{"id":85973,"date":"2018-12-19T00:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley"},"modified":"2018-12-19T00:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T08:22:35","slug":"inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley","title":{"rendered":"Inside Shenzhen\u2019s race to outdo Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every day at around 4 p.m., the <em>creeeek criikkk<\/em> of stretched packing tape echoes through Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen\u2019s sprawling neighborhood of hardware stores. Shopkeepers package up the day\u2019s sales\u2014selfie sticks, fidget spinners, electric scooters, drones\u2014and by 5, crowds of people are on the move at the rapid pace locals call <em>Shenzhen sudu<\/em>, or \u201cShenzhen speed,\u201d carting boxes out on motorcycles, trucks, and\u2014if it\u2019s a light order\u2014zippy balance boards. From Huaqiangbei the boxes are brought to the depots of global logistics companies and loaded onto airplanes and cargo ships. In the latter case they join 24 million metric tons of container cargo going out every month from Shekou harbor\u2014literally \u201csnake\u2019s mouth,\u201d the world\u2019s third-busiest shipping port after Shanghai and Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612571\/inside-shenzhens-race-to-outdo-silicon-valley\/amp\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/612571\/inside-shenzhens-r...alley\/amp\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day at around 4 p.m., the creeeek criikkk of stretched packing tape echoes through Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen\u2019s sprawling neighborhood of hardware stores. Shopkeepers package up the day\u2019s sales\u2014selfie sticks, fidget spinners, electric scooters, drones\u2014and by 5, crowds of people are on the move at the rapid pace locals call Shenzhen sudu, or \u201cShenzhen speed,\u201d carting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}