Happy Chinese New Year!
An inspiring journey across Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hong Kong — and I was still buzzing from the sheer scale of AI innovation unfolding across these cities.
Everywhere I went, AI wasn’t just a tool. It’s a collaborator. For investors, Shenzhen is no longer just a manufacturing hub. It is becoming a laboratory for AI‑native economies, where data is treated as a production factor and financial systems are rebuilt around automation, interoperability, and real‑time intelligence.
Four Shenzhen‑based companies — Unilumin, SF Technology, Tencent, and GAC Group — illustrate how this transformation is taking shape. The no driver taxi, the AI-enabled logistic hubs like ShunFeng technology, one of the six major data centres, the headquarter of Tencent and the largest LED chip manufacturer in Shenzhen — the same company behind the ABBA virtual concert screens. This trip provided me fresh eyes.
My China trip revealed extraordinary innovation at every turn: from Tencent’s AI‑driven ventures and cutting-edge tech enterprises reshaping entire industries, to Chengdu – a vibrant consumer powerhouse and home to the iconic Panda Park ecosystem – and onward to Hong Kong, the global financial and capital hub and top IPO fundraising platform.
In Hong Kong, I experienced art creativity coming to life, especially looking ahead to AI-powered Hong Kong Arts Month 2026, where upcoming promotions will focus even more on cross‑industry audiences.
Yet, how innovation thrives at the intersection of tradition and future. This trip reinforced how deeply UK, HK–China exchange can unlock collaboration, ideas, and possibility without borders.
Tech art isn’t “digital decor” here — it’s a living, breathing part of daily life. Luxury living isn’t just what you own — it’s how you live at the edge of what’s possible. Grateful for the insights, connections, and vision witnessed on this trip. Excited to translate this energy into new collaborations in the year ahead.
Join me on my next journey, where we’ll enjoy priority access to West Kowloon exhibitions and private previews, including AI‑curated art and tech collaborations across the West Kowloon Cultural District museums — M+ and the Hong Kong Palace Museum.
You’ll also experience exclusive residency and short‑stay luxury privileges at West Kowloon’s high-end residences, plus access to 2026 cross-border UK–China innovation networking with investors, creators, and tech leaders.
Let me open up the world of China to you. Wishing you a year of extraordinary prosperity and momentum. May the Year of the Horse gallop in boundless success for you and your business.
马年有福，恭喜发财！
Eva@Evassential