Vendors in this Chinese market can build a smartphone from scratch in a couple of hours. Shenzhen produces most of the world’s consumer electronics — and the Huaqiangbei district is its innovation epicentre. At the Chinese Huaqiangbei Market in Shenzhen, you can build a smartphone from scratch in a couple of hours. Spread over several floors and covering hundreds of thousands of square feet, the market is home to vendors selling the parts that make up your standard phone cameras, motherboards, frames, screens and so on. All you have to do is buy the right bits and know how to put them all together. Watch the video below to see how it works.

Shenzhen produces most of the world’s consumer electronics — and the Huaqiangbei district is its innovation epicenter: https://t.co/swVRxt76HD pic.twitter.com/3AdsZ9TwH3 — CNN International (@cnni) November 27, 2018

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