Walking Through a Big Electronic Component Market in China

For everyone designing electronic circuits. I recorded this when visiting Shenzhen.
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[@RobertFeranec]

I forgot how exactly this was called. If you know, please leave it in comments. Thank you.

[@psychoja]

HuaQiangBei (华强北) most likely.

[@noahgottesla3439]

haha huaqiang bei definitely

[@noahgottesla3439]

Come here finding your magic component right?

[@BaoZiChen]

Huqqiangbei, this is the source of all the fake and shoddy products over the world , i guess

[@Jindraxx20]

This is PARADISE !!!

[@yogeshroy9289]

Yess... exactly

[@DLSDKING]

This place looks like a paradise for electronics engineers. I am gonna be there someday soon.

[@iceberg789]

someday !

[@Stabby666]

I was in exactly that place a few years back when I went on a tour of various PCB factories for our tech startup 😁 There are little stores that just sell one kind of thing - like USB cables only, or a type of switch. I think they get excess stock from factories at clearance prices. Shenzhen looks like Bladerunner at night with all the animated LEDs on the buildings and lasers pointing into the sky…

[@RobertFeranec]

I loved it there!

[@steffenbendel6031]

And and the Chinese people make it look like blade runner too. :-)

[@ttcitron]

Very nice! Reminds me of my youth in the 80s. Had a simmilar thing in Munich, the famous "Radio Rim". It was like a super market for electronic components back then. And at that time there were about 8 smaller stores in my hometown Augsburg that selled electronic components, too. But all of that is now long gone. I guess it got allreplaced by internet resellers.

[@paugasolina5048]

Incredible. Nothing like that in europe

[@UCt6PXDm-iFNvvc6t5r1YCgQ]

This is Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, China. I buy electronic components from here when making PCBs. The prices are very cheap, and you can also find unpopular chips.

[@pnitschke1]

Do you have a contact there that you can share? Which "shop" are you buying your most parts from?

[@shabuzhossen182]

i am from bangladesh..and in 2024, i will go on this market for buy my company PCB Component..

[@LiveEnjoyment]

If you ever wonder where those last 7 components on digikey went...

[@RobertFeranec]

:D

[@Andrew-dp5kf]

OMG you lucky thing!!! So envious!! You need Bunnie’s point to talk book in there

[@anvyfpv]

In Italy we do the same for food! But you can have a free sample :D

[@xyzzy42]

As cool as this looks, I think I'd rather search the Mouser catalog than wander though here and ask like 100 shop keepers if they have a suitable part.

[@borisivankovic4550]

I've always wondered what the store from which I order electronics from AliExpress looks like

[@DejanMarkovic93]

Me too! 😂

[@RobertFeranec]

:D

[@lavacat720]

It's just a warehouse and some people grab some stuff and give it to their parcel vehicle and your package gets kicked all the way to the post office and sent

[@DejanMarkovic93]

@@lavacat720 this guy find very early that there is no santa claus

[@lavacat720]

@@DejanMarkovic93 me or he

[@iceberg789]

3:10 like that ! special discounts on opamps in a shopping mall ! ❤

[@legend_6483]

This is amazing , you can build many projects just by shopping there

[@Chupacabras222]

How does it work? Say I need some components. Do I have to walk around all those shops and ask if they have it and ask for price everywhere to get the best price?

[@RobertFeranec]

I was thinking exactly the same when walking there ....

[@nameredacted1242]

In 20 years this will all be gone, to be replaced with catalogs and websites.

[@UCt6PXDm-iFNvvc6t5r1YCgQ]

These shops have regular customers, and this is just a place for handover between customers.

[@deterdamel7380]

Was there something like this in silicon valley in the past??

[@dean8223]

Coming to the UK very soon. I wish, Birthday and Christmas come at once.

[@zisoua]

Oh🏖, how beautiful! It would be really cool if, at the end of the trip, you could tell me where you've been and recommend some places. I want to go to China 🌏😀

[@RobertFeranec]

The main cities I visited were Shanghai, Shenzhen, Macau (not directly China, but I was in Zhuhai so decided to visit it) - loved every single one.

[@gadfay8463]

Hi! do you know any market of spare pieces of vending machine in guangzou,shenzen.....? Thanks

[@romancharak3675]

Those shop-keepers must have low overhead, or high volumes, or high margins. OR, all of the above, to make it worth their while.

[@karimazeli2653]

All my favourite brands are there!!😊

[@hichammouaddib7762]

Very clean marketplace , and more educated than here 😁👍

[@songrongzhang]

This is New Asia One. I work on the fourth floor

[@ionasiiwu815]

welcome to china! like you bro

[@vlad-cezar]

So this is the place my failed capacitors are from xD

[@RobertFeranec]

I kept thinking about how good all these components are

[@Shay_Nichol]

​@@RobertFeraneca friend pickup some GSM modules there and they were fakes so need be a little careful

[@atabac]

if they are selling electronic components like consumer goods then there must be so many small electronic design shops in china. I wonder where can they be found online? curious about what products they make that makes these shops thrive.

[@RobertFeranec]

I was thinking the same - how much they have to sell and how they do it. I should stop at some of the shops and ask ....

[@atabac]

@@RobertFeranec maybe i should start learning chinese

[@UCt6PXDm-iFNvvc6t5r1YCgQ]

I own an electronic design shop in Taobao, specializing in customizing PCBs

[@lavacat720]

Flea market with air conditioning.

[@shakirsalam8305]

Is this comparable with the original. im not sure if want low power design, is china component can use for low power component. asking for suggestion.

[@RobertFeranec]

I believe many of these components are from big assembly companies - they probably have some components left after big productions and they don't want to keep their money in stock, so they sell them. But that is only my guess ...

[@UCt6PXDm-iFNvvc6t5r1YCgQ]

You can completely trust chips from big brands

[@whitemerlin5737]

Some are original but outdated products. The factories sold their leftover electronic components in whole seller market like this one.

[@enersunsolar1752]

Whats the name of this market in china?

[@TheSeeparag]

Where is this and what is it called

[@Knitwearrepublic]

I work in Huaqianbei, the biggest electronics hub in the world, I can help you find new original components

[@LittleRainGames]

God please let canada open many malls like this.

[@yogeshroy9289]

And in india too

[@IncaTrails]

What did you buy?

[@xyzernhhloh]

It should not be how many of such BIG markets (buildings) or how many floors of shops in each building. It should be how many people (customers) visit such places and actually buy the products.

[@ahmedalshalchi]

OMG ! .... Is this heaven ??!!

[@antonangka1843]

they are all selling the components online also.

[@padmakishore967]

China in which place

[@richardtang2952]

A little like Sim Lim Towers in SG🤔

[@swissmuller2326]

Market name ?

[@universeisundernoobligatio3283]

I could visit there and be lost for several days, by day 3 my wife would be giving me the look.

[@19wael96]

By 30 mins she’ll be giving the look 😂

[@swissmuller2326]

Address please

[@alifatihdemir0]

heaven 😍

[@tonysofla]

As everything gets more solidified to a few large companies, I think the wild west of going to look in person for electronics parts at a place like this is coming to an end.

[@weerobot]

Wow

[@Shubham-cu7uy]

How are the prices like for any component?

[@UCt6PXDm-iFNvvc6t5r1YCgQ]

Very cheap, the lowest price in the world

[@simrcchannel]

these place normally for B2B, these just front shops, one may only sell all kinds capacites, hundreds sell capacity only

[@firedeveloper]

What about the prices?

[@petevannuys5642]

Price range more cheap than usual and out side china ✅

[@kkp7550]

Looks dystopian and depressing

[@nameredacted1242]

How many of those people know what they are selling???

[@johnmicheal3547]

Imo only thieves and ignorant people sell things they don't care to know. Business people, knowing is part of the business. Good one won't lie to you too. Build a good relationship with the customer is important. Goods is good.

[@nameredacted1242]

@@johnmicheal3547 How naive! When you graduate high school, let me know.

[@althuelectronics5158]

DEVELPMENT TECNOLAGY

[@wowwoks]

You can buy parts to build a rocket, there is nothing China doesn't have or doesn't make. That is the electronics market in Shenzhen, China.

[@lalkahandawa8923]

It would be better you stop atleast at one shop and show the thing there clearly. Also if talked to one shop owner to find out it is wholesale or retail. And some idea of the item prices.

[@RobertFeranec]

I should

[@ingussilins6330]

Radio loriņu paradīze :)

[@aakarshana8063]

I would like to have GPT Device from China ! 💋 -Vijay,Ongole

[@aladinmovies]

This is China

[@greengreens9936]

Why does a place like this exist?

[@RobertFeranec]

If it was in our city I would definitely use it. Just not sure how easy it is to find a specific component there ...

[@nameredacted1242]

Because they have not invented the paper catalog and website lookup perhaps? Or market is too fragmented? In US, we really had the market taken up by a few components distributors, and that was it.

[@walkanywhere138]

​@@nameredacted1242you are damn smart

[@nameredacted1242]

@@walkanywhere138 Nah, same idea as with college professor, I have just been doing electronics for 26 years already. I would know, I am a professor for a side job...

[@JoseDiaz-yu2in]

Not a big deal, reminds me of San andresito in bogota

[@sillfsxa1927]

No country can compete with china in manufacturing hardware. Maybe software is where they should try their luck.

[@shwetasoftware]

Nobody noticed that it is without customers. Very bad shape of economy. Videographer has kept silence otherwise this video could not have come out.

[@psychoja]

Robert, you are in ShenZhen? Throw me a message, we could meet for a dinner :)

[@RobertFeranec]

I was there two weeks ago, currently in Europe.

[@psychoja]

@@RobertFeranec Next time record and post the video 2 weeks prior to visit :). Hope you had a great time. cheers

[@RobertFeranec]

I will try :D PS: I had great time

[@rawexploiterp6951]

ah yes chinese texas instruments

[@thekaduu]

Never should have outsourced the semiconductor manufacturing. It will be remembered as the dumbest decision US and others in Europe made for the rest of the millennium. Kind of like selling of the Alaska to the US for the last millennium :P

[@johnmicheal3547]

"Why" is the correct question to ask and follow the evidence. If your core business is selling gasoline and US making it more expensive for gasoline business, you will have to find another place to do your business. Imo the gov on purposely and secretly selling these manufacturings to china. Gov have many ways to make it harder for you to do business, so you have to move. Politicians control government and they can make deals with china to force you to go to china indirectly.

[@Shay_Nichol]

That's not even 5% of it!

[@squee222]

looks like capitalism.

[@rapsod1911]

It looks like heaven, but it is hell. How much is fake?

[@walkanywhere138]

You get what you pay for. There are many authentic options available if you're willing to invest a bit more.

[@rapsod1911]

@@walkanywhere138 It is not about "wiling to invest" as much as broken chain of supply from original manufacturers. I read somewhere that US army estimated that 10-11% of parts used by their equipment are fake. Everything that China touch turn into garbage.

[@_technitium]

Damn. Can't find a place like this in Nigeria, yet 😏🌚🤌