Smart China: Start Up Revolutions

Smart China: Start Up Revolutions

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Smart China: Start Up Revolutions

Pearl Delta

Episode 3 | Discovery Channel | September 22, 2018

Asia and Australia

Design and technologies

Classification: Parental Guidance

Jordan is learning how the tech hub of Shenzhen has taken its 30 years of global manufacturing dominance and turned it into genuine, world leading innovation in hardware and robotics.

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Jordan is learning how the tech hub of Shenzhen has taken its 30 years of global manufacturing dominance and turned it into genuine, world leading innovation in hardware and robotics.

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