{"id":440399,"date":"2026-05-09T14:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440399\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:05:11","slug":"chinas-huaqiangbei-bets-on-ai-innovations-to-revive-global-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/440399\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s Huaqiangbei bets on AI innovations to revive global appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huaqiangbei, home to the world\u2019s largest electronics marketplace in southern China\u2019s 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

For first-time visitors like Abigail Slagveer from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the sheer scale of Huaqiangbei\u2019s electronics market is overwhelming.<\/p>\n

\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

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

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

\"HuaqiangbeiHuaqiangbei 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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[191834,220,218,219,53348,114,81211,191836,191839,6160,61,60,191835,191837,68940,191838,2842,80,15744],"class_list":["post-440399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-abigail-slagveer","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-canton-fair","tag-china","tag-dji","tag-huaqiang-electronics-world","tag-huaqiangbei","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kurmanjan","tag-red-hoho-ai","tag-rotterdam","tag-seg-e-mart","tag-shenzhen","tag-technology","tag-tencent-holdings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}