million urban residents in four decades, where Huawei, Tencent, DJI and BYD have their global headquarters, where 100,000 shops sell every electronic component on Earth at wholesale prices, and where 8,000 oil painters produce 60% of the world's commercially sold paintings in a village swallowed by the city they make their living in.
The 10-Block Electronics Bazaar Where Replacement iPhone Screens Retail for $6 and the Component That Powers Whatever Device You're Reading This On Arrived Here Before It Shipped Anywhere Else & The Village of 8,000 Painters Who Have Reproduced Every Famous Painting in Western Art History and Now Also Create Originals
The MTR Border Crossing from China's Most Modern City to the Compressed Neon-Lit Vertical Streets of Hong Kong — the Most Dramatic Urban Contrast Available in 30 Minutes of Train Travel Anywhere in the World & The 6-Metre Bronze of Deng Xiaoping Walking Forward in a Business Suit at the Summit of the City He Created
The World's Top-Selling Electric Vehicle Brand's Flagship Showroom and the Company That Controls 70% of the Global Drone Market's Foster + Partners Headquarters — Both Within 20 km of the Electronics Market That Supplies Their Component Competitors & The Wild Flamingo Colony That Arrived Naturally in the Bay as Water Quality Improved