Xia Yuanjie

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NANSHAN District’s Yuehai Subdistrict welcomed a group of over 30 expats from nearly 10 countries Saturday, who toured one of Shenzhen’s economic powerhouses.

This is the third of the Discover Nanshan series tours hosted by the Shenzhen Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, Nanshan’s talent bureau and Yuehai Subdistrict Office.

Yuehai, dubbed as China’s Silicon Valley, is home to more than 1,000 high-tech firms such as world-famous Huawei, Tencent and DJI.

For most foreign visitors, it is their first time to tour around the 23.8-square-kilometer subdistrict, learning the development of the city’s tech giants and their achievements in different fields.

At the DJI exhibition hall in OCT Harbor, the guide showed the visitors its latest drones by flying them in the hall. Expats also watched and experienced Mindray Medical’s leading devices, such as emergency aid equipment used to save lives of COVID-19 patients.

Jorg Wijnen, a Dutch nutritionist, said that although he has been living in the OCT area for eight years, he didn’t know that there is a DJI exhibition hall located in OCT Harbor. He was also fascinated by Mindray’s advanced medical machines. “My father worked in a hospital,” he said. “He is an ECG (electrocardiograph) analyst. Whenever I go to the hospital, I like watching the machines. I always want to know more about how they work.”

Deependra Tyagi is an assistant professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, who was excited to visit Mindray, which produces the devices useful to his research.

“For me in today’s trip, the most interesting one is Mindray, because it is related to my field,” he said.

Vincent Fernandes, an Indian businessman, who has been in Shenzhen for 19 years, regarded the trip as “a lesson to learn more about Shenzhen’s leading companies.”

Congolese student Alidor Ntita, an international trade and economics major at Shenzhen University, is looking forward to landing a job in one of Yuehai’s enterprises. “I have discovered so many things, and got more knowledge [about the high-tech companies],” he said.