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ETKG is located in what used to be a farming village near GuangZhou. Now it's considered to be in GuangZhou, although, as you can see, the streets retain their rural feel.
This is one of ETKG's shops. David Zhou has grown so large over the last 13 years that he has rented just about every available space in his area. Some garages have a single CNC station in them.
ETKG goes through 115 tons of aluminum per year.
This is York Du of Original, which makes "CD players and only CD players."
York is holding his 1959 Tecsun Hi-Fi Sound tube radio, having seen in the blog that I was interested in classic radios.
York got an EE, wrote software in the Army, and, from 1984–1992, developed software for IBM. In 1993, he began writing software code for DVD players, then a few years later, moved on to VCD software. In 1999, hw started writing CD code. "From DVD to VCD to CD, each step meant fewer unit sales," Du said. "We sold 60,000 DVD players per year, but in Original's entire lifetime, we've…
Du calls this conference room, "the battleground, because we argue about designs all the time. It gets pretty heated."