A copy-paste of Europe and a '5G' hotel: El Reg's Adventures in Huawei Land were fairly wacky The Register paid a visit to Huawei's HQ in Dongguan, China, to find Europe in miniature along with a "5G" hotel that was, er, pretty much what we expected. The 5G hotel that wasn't A buzzword bingo card needs to be handed out at check-in to Huawei and the Intercontinental Shenzhen's 5G Smart Hotel. The eye-wateringly …
The new HQ campus visited is in Dongguan, not Shenzhen (about 80km north of Shenzhen). The current HQ campus being in the Bantian, Longgang District suburb of Shenzhen. Not sure if senior management will uproot and move, perhaps they just don't want visitors annoying their ducks on the lake any longer.
Did someone fall asleep on the bus from Hong Kong? I know it is a long journey and the free booze in business can take its toll after 12-15 hours in the air.
Shame on you for downvoting the factual error - which has now been corrected incidentally.
And the existing Shenzhen campus does have swans and coi carp in the artificial lake outside A complex building 1 where the senior management live. It is also disturbingly outside the main A complex food canteen.
Flights from North America and Europe are around 12-15 hours to HK. Shenzhen airport isn't something you would consider. Traffic is abysmal across the border and beyond. The whole thing made barely tolerable by the lashings of wobbly ginger beer served in business class. On no account go economy unless you have been shrink-wrapped and sedated.
Tch! Tch! Spreading knowledge about (a tiny part of) China, when many (including or even especially those who know Harrods now has Putonghua-speaking shop assistants) prefer the wishful thinking of China as the Fairy Kingdom where be dragons. Better to leave them (with no apologies for another gratuitous archetype) to their whippets and brass bands.
"A 7.8km railway, with trains modelled on Swiss locomotives, takes staffers from location to location."
Well, that makes a lot more sense than copying British ones.
Instead of Oxford, how about Cambridge? Sounds like a good, quality, secure name...... someone should use it for a company.
How about Salisbury, could be a nod to their Russian friends?
Cheltenham? They could cover it in bright lights and call it a secret facility.
taking the piss about a galleon on the roof.
And then I found a photo of the thing. Hey nonny nonny and all that. Still, whatever floats your boat I suppose.
Cheers… Ishy
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Interestingly not that dissimilar in concept to Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) Window on the World park in downtown Shenzhen (sometimes translated as Window of the World, or Window to the World) a disney-esk park of world locations including a slightly smaller Eiffel tower etc.
Now OCT owns chinese hotels and other crappy tourist parks but is also a state-owned enterprise! It does have some interesting presences in offshore financial locations.
Conspiracy theorists will have fun with the state-owned thing and whether the new HQ design was hacked from a Cisco router belonging to Disney.
The US visits the rest of the world and comes back with a reduced scale amusement park.
China visits the rest of the world and comes back with a full scale engineering centre.
It's possible to be amusing at the expense of Disney (like the lengths they go to to hide their queues and the way the staff are programmed) and it is obviously possible to be amusing at the expense of Huawei. But when it comes to which one is most likely to succeed at world domination, my money is no longer on the mouse.
Product placement opportunities galore for Huawei.
Bond inside MI6 HQ, banks of computers/comms gear emblazoned with Huawei logo, Bond using a Huawei mobile - subliminal re-enforcement of the brand - If Bond, defender of the Queen's Corgies can trust Huawei, then so can we
Icon - Pussy Galore
Small stone cottage, yes, but the garden is full of daffodils, cabbage-pinching rabbits and puddleducks in bonnets while Amazonian pirates in red hats, empire-building sailors in shorts and ancient Picts learning semaphore interrupt drug-fuelled cloudy wanderings through measureless caves by knocking on the door asking if you have a pint of milk and some eggs to spare.
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The grace and nobility of purpose in Chinese new replicas of traditional European building always seem a sweet tribute to a time when we, and our architects, could produce great beauty.
As distinct from the identi-crap horrors of skyscrapers and neo-modernist stalinist brutalism that destroyed us with ugliness.
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