"Dongguan is a popular place." Macau entrepreneur and founder of light union century Huang Shufair said. More than 20 years ago, when he was still a young man, he came to Dongguan to complete the transformation from employment to entrepreneurship. Today, the Guanglian Century founded by him, as a high-tech company providing intelligent network services for enterprises, maintains a good momentum to continue to enter the country. During the Spring Festival, Huang Shufair talked to Nandu reporters about the birthplace of Guanglian century - Dongguan, he said that the environment here is suitable for cultivating talents, the company will continue to set up a talent training center in Dongguan in the future. In addition, he mentioned in his New Year message to Dongguan that he hopes that the manufacturing industry in Dongguan will enter the era of network intelligence and complete the transformation from Dongguan manufacturing to Dongguan "smart" manufacturing.

Macau Youth Yellow Book Fair: 20 years ago, I chose Dongguan to start a business

Guanglian Century, which is known as one of the "Four Tigers of Macau" by Macao technology industry insiders, was actually founded in Dongguan. According to the introduction of founder Huang Shuzhan, Guanglian Century is a national high-tech enterprise that mainly provides one-stop intelligent network services for enterprises, and carries out planning, design, installation and 24-hour maintenance for medium and large enterprises in intelligent network services.
"It can be said that Guanglian made its fortune in Dongguan." Huang Shufair told Nandu reporters that the company continues to grow, has developed a national business to Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and other places, and the marketing center has moved to Shenzhen, and the operation and maintenance center similar to the headquarters has stayed in Dongguan.

According to reports, the operation and maintenance center is an important base for the company's network monitoring, customer consultation and research and development. At present, the company's R & D personnel, financial personnel and 80% of the company's engineers are concentrated in Dongguan, with a total of more than 100 people, which is the city with the largest distribution of employees.

The intersection between the Yellow Book Fair and Dongguan is a coincidence, and it is also the inevitability of its accurate grasp of the prospect of the city. In the early years, after graduating from a university in Taiwan, Huang Shuzhan, a young Macao man, stayed in Taiwan and worked for a Hong Kong-invested IT company. Around 2001, in response to the company's market development needs, he was expected to choose a city in Hong Kong, Macao, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan as his work place. After living in each of the above-mentioned cities for a short period of time, Huang Shuzhan was able to work in the following cities: Making choices that shaped the course of life and work for the next two decades.
"At that time, Dongguan was a manufacturing-oriented city, and Hong Kong and Taiwan investors came to set up enterprises. It is still a depression in the information industry, and the information industry in Guangzhou and Shenzhen developed relatively fast, so I think Dongguan must have a very big potential for development." Huang Shufair mentioned that in addition to optimistic about the development prospects of Dongguan in the information industry, coupled with Dongguan is located in the middle of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, convenient transportation, strong inclusiveness, work and life pressure can achieve balance and other advantages, so the choice of Dongguan.
"Dongguan is a popular place"

According to the working arrangement of the company, the Yellow Book Fair, which came to Dongguan for the first time, opened a special network line for Hong Kong and Taiwan enterprise customers who had cross-regional offices. At that time, the majority of Hong Kong and Taiwan businessmen invested and opened factories in Dongguan, and the needs of import and export trade gave enterprises a huge market for WAN services. By virtue of its own language and cultural advantages, the Yellow Book Fair quickly established its own customer group in Dongguan.
Just two years later, Huang Shufair and his partners set up Guanglian in Dongguan to provide communications services to mainland enterprises. At this point, the transformation from employment to entrepreneurship has been realized.
Huang Shufair also witnessed the urban development of Dongguan on the road of entrepreneurship. In his eyes, Dongguan has realized the transformation from chaos to governance in terms of public security and traffic. "When I first came to Dongguan, there were motorcycles everywhere, and then there was a big policy to ban motorcycles, and the security problem quickly improved. In terms of transportation construction, Dongguan's infrastructure construction is also advancing rapidly." He said that many town streets in Dongguan have their own characteristics, and each town street has its center, which makes life in Dongguan not feel crowded, and housing prices are not too high, so the life experience is generally comfortable.
"Seventy percent of the company's entrepreneurial elders are outsiders from the north and south of the Yangtze River, but everyone basically buys cars, houses, marriages and children in Dongguan, which also represents Dongguan is a popular place." 'he said.
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The pace of the Yellow Book Fair is still moving forward. He mentioned to Nandu reporter, "The colleagues who are recruited from Dongguan have the longest working years in the company, so I think the talent environment in Dongguan is suitable for cultivating talents, and Guanglian Century will continue to set up a talent training center in Dongguan in the future to transport talents to other branches in the country."