Looking back at 2023, Marco Morea from Italy, manager of the Bosch Shenzhen plant, a subsidiary of Bosch Group, said the company went stable, despite shrinking customer demand around the globe, and he was proud that the Shenzhen plant has produced majority of Bosch’s overall output worldwide.

Taking part in the Expats Eye Shenzhen Photo Contest for the very first time and winning a second prize in the nature category was something that pleasantly surprised John Roger Speakman, a professor from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

How do expatriates live their life and start a business in Shenzhen? What is Shenzhen like in their eyes? “The World in Shenzhen” will share with you their Shenzhen stories. This episode is about Atik Badshah Sheihk from India who practices medicine in Shenzhen. Before he settled down in Shenzhen in 2018 to work at Southern University of Science and Technology Hospital as a postdoctoral fellow and an orthopedist, Sheihk had lived in China for 18 years. He speaks highly of Shenzhen in terms of its medical technology sector. He says Shenzhen is a rapidly developing international metropolis with warm-hearted people, making it easy for expat residents to integrate into local life. He views Shenzhen as the best choice for him to live and work, as the city always has “new platforms, new opportunities and unlimited possibilities” to offer.

How do expatriates live their life and start a business in Shenzhen? What is Shenzhen like in their eyes? “The World in Shenzhen” will share with you their Shenzhen stories. This episode will follow the career development of a young Peruvian man in Shenzhen. After graduating from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, with a master’s degree in biomedicine engineering, Christian Virrueta, also known for his Chinese name Liu Bohan, took his classmates’ advise to travel south to seek employment. He arrived in Shenzhen at the beginning of 2022 and now works as an engineer at BGI. He loves his profession, and is keen on learning Chinese. He is a big fan of cycling, and has biked around Shenzhen in a year. He says Shenzhen is a special city with a large number of high-tech companies with their own strengths. “Sometimes I feel like living in two, three cities simultaneously in Shenzhen,” Virrueta said of the city’s diversity and inclusiveness.

How do expatriates live their life and start a business in Shenzhen? What is Shenzhen like in their eyes? “The World in Shenzhen” will share with you their Shenzhen stories. This episode is about the story between Belgian volunteer Ronny Verdoodt and local war veterans. He came to Shenzhen in 2009 and became a volunteer here, frequently visiting local war veterans. He founded the international volunteer organization “Love in China” in 2015. Verdoodt has helped many people over the past eight years as he has been deeply in love with the city, and the country. He aspires to do something special in Shenzhen for the local people, and aims to gather locals and expats to give back to society with love.

Over 1,000 senior executives of Fortune Global 500 companies and China’s top 500 firms, as well as foreign diplomats and representatives of foreign business associations will participate in the 2023 Global Investment Promotion Conference which will open at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center in Bao’an District tomorrow.

A week after attending the 2023 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in his home city of San Francisco in California, Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport, embarked on a 10-day tour of the U.S. freight logistics company’s Asia-Pacific subsidiaries that include a two-day stopover in Shenzhen.

How do expatriates live their life and start a business in Shenzhen? What is Shenzhen like in their eyes? “The World in Shenzhen” will share with you their Shenzhen stories. The episode will tell the story of Palgen Marc, a regulatory affairs manager from France. Marc was transferred to work in Shenzhen by the Netherlands-headquartered health technology company Philips to improve the quality of their products with technical standards. In his eyes, Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing places in the world. “Shenzhen is a young, vibrant and innovative city with lots of opportunities. It is also one of the major cities for global medical device development and manufacturing.”

How do expatriates live their life and start a business in Shenzhen? What is Shenzhen like in their eyes? “The World in Shenzhen” will share with you their Shenzhen stories. This episode is about American entrepreneur Ray Oswal’s high-tech venture in Shenzhen. Having worked in the Silicon Valley in California, Oswal is entrepreneurship-minded. He first arrived in Shenzhen, dubbed China’s Silicon Valley, on a business trip for his former employer in 2019, and a year later Oswal started his own high-tech company here. His startup explores the application of disruptive technologies such as VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality) and MR (mixed reality) in education. Shenzhen is an ever growing city with a comfortable, clean environment to Oswal. “The city is full of energy and momentum to innovations.”