{"id":476440,"date":"2026-05-09T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476440\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:05:14","slug":"chinas-huaqiangbei-bets-on-ai-innovations-to-revive-global-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/476440\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Huaqiangbei bets on AI innovations to revive global appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huaqiangbei, home to the world\u2019s largest electronics marketplace in southern China\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3352367\/shenzhens-retail-sales-flatline-export-boom-fails-benefit-residents?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tech hub Shenzhen<\/a>, is reinventing itself as the world\u2019s artificial intelligence showroom, drawing back foreign traders and tourists hunting for the latest gadgets.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For first-time visitors like Abigail Slagveer from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the sheer scale of Huaqiangbei\u2019s electronics market is overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI came here one and a half hours ago through that front door,\u201d she said, pointing to an entrance just a few metres away on the first floor of Huaqiang Electronics World, one of the major malls in the district. \u201cI\u2019m still stuck here [in the first few stalls].\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Slagveer, scouting for gadgets to sell on her online store, had just spent half an hour at the stall of Red Hoho AI, where a shop assistant surnamed Kurmanjan demonstrated air drum kits and AI-powered educational robots in English. Manager Tina Liu stepped in, stressing that by owning the factory behind the products, they could offer the best price.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">International buyers like Slagveer have been returning in greater numbers over the past year, with trade fair seasons busiest for Huaqiangbei, according to Kurmanjan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Huaqiangbei hosted 850,000 visitors daily during the Labour Day holiday, including 8,000 foreign buyers per day, according to official data. Photo: Iris Deng\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/9606fedc-2f7e-49c6-b619-079278dd17f8_ba2600ce.jpg\" title=\"Huaqiangbei hosted 850,000 visitors daily during the Labour Day holiday, including 8,000 foreign buyers per day, according to official data. Photo: Iris Deng\"\/>Huaqiangbei hosted 850,000 visitors daily during the Labour Day holiday, including 8,000 foreign buyers per day, according to official data. Photo: Iris Deng<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huaqiangbei, home to the world\u2019s largest electronics marketplace in southern China\u2019s tech hub Shenzhen, is reinventing itself as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[208702,291,289,290,86222,381,111787,18,208704,208707,7093,19,17,208703,208705,90692,208706,10522,82,42952],"class_list":{"0":"post-476440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-abigail-slagveer","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-canton-fair","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-dji","15":"tag-eire","16":"tag-huaqiang-electronics-world","17":"tag-huaqiangbei","18":"tag-huawei-technologies","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-kurmanjan","22":"tag-red-hoho-ai","23":"tag-rotterdam","24":"tag-seg-e-mart","25":"tag-shenzhen","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-tencent-holdings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116545004167872303","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}