SHENZHEN REPORT ZJU - SFU Dual Degree Program IT Factory Survey July 22 , 2016 - July 27, 2016 Shenzhen, Guangdong Province China Contents Introduction to Shenzhen How does the old fishing town become one of the most renowed global major metropolis of finance and technology? p.4 Oracle Research & Development Center Co., Preface Ltd (Shenzhen Branch) Eighth floor, Gaoxin South 1st Road, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China Before starting the IT Survey Report, we Shenzhen Visit TP-Link Technologies Co,. Ltd. p.6 Group of Computing Science Dual Degree Program of Zheji- 相册 Fifth South Building, Keyuan Road, ang University would like to thank Oracle Research & De- Nanshan District, Shenzhen, velopment Center Co.,Ltd. (Shenzhen Branch) and TP-LINK Guangdong, China Technologies Co., Ltd. for letting us come visit the respective companies. We are happy to have a chance to get in touch with many aspects from what we surveyed. Through our p.14 talks and oberservations with the staffs of the respective companies, we gained great knowledges about almost every Conclusion relevant things that surrounds the companies. It has been Summary of our survey Comparison between two companies a very resourceful seven journey in Shenzhen for us, and we ED What are some influences we receive through out are looking forward to visit back again and use what we have seven-day journey? What is our next step? learned from our researches to excel all of our best in the future co-ops we get to work on. p.20 A brief introduction to SHENZHEN The city is home to the Shenzhen Stock Starting from a High-Techonology The presences of big tech companies in Exchange as well as the headquarters of numer- Shenzhen indeed provides great opportunities to fishing port... ous high-tech companies. It also has one of the Industrial Park computing science students from mainland and busiest container ports in the world. The living outside the world to hone their skills and create standard in Shenzhen has greatly improved Shenzhen is a modernized metropolis high tech products. To us computing science stu- during the ascension. at the heart of the technology manufacturing One of the notable aspects that make dents, we are curious to discover more about this hub of China and the world – the Pearl River Shenzhen a fast growing economical hub is the metropolis, to know some big computer technol- The city has big parks and shopping malls Delta (PRD). A city that just 30 years ago was high technological developments. Shenzhen gains ogy companies in the zone, and to feel what is built at the central Futian District, as well as little more than a fishing village. With the vision the title “China’s Technology Capital”. This comes like to work in one of the greatest technological having fast and convenient infrastructure with of economic reform and openinvg proposed from the city’s renowned Hi-tech Park located in development area. As the main part of the com- transportation access to cities northward and by former leader Deng Xiaoping in 1979, the the Nanshan District. Founded in 1996, the zone pany survey of ZJU-SFU Computing Science Dual Hong Kong in the south. These elements com- fishing suburb has now grown to a modernized gets its reputation through its massive and inno- Degree Program, we decided to visit the compa- bined create a strong vibrancy to this city, which conurbation of over 10 million people. With the vative production surrounding electronic devices nies of High Tech Park of the international hub of gathers many foreign workers and investors to change of city status and designation of China’s we use in daily lives. Throughout the time, the Southern China. During the six-day expedition, we live or do business there. first Special Economic Zone early in the 80s, park has attracted many global high-tech giants members, in corporation with the same Shenzhen Shenzhen has become an economic power- including IBM, Philips, Compaq, Olympus, Ep- survey group, visited two technological companies house contributed by rapid foreign investment son, Lucent, Harris and Thomson, as well as the situated in the Technological zone in Nanshan Dis- and municipal planning. Shenzhen is a major leading domestic players including Huawei, ZTE, trict: Oracle Corporation and TP-Link. This survey financial center in southern China. Lenovo, TCL, Skyworth, Greatwall and Powerise. report will give out some brief introductions and contents provided by the notes taken from the presentations shown by each company’s repre- Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company primarily specializes in developing and marketing data- base software and technology, cloud engineered systems and enterprise software products—partic- 1 Copyright © 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. ularly its own brands of database management systems. In 2011 Oracle was the second-largest soft- ware maker by revenue, after Microsoft. The company also develops and builds tools for database development and systems of middle-tier software, enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, cus- tomer relationship management (CRM) software and supply chain management (SCM) software. Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories (SDL). Ellison took inspiration from the 1970 paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database management systems (RDBMS) named “A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks.” He heard about the IBM System R database from an article in the IBM Research Journal provided by Oates. Also derived from Codd’s theories, Ellison wanted to make Oracle’s product compat- ible with System R, but failed to do so as IBM kept the error codes for their DBMS a secret. SDL changed its name to Relational Software, Inc (RSI) in 1979, then again to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982, to align itself more closely with its flagship product Oracle Database. At this stage Bob Miner served as the company’s senior programmer. In 1995, Oracle Systems Corporation changed its name to Oracle Corpo- ration, officially named Oracle, but sometimes referred to as Oracle Corporation, the name of the hold- ing company. Part of Oracle Corporation’s early success arose from using the C programming language to implement its products. This eased porting to different operating systems (most of which support C). Oracle designs, manufactures, and sells both software and hardware products, as well as of- fers services complementing them (such as financing, training, consulting, and hosting- ser vices). Many of the products have been added to Oracle’s portfolio through acquisitions. China’s Investment in Numbers Oracle China provides great ammount of opportunities to prospect in the Asia Pacific region, and also brings people from Americas to work in a different envi- 6,150 ronment. Thus, the branches in China are vastly diversed, as programmers from China, India, Japan, the United States, and other countries work and communi- cate together. Working along with the headquarters in the United States, together, the Chinese branch serves for over eleven thousands employees with their re- 11,000 nowed programmed products that fit each of their needs. The most notable brands such as Apple, Philips, Huawei, and Google are frequent users of programs made by Oracle for developing their projects. Also, the domestic branch make programs for many companies within the Mainland. Internationally, Oracle gains great sponserships for their producing the best 800 of their products. The programs are supported by Java and the servers are Oracle in China: Main Points sponsered by Sun. Those are all famous companies in the computing field. Meanwhile, the Chinese section has numerous domestic partners. Entered in 1989, Oracle’s establishment in China siginifies the second largest technology corpo- ration’s recognition of the risr of Chinese market. Becoming the first world-class software company ever settled in China, Oracle gifts many China’s major customers their relationship-based database system. that they recently developed at the time. After two years of developments from local businesses and sales services in China, Oracle took a Shenyang big leap for their to follow the pace of economic development by opening its very own co-limtied in Bei- jing in July 1991. Dalian Beijing Since the opening of the Beijing headquarters, Oracle continues to expand its range of services with additions of main service bases in Shanghai and Guangzhou since August 2000. The company also pro- Shijiazhuang Xi’an Jinan vides Oracle9i, a business platform services, and many other application softwares to support the Chinese market. Besides selling programs, Oracle also opens training and technical support programs for program- Zhengzhou Chengdu Nanjing mers in China who has interests in mastering their IT skills or taking part in the jobs. By 2001, there are Hefei Chongqing 483 Chinese workers work at Oracle. Suzhou Wuhan Shanghai Hangzhou Changsha On October 2002, Oracle established their first very own Chinese development center in Shen- Taipei Nanchang zhen’s Hi-Tech Park, marking the start of China’s participation in the future major projects imposed by the 22 Kunming corporation. Besides software development, Shenzhen branch is also responsible for doing maintainances From the entrance to Chinese market in Nanning Shenzhen for products from the Chinese customers and emphasizes production specifically for the Chinese’s needs. Guangzhou 1989 to today, Oracle established 22 offices Hong Kong Office Soon, the second development center opens in Beijing exactly one year after the Shenzhen’s opening. Research and Development in many major cities in the Mainland China. (R&D) Center Oracle also has establishments at areas Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Suzhou, and outside of the Mainland From the co-operation between the company and the nation, Oracle and the Chinese markets both Nanjing are designated as the Research and share the same perspective to the improvement and growing of China’s technology field, but in varied Developing (R&D) camp.