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Where Our China Business Tours Actually Go.

The company ecosystems we operate across, and the six cities along the innovation corridor where you meet them. This is the map behind every itinerary.

01 The network

The Company Ecosystems We Operate Across

Visits are confirmed per cohort and matched to your sector. A representative sample:

AI & deep tech

DeepSeekFrontier AI

Hangzhou lab behind the open frontier models that reset the economics of AI.

SenseTimeComputer vision

One of the world’s largest computer-vision and AI-infrastructure companies.

iFlytekSpeech AI

China’s leader in speech recognition and real-time machine translation.

UBTECH RoboticsHumanoid robotics

Shenzhen maker of humanoid and service robots, from research to retail.

HikvisionVideo & IoT

The world’s largest maker of video surveillance and machine-vision systems.

Mobility & EV

BYDEV & batteries

The world’s biggest EV manufacturer — batteries, cars, buses and rail.

NIOPremium EV

Premium electric vehicles and the battery-swap network behind them.

XPengSmart EV

Smart EVs with in-house autonomous driving and flying-car ambitions.

EHangeVTOL

Autonomous aerial vehicles — the first certified passenger eVTOL programme.

BaiduAI & autonomous

Search giant turned AI company; runs one of the largest robotaxi fleets.

Commerce & platforms

Alibaba GroupE-commerce & cloud

The commerce and cloud group behind Taobao, Tmall and Alibaba Cloud.

TencentSocial & gaming

WeChat’s parent — social, payments, gaming and a vast investment arm.

ByteDanceContent & AI

Builder of Douyin and TikTok; the reference for algorithm-driven media.

JD.comE-commerce & logistics

Retail giant famous for same-day logistics and warehouse automation.

Rednote (Xiaohongshu)Social commerce

The lifestyle community where Chinese consumers decide what to buy.

Hardware & making

HuaweiTelecom & devices

Telecom infrastructure, chips and devices — China’s flagship tech company.

DJIDrones

The world’s dominant drone maker, from consumer to industrial platforms.

OPPOSmartphones

Top-five global smartphone brand with deep imaging R&D.

COMACAerospace

China’s commercial aircraft manufacturer, builder of the C919.

seeed studioIoT hardware

Shenzhen open-hardware company powering IoT prototyping worldwide.

02 The cities

Six Stops, Each With a Reason

Shenzhen skyline, the hardware and deep-tech stop on our China business tours Hardware & deep tech

Shenzhen 深圳

The hardware capital of the world: prototype to production in days, not quarters.

  • Corporate HQ visits and R&D labs
  • Hardware accelerators and incubators
  • Electronics markets and supply-chain floors
Guangzhou at night, the trade and sourcing stop of a China business expedition Trade & sourcing

Guangzhou 广州

Trade fairs, sourcing floors and the supply chains that reach the rest of the world.

  • Supplier and factory visits
  • Sourcing sessions against your specification
  • Logistics and export infrastructure
Hong Kong harbour, the capital-markets stop on our China business tours Capital & finance

Hong Kong 香港

Capital markets, holding structures and the bridge between mainland operations and global finance.

  • Business gateway and banking sessions
  • Legal and holding-structure briefings
  • Investor and family-office networks
West Lake and the Hangzhou skyline, e-commerce stop on a China business tour E-commerce & AI

Hangzhou 杭州

Alibaba’s hometown and the livestream-commerce lab where the global e-commerce playbook is being rewritten.

  • Platform campus visits
  • Livestream and social-commerce studios
  • AI and cloud ecosystem briefings
Pudong skyline from the Bund, a China business tour city Brands & market entry

Shanghai 上海

Consumer brands, venture capital and the Free Trade Zone machinery that handles foreign market entry.

  • Government and FTZ briefings
  • Brand and retail ecosystem visits
  • B2B matchmaking with vetted partners
Beijing CBD skyline, the policy and AI stop on our China business tours Policy & AI research

Beijing 北京

Policy, frontier AI research and the institutions that set the direction of travel for everything else on this list.

  • Ministry and municipal briefings
  • AI labs and research institutions
  • HQ visits: JD.com, ByteDance and peers

03 Institutions

Doors That Open Officially

Corporate access is half the story. The other half is institutional: the offices that regulate, incentivise and approve.

Shanghai Municipal Government

The programme is officially organized in partnership with the Shanghai Municipal Government — the basis for streamlined visa access and official briefings.

Free Trade Zones

Briefings on FTZ mechanics: company setup, incentives and the practical steps of foreign market entry, from the offices that administer them.

Chambers & Trade Bodies

Sessions with chambers of commerce and industry associations that anchor the foreign business community in each city.

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Your route

Which of These Belong on Your Itinerary?

Join the scheduled route through four of these cities — or build a bespoke expedition around the ones that matter to you.

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