China’s Silicon Valley: From copycats to innovation
Programming note: “Innovate Shenzhen” will air on November 24 on CNN International at 3:30 am and 4:30 pm ET, November 25 at 6 am ET, and November 29 at 4:30 am ET.
Shenzhen, ChinaAt the Huaqiangbei Market in Shenzhen, you can build a smartphone from scratch in a couple of hours.
Spread over several floors and covering hundreds of thousands of square feet, the market is home to vendors selling the parts that make up your standard phone — cameras, motherboards, frames, screens and so on. All you have to do is buy the right bits and know how to put them all together.
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