INNOVATION HUB · Guangdong, China
Shenzhen Tech Tour
The hardware capital — EV and battery gigafactories, robotics, 3D printing, internet and AI, medical devices, and low-altitude drone logistics.
Shenzhen is China's prototype-to-production engine and the densest hardware-innovation cluster in the world. A Shenzhen company visit puts your delegation inside the places where that cluster actually runs: new-energy vehicle and battery manufacturing at gigafactory scale; robotics lines and the supplier circle that makes them buildable; 3D-printing and consumer-electronics production selling into export markets; internet and AI groups; medical-device manufacturing; and low-altitude drone logistics already flying industrial routes. What a company visit buys is not a view from a coach window: it is a scheduled session inside an operating site, with the company team in the room, arranged in advance through the host. Most delegations run two to four stops across two to three days.
Priced by group, not per person. Best fit: 10–20 participants; individuals and smaller groups may inquire.
COMPANIES ON THIS ROUTE
Featured company visits
32 visit-ready programs in Shenzhen. Each includes a facility tour, a live demo or line experience, and a themed dialogue with the company team.
BYD Factory Tour
Walk the 'mother-machine' super plant behind the world's top new-energy-vehicle maker, and the vertical integration that carries its overseas push — batteries, motors, electronics and semiconductors developed and made in-house. A field read on how one Chinese manufacturer scaled a single production system across 70-plus countries, and what the delegation itinerary looks like on the day.
View program & itinerary →02BYD Company Visit — HQ & Tech Hall
The bookable programme at BYD's Pingshan headquarters and the museum in its original 1995 Longgang workshop: the technology hall behind the Blade Battery and megawatt charging, the museum walk, and the manufacturing-and-supply-chain discussion. Learn how batteries, vehicle platforms, driver assistance and manufacturing are held together inside one company.
View program & itinerary →03Tencent HQ & AI Visit
A one-day programme at Tencent's Binhai headquarters in Shenzhen: a technology exhibition, thematic sharing and a business exchange, structured around how one of China's largest internet groups connects technology, products and operations — and what its approach to AI agents and frontier research means for your own teams.
View program & itinerary →04Bambu Lab Shenzhen Tour
Map the Shenzhen supply chain behind a 3D-printing breakout brand. Founded in late 2020 by five engineers who left DJI, Bambu Lab took the top share of the entry-level 3D-printer market in 2025, sells into more than sixty countries with most revenue overseas, and runs a model community above ten million monthly active users.
View program & itinerary →05OPPO Company Visit, Dongguan
A one-day programme at OPPO's Binhai Bay campus in Dongguan, about 40 minutes from Shenzhen. The visit connects three parts of a consumer-technology business: the corporate exhibition hall, an SMT manufacturing line and the sports and health laboratory, followed by themed business sharing with the company team.
View program & itinerary →06Sunwoda Company Visit
Inside one of China's largest lithium-ion battery makers: the Shenzhen smart-park showroom, a 3C smart-manufacturing line, and expert-led sessions on digitalisation and battery production. The value is not the machinery — it is seeing how one manufacturer holds quality and efficiency steady across consumer batteries, power batteries and energy storage at the same time.
View program & itinerary →07Mindray Medical Visit
How China's largest medical-device maker turned overseas into its first revenue source. Overseas sales reached 53 percent of the total and passed the domestic market for the first time, with Europe growing 17 percent and emerging markets close to 30. Built for healthcare and medtech delegations studying how a Chinese manufacturer goes global.
View program & itinerary →08FengYi Drone Logistics Visit
The drone-logistics arm of SF Express runs China's first air-ground integrated logistics hub, in Shenzhen's Bao'an District — a national demonstration site where conventional logistics meets cargo drones. Delegations see the operation centre and how the low-altitude economy became a working urban logistics network rather than a concept.
View program & itinerary →09Shenzhen Robotics Valley Tour
A compressed, walkable map of China's robot value chain: an exhibition floor covering the full loop from core components and whole-machine research to real-world deployment, backed by the cluster's own supplier base. The fastest way to see where Chinese robotics actually stands, and how the 200-plus companies around it fit together.
View program & itinerary →10Shenzhen Humanoid Robotics Deep-Dive
Everyone names Hangzhou for humanoids; the supply chain that makes them buildable sits a thousand kilometres south. A two-day, five-stop field itinerary across Shenzhen's humanoid and component leaders — UBTECH, EngineAI, Dobot, PaXini, LimX, AI2Robotics, AIRS and the Valley — inside the half-hour supply circle that turns a prototype into a shippable unit.
View program & itinerary →11iFLYTEK Company Visit
A half-day programme: an AI exhibition-hall tour plus a Spark large-model briefing, tracing how iFLYTEK moved from speech recognition and human-computer interaction to large language models and industry solutions. Arrangeable in six cities — Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Hefei.
View program & itinerary →12UBTech Humanoid Robot Visit
Inside the Shenzhen headquarters behind the Walker series — the humanoid platform that has travelled furthest in China from laboratory demonstration towards industrial deployment. The programme covers the research laboratory, the technology exhibition centre, the servo-actuator and motion-control test areas and the AI interaction zone, plus a session on the commercial path.
View program & itinerary →13Huawei Headquarters Visit
Two exhibition centres the company uses to explain its own technology stack: the HarmonyOS Ecosystem Innovation Centre, built around the operating system, and the Kunpeng Industry Source Innovation Centre, built around compute — processors, servers and the open-source software beneath them. Showroom exhibits, briefings and management discussion rather than a production line.
View program & itinerary →14Anker Innovations Headquarters Visit
The Shenzhen base of a consumer-electronics company that sells almost entirely outside China: the product showcase, the global test laboratory and the brand organisation behind Anker, soundcore, eufy and Nebula. A working model of how a marketplace seller became a brand overseas buyers ask for by name — a headquarters, not a factory line.
View program & itinerary →15BGI Genomics Visit
Sequencing halls read from the fifth-floor viewing corridor, the SIRO localised-laboratory model now running in 1,400 joint labs, and the iGeneT Pro and ChatGeneT platforms behind the reports. Built for healthcare, diagnostics and life-science delegations studying how a Chinese genomics group turned sequencing into a national clinical service.
View program & itinerary →16Lumos Robotics Visit in Shenzhen and Suzhou for Business Delegations
A two-hour Lumos Robotics visit in Shenzhen or Suzhou for business and institutional groups: company briefing, R&D lab and production workshop, and a technical Q&A on embodied AI robots. Ideal group size is 10 to 20, priced per group.
View program & itinerary →17Mindray Medical Visit in Shenzhen: Medical Devices and Smart Healthcare
A Mindray medical visit in Shenzhen covers the exhibition hall, a research or manufacturing area and a session with the company's R&D and overseas teams — a half day for healthcare and medtech delegations.
View program & itinerary →18Standard Robots Company Visit in Shenzhen for Business Delegations
A three-hour Standard Robots visit in Shenzhen for business and institutional groups: culture area, core product showroom and a technical session on industrial AMRs. Ideal group size is 10 to 20, priced per group.
View program & itinerary →19HIGH GREAT EVTOL Visit in Shenzhen: Drone Formation and Low-Altitude Economy
Arrange a HIGH GREAT company visit in Shenzhen to explore drone formation technology, from outdoor and indoor fleets to education and low-altitude monitoring, with exhibition halls, a live demonstration and a company briefing.
View program & itinerary →20Han's Laser Visit in Shenzhen: The Machines Behind AI Boards
Arrange a Han's Laser visit in Shenzhen: PCB equipment up more than 70 per cent on AI infrastructure demand, the 2025 results, why profit fell while revenue rose, 3D printing of copper, the component strategy, and where overseas demand is moving.
View program & itinerary →21SF Express Visit in Shenzhen: Inside the Network That Moves 16.7 Billion Parcels a Year
Arrange an SF Holding visit in Shenzhen: 16.7 billion parcels in 2025, revenue past 300 billion yuan, Asia's largest freighter fleet and the Ezhou air cargo hub, 95 countries served, and nearly 3,000 unmanned delivery vehicles in operation.
View program & itinerary →22Transsion Visit in Shenzhen: How a Chinese Company Took 53% of Africa
Arrange a Transsion visit in Shenzhen: TECNO, itel and Infinix, a 53.1 per cent share of African handset sales, the 2025 profit collapse, the 2026 recovery built on price, the Hong Kong listing and the AI spend, and the cash and inventory behind it.
View program & itinerary →23Baidu Visit in Shenzhen: Apollo Robotaxi, the AI Showroom and a Company Mid-Transition
Arrange a Baidu visit in Shenzhen to examine a company replacing a shrinking advertising business with AI: the AI showroom, the Apollo Go robotaxi service in the one Chinese city with driverless rules in law, and the 2026 results behind the transition.
View program & itinerary →24Bao'an Low-Altitude Economy Centre eVTOL Tour in Shenzhen: Inside a District Industry Platform
Arrange a Bao'an low-altitude economy visit in Shenzhen to see how a district government builds an industry platform, with exhibition floors, flight simulation, enterprise space and a briefing with industry specialists.
View program & itinerary →25Dobot Robotics tour in Shenzhen: Collaborative Robots and Atom
Arrange a DOBOT Robotics company visit in Shenzhen to explore collaborative robots, from desktop units to 30 kg industrial arms, with an exhibition hall visit, demonstrations and a company briefing.
View program & itinerary →26ENGINEAI robotics Company Visit in Shenzhen: Humanoid Robots Tour
Arrange an ENGINEAI company visit in Shenzhen to explore humanoid robots, including the full-size T800 and lightweight PM01, with a technology showcase, demonstrations and a company briefing.
View program & itinerary →27Intellifusion Company Visit in Shenzhen: AI Inference Chips
Arrange an Intellifusion company visit in Shenzhen to explore AI inference chips, from edge and cloud families to embodied intelligence, with an exhibition hall visit, demonstrations and a company briefing.
View program & itinerary →28PaXini Robot tour in Shenzhen: Tactile Sensing, Dexterous Hands and the Data Behind Manipulation
Arrange a PaXini visit in Shenzhen to examine tactile sensing for robotics: the sensor laboratory, dexterous hand assembly, the electromagnetic sensing route, the data factories, and the honest questions about ownership and market size.
View program & itinerary →29Pudu Robot Visit in Shenzhen: Service Robots at Scale
Arrange a PUDU company visit in Shenzhen to explore commercial service robots, from delivery and cleaning machines to industrial and humanoid robots, with an exhibition hall visit, demonstrations and a company briefing.
View program & itinerary →30SenseTime Visit in Shenzhen: AI Models, the Token Factory and Commercialisation
Arrange a SenseTime visit in Shenzhen to examine how an AI company converts models into recurring revenue: the AI showroom, SenseNova U1 and the NEO-Unify architecture, the Token Factory, and the 2026 results behind the group's first profit.
View program & itinerary →31TCL CSOT Company Visit in Shenzhen: Display Manufacturing, Printed OLED and Factory AI
Arrange a TCL CSOT company visit in Shenzhen to see display manufacturing at scale: the exhibition and museum halls, the intelligent manufacturing factory and laboratory, printed OLED from the Wuhan line to the Guangzhou project, and factory AI in daily use.
View program & itinerary →32Tencent Company Visit in Shenzhen: AI, Big Data and Digital Business
Arrange a Tencent company visit in Shenzhen for a structured introduction to technology, products, digital business and innovation. The sample program includes an exhibition visit, thematic sharing and business exchange.
View program & itinerary →HOW IT RUNS
How a tour here runs
The hardware capital of the Greater Bay Area, where gigafactories, robotics lines, medtech plants and low-altitude logistics hubs sit within a short drive of one another — which is why a single day on site can cover two to four stops without a long transfer. What you walk into is rarely a showroom alone: vehicle and battery lines, robotics production floors, 3D-printing or consumer-electronics lines building for export, medical-device plants, or drone-logistics operations already flying industrial routes. Where a host runs both a headquarters programme and a production-side one, the two are separate arrangements that can be combined in one itinerary. Sessions run in English with interpretation on site.
WHO IT'S FOR
Who this tour is for
EV, robotics, consumer-electronics and medtech delegations; hardware and supply-chain teams benchmarking the world's densest manufacturing cluster; and investors assessing the Greater Bay Area. Programs run 2–4 days and combine smoothly with Guangzhou in a Greater Bay Area route. More specifically, a Shenzhen company visit tends to suit four groups. Manufacturing and operations leaders come for the line itself: automation levels, cycle time, how a supplier is qualified and what happens inside the quality system when a defect is found. Supply-chain and procurement teams come for the half-hour supply circle that lets a Shenzhen hardware company prototype in days rather than quarters. Product, brand and strategy teams come for the category logic: why a company entered a particular market, how it priced the entry, and how it moved from contract manufacturing to a brand overseas buyers ask for by name. Investors and analysts come to judge the distance between a demonstration and a paid deployment — a question far easier to answer standing on the site than reading a prospectus. Delegations typically number 10 or more, and mixed groups of engineers, commercial leads and senior management work well because the sessions run long enough to split the questions.
GOOD TO KNOW
Frequently asked questions
What companies can I visit on a Shenzhen company visit?
Shenzhen programmes span EVs and batteries, humanoid robotics, consumer electronics and 3D printing, internet and AI, medtech, and low-altitude drone logistics. Each programme includes a facility or showroom tour, a live demonstration or line experience, and a themed dialogue with the company team.
What is the difference between a company visit and a factory tour in Shenzhen?
A factory tour is about the line: the equipment, the cycle time, the throughput. A company visit is broader and is usually what a senior delegation needs — an exhibition hall that frames the business, a production or laboratory element where the work is visible, and a seated session with the company's engineering, manufacturing or overseas team. Many Shenzhen hosts offer only the headquarters format, which is why a company visit can often be arranged where a plant tour cannot.
How do I arrange a company visit in Shenzhen?
Please contact us at least 30 days before your preferred visit date; the minimum group size is 10 participants. These are our service terms for organising an international business delegation. Dates are confirmed by the host against its own operating calendar, so the earlier a date is requested the better. Tell us your sector, the companies you want to see and the questions your team brought, and we will come back with a workable sequence.
How long does a Shenzhen company visit take, and how many fit in one day?
A standard module runs about half a day per site. Most delegations do two to four company visits across two to three days, which leaves room for travel between Shenzhen's districts and for sessions to run long when the questions are good. Single-site programmes suit teams with a narrow brief; full-day hosted formats are available at some venues.
Who is a Shenzhen company visit for?
Manufacturing and operations leaders come for the line and the quality system. Supply-chain and procurement teams come for the half-hour supply circle that lets Shenzhen hardware companies prototype in days. Product, brand and strategy teams come for the category logic. Investors and analysts come to judge the distance between a demonstration and a paid deployment. Mixed groups of 10 or more work well.
Where are the visits held, and how do we move between them?
Programme sites are spread across the city and into neighbouring Dongguan, so a single day can mix districts that look close on a map but are not. Some programmes run at a headquarters or exhibition centre inside Shenzhen; others sit at a production base in an outer district or across the boundary in Dongguan, about 40 minutes away. Transfers between sites are arranged as part of the itinerary, because distances across the city are longer than they look.
Can a Shenzhen company visit be run in English?
Yes. Sessions run in English, with interpretation on site. The themed dialogue is the part that matters most, so the format is built around your delegation being able to question the company team directly rather than listen to a scripted presentation. Written materials are usually in Chinese; we handle translation for the sessions and any pre-reading.
Can we combine Shenzhen with other cities in one China itinerary?
Yes, and most Greater Bay Area delegations do. Shenzhen pairs naturally with [Guangzhou](/guangzhou-tech-tour) — Guangzhou for automotive and mobility, Shenzhen for electronics, robotics, EV and medtech — and with [Dongguan](/insights/oppo-glocal) for consumer-electronics manufacturing on the city's doorstep. Longer programmes typically add Shanghai or Beijing. The binding constraint is usually host calendars rather than travel time, which is another reason to plan at least 30 days ahead.
Ready to plan your China innovation tour?
Tell us your dates, the size of your delegation and what you want to see. We arrange the introduction, the scheduling on the Chinese side and English interpretation on site.