Shenzhen AI Technology Educational Tour

Take your scheduled flight to Shenzhen, then check into the hotel to rest, recover from the trip, and get ready for the upcoming tech immersion.

Go to Windows of the World, a theme park with small copies of many famous landmarks worldwide—the Taj Mahal, Niagara Falls, the Serengeti, the Roman Colosseum, and the Eiffel Tower included. Next, head to Huaqiangbei Commercial Shopping Area, a great place to shop for electronic items and check out the 72-story SEG Plaza, stretching from Shennan Boulevard near HuaQiangLu Station up to the Pavilion hotel.

Windows of the World

Huaqiangbei Commercial Shopping Area

Head to the Huawei Living Showroom, an immersive space where you can try Huawei’s newest inventions. It shows many smart devices—smartphones, laptops, home appliances, wearables—and has interactive displays. Test how this tech fits daily life, with smart living solutions like smart cookers and linked security systems.

Huawei foldable phones

Intelligent new energy vehicles equipped with Huawei technology

Your Journey’s Rewards:

Admire architectural copies mixing art and engineering. Find Shenzhen’s main place for electronics innovation. Use Huawei’s connected smart technologies.

Educational Focus:

What enables Huawei to maintain interoperability across diverse smart devices while ensuring user privacy?

Takeaway:

Huawei handles distributed data via a single HarmonyOS structure. Each device works as a node in the federated learning network, processing 80% of data locally to lower leakage risk a lot (Huawei Tech White Paper 2023). Cross-device checks use lattice cryptography, cutting latency to 0.2 milliseconds. This solution expands use while keeping security, setting an example for the IoT ecosystem.

Thought Challenge:

Does centralized control over device ecosystems (like Huawei’s) risk stifling third-party innovation or user customization?

Go to Dafen Oil Painting Village, the world’s center for copied oil paintings—making 60% of global art reproductions. Here you can buy Van Goghs, Monets, classical Chinese landscapes, or get a custom painting; some artists run their own galleries with original works. Then ride a self-driving minibus in Shenzhen, often seen in areas like Qianhai. These fully electric vehicles have advanced sensors and cameras to move smoothly on roads, stop at signals, avoid obstacles. There’s also a smart screen showing the route and real-time surroundings.

visiting the process of oil painting creation

Self-driving minibus

Go to the DJI Experience Center. It’s more than a showroom—it’s a place for hands-on learning, tech exploration, and sharing new ideas. It displays products, lets you test them, sells them, offers technical help, and houses the DJI RoboMaster Club and DJI STEM Education Base. Check out the RoboMaster Exhibition Hall to learn about competition spirit and AI robotics, the Drone Exhibition Hall to find out DJI's history and how drone tech has changed, and the Industry Application Showcase to see drones used in different industries. Take group aerial photos and try three hands-on activities: flying a drone, practicing with RoboMaster S1, and Avata FPV flight.

DJI's Avata 2

Your Journey’s Rewards:

Compare artistic replication versus originality. Experience autonomous public transport. Pilot DJI’s robotics in hands-on scenarios.

Educational Focus:

How do DJI’s robotics curricula bridge STEM education gaps in regions with limited access to advanced tech training?

Takeaway:

DJI’s modular learning kits (like RoboMaster EP Core) use project-based teaching. They teach kinematics and Python scripting via fun challenges. Their STEM camps are in 12,000 schools worldwide—73% of kids there go on to study engineering (DJI Edu Report 2024). Focusing on cheap, engaging tools makes robotics skills available to all, key for closing global STEM gaps.

Thought Challenge:

Should corporations like DJI bear responsibility for shaping national STEM policies, given their influence on educational tools?

Visit SenseTime, a global leader in artificial intelligence and one of China's most influential AI companies. At its Shenzhen headquarters, explore cutting-edge AI technologies applied in computer vision, smart cities, autonomous driving, and education through interactive demonstrations and real-world cases. Gain a deep understanding of China's AI development and SenseTime's pivotal industry role.

The chess robot developed by SenseTime

Visit Shenzhen Jinda Intelligent Innovation Technology AI Robotics Base. Tour the exhibition hall to explore Jinda's independently developed robots and collaborative innovations with industry partners. Observe advanced manufacturing equipment and precision testing instruments in the 25,000㎡ workshop while studying production processes. Participate in hands-on educational sessions like "Introduction to Artificial Intelligence" lectures or robotics programming workshops. Experience interactive maker lab activities including flight simulations, robot ball-grabbing challenges, and DJI RoboMaster S1 operations.

Your Journey’s Rewards:

Decipher AI’s role in urban optimization. Witness robotic manufacturing precision. Apply coding logic to physical machines.

Educational Focus:

What ethical boundaries should govern AI deployments in public surveillance, given SenseTime’s dominance in facial recognition?

Takeaway:

92% of surveillance data is made anonymous by SenseTime's "Ethical AI Framework" via federated learning nodes (SenseTime White Paper 2023). But its work with government departments has people worried about user permission rules. The system hits 99.7% accuracy in labs, yet the technical balance between precision and privacy protection remains unsolved, showing contradictions in large-scale AI governance.

Thought Challenge:

Can algorithmic transparency (e.g., open-source models) mitigate distrust in government-linked AI systems without compromising competitive advantage?

Go to the Robotic Dog Workshop at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Campus. Top university students lead it. First, take a campus tour, visiting Rocket Square, the School Motto Stone and other landmarks to learn more about the university's spirit and academic traditions. Watch "Talan," the advanced robotic dog, do real-time hard moves like crossing obstacles, running fast and backflipping. Then use the remote control to personally make the robotic dog do interactive tasks such as shaking hands and dancing.

The robot dog in the Robotic Dog Workshop

Visit the headquarters of BGI Genomics. The BGI Space - Time Center, which is the global headquarters of BGI Group, is situated in the Yantian District, Shenzhen, and it covers an area of more than 300,000 square meters. Office spaces and cutting - edge research laboratories are integrated here, including platforms for spatial omics, synthetic biology, and mass spectrometry analysis. The institution is dedicated to promoting technological breakthroughs and real-scenario applications, speeding up the era of personal genome sequencing and precision medicine. The campus combines residential, work, and ecological functions. Inside it are the Yantian Museum of Life Sciences and Life Science Lecture Hall, which conduct popular science education for the public on topics like the origin and evolution of life, the relationship between humans and nature, and human health.

Your Journey’s Rewards:

Manipulate advanced robotic locomotion. Delve into genomic big data's medical frontiers. Contrast biomechanics with molecular biology.

Educational Focus:

How does BGI's open-access genomic database (China National GeneBank) balance scientific collaboration with biosecurity risks?

Takeaway:

BGI's data-sharing method uses blockchain-level encryption. Only metadata searches (like SNP patterns) are allowed, and raw sequence downloads are not. For collaborative projects, they must be reviewed twice, by both its Ethics Board and China's Ministry of Science (BGI Policy 2024). This "sandbox" way has made 1,200 cross-border studies possible. But it's criticized because research related to the military lacks transparency, which is a tough problem for global science.

Thought Challenge:

Should gene data be treated as a communal resource (like climate data) or a sovereign asset subject to export controls?

Depart Shenzhen after breakfast. Reflect on the week's immersion in robotics, AI, and biotech ecosystems.