Moving an electronics in Shenzhen

Briefly about the author h4> 30 years. Occupation - radiophysicist. Specialization - Computer Electronics. The basic direction - development of electronics and embedded software. Experience - 10 years. Experience freelancing - 4 years.

Background moving h4> Long experience permanent employment formed an opinion about the futility of work for his uncle. Your design will always belong to the customer. Dividends with the development in most places do not get it. Someone will say - get another job with better conditions. Here affects geographical position.
The capital of Eastern Siberia - Irkutsk is not the best place for the development and production of electronics. Of course at a certain scale can be obtained at prices affordable microcontrollers manufacturers in China, but at the start of the work in Irkutsk introduces some complexity.
A striking example is the delivery of printed circuit boards. For example, from Novosibirsk. In some cases delivery is done by air, but through Moscow. Sometimes on the ground - truck. In both cases, the delivery takes weeks. It turns absurd situation - rapid production of printed circuit boards of up to two weeks stretched including delivery.
If you put together all the operations - production boards, purchase of components and assembly of samples - from finished files to the collected samples is an average of 3-4 weeks in the use of double-sided boards and popular accessories. Finished products because consumers still need to be sent again via Moscow.
Analyzing the above we can conclude the following: distance from major logistics centers imposes some restrictions on the possible nature of the enterprise-electronics manufacturer.
The main theses: narrow specialization, lack of competition, a loyal customer, large production volumes. That is no start-ups.

So you need to move. It remains to decide how and where. For permanent residence with family or raids here and there.

Moving to Moscow h4> It just so happened that everything in Russia go to white stone. Himself repeatedly been on mission in Moscow, plus a lot of stories and acquaintances. Help determine the choice helped the case. Customer on an earlier draft invited to work on the road in Moscow. Fast charges and I'm already in Domodedovo.

Further information on prices and terms provided for further quantitative and qualitative comparison of the cost and timing of the project in Moscow and Shenzhen.

Priority spending - to get to the place. Irkutsk-ticket Domodedovo value at the time of writing of 11,500 rubles plus aeroexpress 400. Further rental housing. Variants of hostels were not even considered. Rent an apartment near metro 40,000 rubles plus a security deposit of one month and the associated costs.

Action Plan - discuss device design diagram draw fee. Ready files in production and at the same time the order of components for samples and series.

PCB production - a lot of sites from two days to two-sided board. We order two boards first version cost 8,000 rubles. Accessories - model found from past projects. Transistors suitable to, had to pick up 2 days. Downloads vtridorogo in Chip Dipe. The second prototype PCB cost 4,500 rubles. A nice bonus was the second free charge. To keep within two days had to go in Zelenograd.

Moving to Shenzhen h4>
 Development took its course and start selecting contract manufacturers. Placing an order in Moscow turned out to make the project unprofitable, so decided to move to China.

The first thing you need to get visas. In the network presented a large number of specialized firms. Ability to design a variety of options for a visa. For continuous operation the optimal design of reusable seen M60 visa valid for one year with a period of stay up to 60 days. The cost of 12,800 rubles, clearance of 5 days.

Shenzhen borders Hong Kong. The most convenient flight to Hong Kong is seen with subsequent transfer to Shenzhen. Ticket from Moscow to Hong Kong 9000 rubles. Transfer - vans by 150 yuan (about 900 rubles) to Shenzhen Bay. Further public transport or taxi. All further price in RMB. Rate at the time of publication of 5, 88 rubles 1 yuan.

Upon arrival in China the number-one local sim card with 3G / LTE and unlimited internet. I bought China Unicom with a rate of 76 yuan (about 450 rubles) per month - 300 minutes of local calls and 800MB internet. China Telecom 3G understands under CDMA, respectively, that option is no good. As I understand it in China just two mobile operators with a normal 3G. Next in bing.com looking baidu navigator and install.

Smartphone with internet navigation and simplifies moving around. Without knowledge of the language can be shown in the navigator route taxi driver enabled route guidance. Plus, you can always choose options on public transport and taxis.

A single word about the subway. Quiet, cool, working relationship.

In all public transport stops ads, charts and labels are duplicated in English.

Accommodation is to book a week in advance, for example on booking.com. Better a week or two. This time is sufficient to find an apartment or hotel. The cost of the hotel from 100 yuan (about 600 rubles) in a good location. Some months living in a hotel in downtown'e 3,500 yuan (~ 21,000 rubles) a month. If you rent an apartment options available from 1,000 yuan (~ 6000 rubles) for 1 bed room in Bao'an near factories to 4,200 yuan (~ 25,000 rubles) in Shekou with sea views. Accordingly, more expensive apartments. Everywhere contract for a year and two months deposit.

We rented an apartment with a translator, but I concluded that it is possible and without an interpreter. Firstly, a lot of apartments stands empty, and secondly, you can haggle on the calculator. Plus helps online translator, again with smartphone bezlimita important thing.

The first step is to determine the place of rental. Our version - Bao'an - plenty of factories in which you can organize full production cycle. Then just go to the vending house, looking for property management or local realtors and negotiate. Many house managements have their own apartments, which will show you immediately.

Approximate view from the roof in Bao'an. Yes factory dormitory ... Exceptional day - all able inflated, ordinary days the mountains on the horizon is quite.

Internet from 200 yuan per month, if you take the contract for a year - on the stock given two phone sim cards. Utility bills 2 yuan (about 12 rubles) for a square, plus water, gas and electricity are metered.

If the purpose of a lot of work and go to the factories should buy a moped. Very comfortable to ride locally Factory locate and monitor orders. Cruising at 75km electric moped. On the highways can not go, so if you go away - taxi or public transportation. The next step will be renting or buying a car. To put the car on the rooms need a permanent visa. For local rights need to have visas for a stay of 3 months. Otherwise you need to make a notarized translation and every month to make a provisional license to the police.

Once the solution of the housing question, you can continue to work.

Order prototype PCB costs 800 yuan (~ 4500 rubles) for 5 pieces. Framed stencil solder paste costs 200 yuan (~ 1,200 rubles). All items are available in any amount can be purchased at Segbuy Huaqiang Rd. Prices for wholesale components Moscow, but in retail. There you can purchase any instrument - oscilloscope, soldering iron, multimeter and other. At a minimum arrangement spent 2,500 yuan (~ 15,000 rubles).

Laboratory at the hotel. First plateau payali manually directly in the hotel. Next, find the Chinese performing production and assembly of prototype boards from 2,500 yuan (~ 15,000 rubles), depending on the complexity of the week.

Subtotal h4> If you compare the opportunities to work in Moscow and Shenzhen personally my choice in favor of the latter. First, the cost of rental housing in China is low enough to rent an apartment for 1000 RMB (~ 6,000 rubles), to equip the laboratory and not worry about the money spent. Second, the production of boards and stencils 5 times cheaper than in Moscow. Third, you can buy any accessories on the market at the lowest prices. Boards and components can be ordered home delivery the next day. An ideal place for developing and debugging prototypes - the cost of housing and the production of prototypes minimum.

In the next post on the organization of serial production, lease production facilities and sales organization through AliExpress.

Thanks for your time!

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