https://www.scmp.com/rss/322606/feed In this “Hi-Tech in Shenzhen” report, we look at how Shenzhen has risen to become the global epicentre of hi-tech innovations in telecommunication, automotive and other industries. Shenzhen is also the world’s largest manufacturer of drones, and robots are the next big thing. While the city is home to many technology giants, it is also the breeding ground of startups. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Tap here to launch this special feature https://www.scmp.com/infographics/china/money-wealth/article/3100043/how-shenzhen-surpassed-hong-kong-become-chinas-hi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/china/money-wealth/article/3100043/how-shenzhen-surpassed-hong-kong-become-chinas-hi?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Sep 2020 09:45:06 +0000 By now it’s customary for major smartphone makers to roll out multiple models with each product launch. Samsung’s latest Galaxy S10, for instance, has four variants, including a freshly released 5G device. Yet so far, OnePlus has been standing on the sidelines of this trend, instead opting for a mid-year refresh of its flagship handsets with a T appended to the name.  Check out OnePlus 7 pro on Amazon   That might be about to change, though, according to a leaked image appearing to show... https://www.scmp.com/start-ups/oneplus-going-unveil-more-one-phone-its-next-launch/article/3005550?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/start-ups/oneplus-going-unveil-more-one-phone-its-next-launch/article/3005550?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:54 +0000 This article originally appeared on ABACUS By now it’s customary for major smartphone makers to roll out multiple models with each product launch. Samsung’s latest Galaxy S10, for instance, has four variants, including a freshly released 5G device. Yet so far, OnePlus has been standing on the sidelines of this trend, instead opting for a mid-year refresh of its flagship handsets with a T appended to the name.  Check out OnePlus 7 pro on Amazon OnePlus, the Chinese smartphone startup that made a... https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3029275/oneplus-going-unveil-more-one-phone-its-next-launch?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3029275/oneplus-going-unveil-more-one-phone-its-next-launch?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:54 +0000 This article originally appeared on ABACUS I’ll admit: When the OBSBOT Tail first arrived, I wasn’t expecting much. It’s created by a company I’ve never heard of -- a young startup called Remo Technology based in China’s tech capital Shenzhen. Yet it promises to do what most well-established brands haven’t done: Building a video camera that spins around automatically to track and lock a subject in frame. Sounds too good to be true. But Remo proved me wrong. Check out OBSBOT Tail on Amazon The... https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3029185/obsbot-tail-you-can-take-good-action-video-without-even-trying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/abacus/tech/article/3029185/obsbot-tail-you-can-take-good-action-video-without-even-trying?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:16:00 +0000 I’ll admit: When the OBSBOT Tail first arrived, I wasn’t expecting much. It’s created by a company I’ve never heard of -- a young startup called Remo Technology based in China’s tech capital Shenzhen. Yet it promises to do what most well-established brands haven’t done: Building a video camera that spins around automatically to track and lock a subject in frame. Sounds too good to be true. But Remo proved me wrong. Check out OBSBOT Tail on Amazon The OBSBOT Tail is really easy to use. And by... https://www.scmp.com/start-ups/obsbot-tail-you-can-take-good-action-video-without-even-trying/article/3000942?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/start-ups/obsbot-tail-you-can-take-good-action-video-without-even-trying/article/3000942?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Feb 2019 11:16:00 +0000 Tencent Holdings, the operator of China’s largest online social network, is creating price distortions in the country’s market for cloud computing, with its recent nominal bid to provide the service to a Chinese city government, said a competitor. The Shenzhen based company placed a 0.01 yuan nominal bid in a tender called by the government of Xiamen city for cloud computing services, according to tender documents. Xiamen’s government had earmarked a budget of 4.95 million yuan for the one-year... https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2083197/tencents-001-yuan-bid-xiamen-cloud-contract-raises-ire?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/enterprises/article/2083197/tencents-001-yuan-bid-xiamen-cloud-contract-raises-ire?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 ZTE Corp, China’s largest listed telecommunications equipment supplier, earlier this month joined the unenviable fraternity of companies that paid stiff penalties after pleading guilty to breaching the United States’ longstanding sanctions on Iran and North Korea. The company was slapped with a total penalty of US$1.2 billion on March 8, becoming the first technology company alongside some of the world’s largest banks as the biggest US sanctions busters to settle with Washington. The US... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2081084/chinas-zte-joins-unwanted-club-us-sanctions-busters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2081084/chinas-zte-joins-unwanted-club-us-sanctions-busters?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Mar 2017 03:03:24 +0000 ZTE Corp, China’s largest listed telecommunications equipment supplier, has agreed to pay the United States government a record fine to settle a five-year probe of its trade sanctions violations, in a move to lift the ban on US exports of chips and components for its products. Shares of the Shenzhen-based company jumped as much as 8.9 per cent to HK$13.28 in Hong Kong, their biggest intraday advance in 19 months, before closing up 6.07 per cent to HK$12.94. Trading of its shares in Shenzhen was... https://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2076867/chinas-zte-pay-record-us12bn-fine-violating-iran-north-korea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2076867/chinas-zte-pay-record-us12bn-fine-violating-iran-north-korea?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:00:45 +0000 Shenzhen surpassed its economic growth target last year, largely thanks to investment in information technology and other hi-tech industries. But city leaders and industry insiders are growing concerned about a business exodus, with ­officials warning that rising costs may be driving favoured enterprises elsewhere. The city’s economy grew 9 per cent to 1.93 trillion yuan (HK$2.16 trillion) last year compared with 2015, mayor Xu Qin said in his work report at the start of the annual session of... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2062058/shenzhen-beats-2016-growth-target-fears-mount-over-business?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2062058/shenzhen-beats-2016-growth-target-fears-mount-over-business?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:03:06 +0000 I was going to write about disruptive technology, but the whole week has been taken up with the disruption of Donald Trump, as he upset the American establishment by winning the US presidential election. Trump’s victory repeated the Brexit phenomenon: that the elites don’t get it. Trump basically tapped into the anger in the dominant American white voter that life has not been good the past 30 years – attributing this to globalisation, immigration, disruptive technology and, mostly, the failure... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2045069/trumps-alpha-male-darwinian-feat-us-election-power?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2045069/trumps-alpha-male-darwinian-feat-us-election-power?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Nov 2016 05:01:23 +0000 DJI, the world’s biggest maker of remote controlled drones, opens its first retail store in Hong Kong this weekend in the heart of Causeway Bay to give up-and-coming drone pilots hands-on experience of flying the machines. The 10,000 square foot site – over three storeys in the newly opened 535 Mall on Jaffe Road – marks a return to its roots by Da-Jiang Innovations Science & Technology Co, the formal name of DJI. Its founder Frank Wang, an alumnus of Hong Kong University of Science &... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2021614/drone-maker-djis-new-hong-kong-store-offer-customers-chance-fly?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/2021614/drone-maker-djis-new-hong-kong-store-offer-customers-chance-fly?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Sep 2016 06:41:32 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Many cities aspire to become a paradise for such hardware innovators for their region, but Shenzhen may be the only one that started out as the world's factory – and a global capital for innovation, especially consumer electronics. Each day, various consumer products are made in Shenzhen, developed and perfected alongside factories and supply chain managers, with the flexibility, creativity and speed of the city’s manufacturing system. All it needs is a bridge to link global... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943987/world-full-hardware-innovators-who-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943987/world-full-hardware-innovators-who-are?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 07:09:04 +0000 Not long ago, budding entrepreneurs innovated software while major corporations created hardware with dedicated research and development budgets. Times have changed, and Shenzhen now stands at the forefront of China's tech revolution. Shenzhen's hot-housed hardware production platform companies, such as Ingdan and Seeed, show how anyone with a working design doodled on the back of an envelope can get their idea produced quickly, see if it works, and then take it to market. Open-source hardware,... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943965/entrepreneurs-take-multinational?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943965/entrepreneurs-take-multinational?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:14 +0000 As a manufacturing base for electronics and hi-tech products, Shenzhen plays an important role showcasing China's innovations to the world, a channel for foreign products to enter the country and a platform for co-operation and exchange between companies. Many of these activities happen at exhibitions. The annual China Hi-Tech Fair is probably the best known hi-tech exhibition in Shenzhen, which will celebrate its 18th edition at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Centre from November 16 to... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943966/citys-technical-marvels-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943966/citys-technical-marvels-show?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:14 +0000 The Nanshan district in Shenzhen is not only home to many of the city's hi-tech firms, it is also the breeding ground for thousands of technology startups. With an area of only 185 square kilometres, Nanshan is the base of more than 100 public-listed companies, including Tencent, ZTE, Kingdee, Mindray, Hanslaser and Yulong. There are more than 8,000 technology firms in the district, of which 84 per cent are in new and emerging industries. In 2014, the district recorded a GDP of 346.4 billion... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943960/cradle-it-firms-and-listings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943960/cradle-it-firms-and-listings?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:14 +0000 Shenzhen has long been a high-revving automotive hub. The city is best known as mainland China's powerhouse for electric cars, thanks to the rapid expansion of BYD, which was established here in 1995. Listed on the Hong Kong and Shenzhen stock exchanges, and backed by American investor Warren Buffett, the Pingshan, Longgang-based company has become the world's largest manufacturer of rechargeable batteries and electric vehicles (EV). BYD's Iron Phosphate "Fe" Battery, for instance, leads the... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943975/marques-rev-latest-engines?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943975/marques-rev-latest-engines?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:13 +0000 The evolution of robot manufacturer UBTech is an updated Chinese version of the classic Silicon Valley story, says its co-founder and executive director, Goti Deng, The company identified mobile social robots as the next-generation tech field and raced to produce a working product while fighting for capital, mind share and distribution. It's not enough to be in a hot industry, Deng says. "You have to be good in order to get attention, help and resources," he says. The company spent years burning... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943977/home-help-tells-success-story?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943977/home-help-tells-success-story?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:13 +0000 The global market for commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV, or drones) has experienced explosive growth over the past few years, and much of this expansion was driven by the new products and technologies from specialist makers in Shenzhen. The drone market is huge. According to an estimate in Oppenheimer's February 2016 Drone Report, over 11 million UAV units were shipped annually. Consumer drones account for 10 million of these, but faster growth is expected from the "prosumer" (or... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943969/manufacturers-soar-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943969/manufacturers-soar-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:13 +0000 Salary increases and labour shortages are forcing Chinese companies to embrace automation throughout the manufacturing chain. For many companies, robots are the solution, with China accounting for slightly less than 25 per cent of global shipments for industrial robots last year, according to research firm HIS. Facing the inevitable, local and national authorities are encouraging the trend by providing support for the manufacture and purchase of robotics in mainland China. Guangdong alone plans... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943978/humans-control-technology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943978/humans-control-technology?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:12 +0000 A small team of French hardware designers and entrepreneurs arrived in Shenzhen in 2011 with the intention of producing their own smartphone. Rather than investing money and taking five years to design their phone from scratch, they joined up with a local original equipment manufacturer (OEM) producer. This led to a partnership with Tinno, a large Shenzhen telecommunications company that produces 25 to 30 million phones a year. Tinno became a 90 per cent majority partner, agreeing to do most of... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943979/partnership-yields-dividends?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943979/partnership-yields-dividends?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:12 +0000 Over the past two decades Shenzhen has grown into a global epicentre of telecommunications innovation and equipment production. With large companies such as Foxconn, Huawei and ZTE, along with tens of thousands of smaller design houses and "mom-and-pop" factories, the city pulls together all aspects of the hi-tech design and manufacturing ecosystem in one place. "Shenzhen is the hardware hub of the world, thanks to the Free Economic Zone established by the government," says Shlomo Freund of... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943983/centre-creativity?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/china/topics/hi-tech-shenzhen/article/1943983/centre-creativity?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 12 May 2016 04:57:11 +0000