As the population of this country is big and its food culture widely diversified, food safety is a huge subject in china. As for many other topics, Hong Kong and Shenzhen are mixed together and specific rules are made up for food safety. The border from Hong Kong to Shenzhen is sensible, as the mixing of the cities must be simp […]

Chinese population is a well-known immigrating population. There are Chinese immigrants all around the world, from Europe to North America and more recently to Africa where China is taking the sweet spot of main partner from Europe. However, they do not only emigrate outside their country, au contraire, most of the population flows are happening within the country itself. The Chinese gove […]

Yesterday was our last day were we worked on our prototype. After a rocky start and some further issues along the way we were proud to present an almost functioning Peggy yesterday at the final presentations.

The coin inserted actually slid down the slide into the right slot and could therefore been withdrawn. However, due to the wiring the coin got stock at the exit of the device. Also the opt […]

In the past two weeks, we have experienced the two different systems of the one China – the system in Hong Kong and the system in Shenzhen. This blogpost will analyze the local customs concerning Social Media. We will discuss the most common used platforms, the reason for this difference and the consequences.

First, we will talk about the most common and favorite social media channe […]

Our days in China are counted and soon we will finish CHIP. Axel, Adrien and Loïc will travel around in China and Julia and Tabea will go back to Switzerland.

On the wee […]

Hong Kong and Shenzhen two cities so close but still so different
In the past owned by the British, Hong Kong went back to China in 1997. However, the city maintained a high degree of autonomy and is now a special administrative region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China. As a result this part of China acts different than the rest of the country.

Shenzhen on the other h […]

Honk Kong Science and Technology Park

We had the great opportunity to visit the Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Park that gather several enterprises, start-ups and research center in one place. O […]

Hong Kong posses a really special status within the world but also regarding Mainland China. It is clearly separated from the nearest Chinese cities, like Shenzhen, by customs. In fact, if the entrance to Hong Kong is easy and does not necessitate excessive administrative processes, a visa is mandatory to go to china. Thus a clear frontier separate Hong Kong from the mainland china. If some aspect […]

As part of the CHIC project, we are multidisciplinary students that travelled one week in Hong Kong and ten days in Shenzhen. During this trip, we had the occasion to discover the start-up and entrepreneurship environment which is also called the “Ecosystem”.

In this document, we would like to explain our vision of the makerspaces in China. More specifically, we had investigate on the diffe […]

After facing multiple initial problems we finally had an overall successful day. We dispose over three functioning PCB, a nice looking 3D Peggy model, a finished poster and an almost completed crowdfunding campaign.

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This text is an attempt to compare the touristic experience in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. The World Tourism Organization defines tourism more generally, in terms which go “beyond the common perception of tourism as being limited to holiday activity only”, as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environm […]

As the CHIC students crossed the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China onto Shenzhen, we experienced firsthand China’s online policy regarding Social Media. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google, among others, were no longer usable.
Hong Kong’s wide-ranging autonomy gives the territory the right to its own interne […]

This morning was ok, we didn’t need to rush. We just recieved few instructions and split in three teams which each had one designer . Each team went to the location by themselves. The first team went to the Museum Mplus in Cyberport, the se […]

This morning was ok, we didn’t need to rush. We just recieved few instructions and split in three teams which each had one designer . Each team went to the location by themselves. The first team went to the Museum Mplus in Cyberport, the second went in the Hong-Kong design institut ( HKDI) and the last team went in the school of creative media.

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What a last day!

Tuesday was the last day in Shenzhen, the last of this great adventure. We started the day with a couple of hours catching up on our work for border of ecologies and other blog posts and met at noon to take the metro. Some of us even used the precious time on our way to our first visit to finish their work…

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Media is defined as the means of communication used to reach a large number of people. It includes some standard means such as television and newspapers, but also some more actual ones like social media.

In this text, we will analyse how the news are treated both in Hong Kong and in Mainland China and point some differences between these two parts. To tighten the field of study, we decided to f […]

Thursday started early for some and later for others. The groups worked in different places on different tasks. The designers and most business people worked mostly at the hotel and the coffee shops around, while the engineers worked at Seeedstudio. Team Geneva rushed to Seed in the morning to make sure, the PCB in the fridge could not be damaged by anybody. They were not the only to struggle with […]

ShuQi is advancing despite all struggle.

Initially the PCB posed a lot of issues: the stencil was had missing holes, so the soldering paste could not be applied for one component. To a business person’s eye, this might not seem a big issue, since there were eight tiny stripes, but the additional four horizontal stripes at the long end were missing. This is quite serious, since this […]

After having a great time in Hong Kong visiting multiple companies, doing pitches and some sightseeing, we now concentrate on making our prototype in Shenzhen.

Unfortunately, the 3D […]

It is incredible how fast time goes by. One week in Hong Kong has already passed. The lovely tramways on the island, the narrow roads of central, the markets of Mong Kok and the good view from the University in the countryside, where we stayed seems to be far in the past already.

We all got accustomed to chopsticks, even though with some initial obstacles.

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