A movie that approaches the past, the present, and the future of the electronic city "Shenzhen" developed with an unprecedented explosive speed in the world

ChineseShenzhen(Shenzhen) is the world's largest electric cities where smart phones and PC related products gather from all over the world and active trading is done. How many years ago Shenzhen, one of the poorest regions in the world in China's one regional city, developed rapidlyWiredI am covering it.

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Shenzhen city full of small shops and people.


Andrew Juan, who is introducing the market in Shenzhen, told the cameraman, "Cameras shoulder as though they were not powered on.The Shenzhen market is a strict" no camera (camera prohibited) policy That's why I will talk to you.


To the market where small stores densely.


People who negotiate with glass case. From the person who found the camera, a sharp gaze is poured.


For sale the back panel of the iPhone ......


Samsung's battery etc. The real thing, the fake is confused.


Mr. Juan pointed out a safe. "There is cash in," Juan said.


A shop selling an empty box for iPhone.


Liquid crystal panel for bunched for iPhone.


You can also see how you are repairing your smartphone.


Some shops have all the equipment for fixing smartphones and PCs.


When a man wraps baggage round and round with a tape, it is a sign of a transaction establishment.


Shenzhen developed in history, unparalleled speed.


In comparison with the fact that American Silicon Valley originally developed in the semiconductor industry is growing rapidly in the software industry now, Shenzhen is called "Hardware Silicon Valley".


Factors of rapid growth in Shenzhen are "Moore's lawJuan thinks that.


Moore's Law is an empirical rule advocated by Intel's Gordon Moore, "The number of semiconductors transistors doubles every two years."


The semiconductor industry has developed integrated circuits to comply with Moore's Law.


This means, for example, when printing the same letter ......


It is something like decreasing the font size steadily. Semiconductor circuits are now able to obtain many chips from the same silicon wafer so that the number of characters printed on the same page doubles.


It is no longer soldered by semiconductor manufacturing, but the increase in semiconductor integration rate according to Moore's law realized the price reduction of computers.


And in the 1990s Windows came out, the PC spread all at once.


It is because there is a time when anyone can easily use computers without difficult programming skills such as C language.


Eventually, various forms of computer equipment were born ... ...


In modern society, the era of the smart phone of the computer which can be put in the pocket celebrated.


And new technologies such as IoT and robot are about to bud.


That is why Shenzhen has developed rapidly with the evolution of such hardware.


A man who plays table tennis against a machine.


Ping-pong balls are sent out as "TrainerbotMachine called.


Trainerbot developers are developing products in Shenzhen.


Hardware accelerator consulting hardware development from product development to release, sales strategyHAX(Former name: Haxlr 8r) Mr. Duncan Turner. HAX is based in Shenzhen.


The reason is that Shenzhen is the best place for hardware development in the world. In Shenzhen where people and materials are available, we can develop products at a faster speed than anywhere. For the startup of speed competition, the place where the world's most product development environment is well established is Shenzhen.


Thomas Esther, Rovenso, who develops products with HAX.


This is a special joystick under development. It seems like a part that operates a robot used in surgery performed over the net.


For HAX, for the development of a large robot, I will experiment with making a small size robot as a prototype.


"In Shenzhen we can develop products faster than anywhere, cheaper than anywhere else," Turner says.


HAX sometimes produces different parts at once with 10 3D printers. Mr. Chen said he learned in the United States, "I do not think I will develop in the US".


Mr. Estairr says that the speed feeling that parts ordered this morning will be completed and available in the daytime the next day is attractive. "It will take 9 months in Switzerland (in my hometown), three months if it is Shenzhen."


Street of Shenzhen which continues to enlarge.


Professor Juan Dew of the University of Hong Kong said, "There is no city that developed as soon as Shenzhen in history," he surprises.


It is no longer clear how far the population is in Shenzhen now.


However, under the former planned economy, Shenzhen was also a poor rural village.


This figure compares the economic scale of Hong Kong and Shenzhen of 1977 at the Shenzhen Museum. It is said that Shenzhen of the time was an economic scale less than 1/10 of Hong Kong.


It was Deng Xiaoping that changed Shenzhen so much. Deng appointed Shenzhen as one of the special economic zones that opened the door to overseas capital.


As a result, Shenzhen is to develop as a place of manufacturing.


In the planned economy, people got everything from foodstuffs and clothing using government-supplied coupons. However, in Shenzhen I bought my favorite things with the money I earned. Many people attracted to this "freedom" gathered in Shenzhen from all over China.


This is a picture of those working at Nanyang Electric factory. Everyone is working on a work in a free style, and you can understand the style of Shenzhen at that time.




Deng of the benefactor who is said to Shenzhen people, "There was no Shenzhen now without Deng Xiaoping", visited Shenzhen in 1992. Deng's dolls are displayed at the Shenzhen Museum ......


The hotel which I stayed at that time is still being saved.


Things given to Shenzhen were "technology" "knowledge" and "window opened to the outside world".


The successful story of Shenzhen will be a model for Chinese regional cities still left out of development.


"Deng expressed the economic policy as" crossing the river while exploring migrating stones. "Shenzhen was a stone necessary to cross the river," says the director of the Shenzhen Museum.