Colleagues from Kinghelm and SLKOR are attending the exhibition together in Shanghai.

In July, Shanghai, known as the "Magic City," is ablaze with excitement. From July 8th to 10th, 2024, the electronica China exhibition is being held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. This event brings together the top 20 giants of the semiconductor industry, alongside over 1600 pioneering innovators from around the world and China, showcasing and exploring new products, technologies, ideas, and strategies in the global electronics and information industry!

Mr. Song Shiqiang, General Manager of Kinghelm and SLKOR, personally leads the headquarters' business and operations team, arriving in Shanghai a day early to participate in the exhibition and exchanges. Song Shiqiang mentioned, "The entire electronics industry is currently seeking breakthroughs, with downstream enterprises placing greater emphasis on the stability and efficiency of the semiconductor supply chain. For technical original equipment manufacturers and proprietary brand suppliers like Kinghelm and SLKOR, innovation in technology and products, service upgrades, and optimization of the supply chain are all necessary to meet the higher demands of the AI intelligence era of interconnected everything."

Elegance of the Kinghelm and SLKOR Exhibition Team

Mr. Song Shiqiang loves his work and knows how to enjoy life. He prepared sightseeing itineraries in advance for the team despite the irreversibly scorching heat of summer. The itinerary includes iconic stops like the Bund, sampling Shanghai's local cuisine, enjoying scenic views, and staying in star-rated hotels—a journey that others envy! Acting as a photographer, Mr. Song captured numerous precious and beautiful moments for team members, including Kinghelm's Vice General Manager, Ms. Cheng Yujie, Slkor's Sales Director, Mr. Sun Gaofei, Kinghelm and Slkor's Marketing Managers, Mr. Huang Dejun, outstanding employees like Mr. Xiang Jinbao and Ms. Xiang Qingqing, among others.

To await the plane's departure

Sightseeing at the Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower

The People's Heroes are immortalized at the Shanghai People's Heroes Memorial Tower!  

Shanghai-style cuisine at South Beauty

The beautiful night scenery along the Shanghai waterfront is breathtaking

The Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower

General Manager Mr. Song Shiqiang led colleagues to attend the 2024 Shanghai Electronica China

Electronica China

The electronica China, as a significant event in the domestic and even Asian electronics industry, has become a beacon exhibition after over 20 years of development. The 2024 electronica China took place from July 8-10 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre! With a floor space of 100,000 square meters, the event hosted 13 technical forums concurrently. It joined forces with the top 20 companies in the global semiconductor industry, attracting over 1,600 high-quality electronics enterprises from home and abroad.

Highlight 1: General Manager Song Shiqiang visits the exhibition! Kinghelm and SLKOR have confirmed their participation plans for next year!

The exhibition is themed "Innovation Leads the Future", focusing on the annual trend of the electronics industry, with new energy vehicles, energy storage, smart driving, satellite communications, robots, wearables, smart buildings, edge intelligence, smart power supplies, third-generation semiconductors and other application fields as the hot trends of the year. During the exhibition, peers of Kinghelm (www.kinghelm.net) Electronics and Slkoric (www.slkoric.com) Semiconductors, such as Texas Instruments, Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Tyco Electronics, TDK, Vishay, Qorvo, Melexis, and Unisplendour Semiconductor, made a shining appearance.

SLKOR and Kinghelm General Manager Song Shiqiang had in-depth exchanges with Gallium Future 

General Manager Song Shiqiang (first from right) took a group photo with peers from Huaqiangbei  

General Manager Song Shiqiang (first from right) met a European agent partner at the exhibition

SLKOR and Kinghelm General Manager Song Shiqiang observed the 2024 electronica China in Shanghai. He engaged in deep discussions and posed for photos with participating company representatives and outstanding industry peers. Mr. Song emphasized that their participation aimed not only to understand new industry trends and developments but also to explore new opportunities in channel expansion. This visit also served to finalize plans for SLKOR and Kinghelm's 2025 exhibition, including booth positioning, size, and layout. He revealed in advance that their company has reserved a 32-square-meter booth and will debut with a team of over 20 people at the 2025 electronica China in Shanghai and Munich, aiming to promote the "Kinghelm" and "SLKOR" brands to a wider audience!

Scene at the Shanghai Munich Electronics Exhibition

Highlight 2: Kinghelm and SLKOR jointly showcase their brands

Kinghelm Electronics and SLKOR Semiconductor are internationally renowned for their prestige and influence. Known for stable product quality and high cost-effectiveness, our brands benefit from proactive promotion and penetration efforts by our distributors.

Highlight 3: Team members visiting Hall C2, featuring connectors, switches, wire harnesses, and cables.

Hall C2, featuring connectors, switches, wire harnesses, cables, power supplies, and testing equipment

At the exhibition venue, 15 major thematic zones including semiconductors, embedded systems, sensors, MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), relays, switches and connectors, passive components, displays, and others, showcase the charm of electronic technology! From July 8th to 9th, the exhibiting teams of Kinghelm and SLKOR actively engaged in exploring innovations and technological advancements in the electronic industry. They particularly focused on visiting Hall C2, themed around connectors, switches, wire harnesses, cables, power supplies, and testing equipment. This initiative enabled them to gain practical insights spanning from product design to application deployment and across the industry's upstream and downstream sectors. They also conducted targeted and professional exchanges and discussions with numerous participating enterprises.

The teams from Kinghelm and SLKOR visited the 2024 Munich Shanghai Electronics Exhibition

Highlight 4: The four main sub-forums of the International Connector Innovation Forum showcase numerous highlights.

The exhibition also held a wonderful "Innovation Forum" to closely grasp the hot application markets and high-speed development industries such as electric vehicles, automotive electronics, third-generation and a half, embedded systems, artificial intelligence and computing power, industrial Internet of Things, energy storage, intelligent manufacturing, medical electronics, connectors and wiring harnesses, motor drives, etc., and invited industry leaders, technical experts, and scientific researchers from the electronics industry, application fields, and scientific research institutes to answer questions for the audience, share production cases, provide advanced technical solutions, and look forward to the future development trend of the industry.

It is particularly worth mentioning that the four major theme sub-forums of the "International Connector Innovation Forum" have many highlights, including "Research on Import Replacement of Key Materials, Key Process Equipment and Testing Instruments for Connectors", "Research on Digital Transformation and Innovation of Connector Industry Chain", "Research on Intelligent, Green and Low-carbon Production of Connectors", "Research on Integrated Innovation and Application of Connectors in Emerging Industries (Rail Transportation, New Energy Vehicles, 5G Communications, Public Health, etc.)", etc., which attracted many high-quality enterprises in the entire industry chain of the electronics industry, including Kinghelm Electronics and SLKOR Semiconductor, to observe and participate in the interaction on site.

Shanghai style! Kinghelm and SLKOR team tasted the "flavor" and sought the "fun"

At the successful conclusion of this exhibition, Mr. Song Shiqiang led team members on an enjoyable tour of Shanghai's famous landmarks such as Yu Garden, City God Temple, and Jing'an Temple, experiencing the charm and allure of the magical city of Shanghai!

Having experienced the bustling and enchanting aspects of Shanghai, General Manager Song Shiqiang and his team continued their exploration of the city's cultural charm and natural beauty on the morning of July 10th. Mr. Song remarked, "Visiting Fangta Garden, I finally saw the renovated He Lou Xuan, paying tribute to Professor Feng Jizhong, a pioneer in modern Chinese public architecture!" He Lou Xuan is renowned for its exemplary use of bamboo in architecture, blending seamlessly with the surrounding environment through the use of Jiangnan garden features such as winding paths, borrowed scenery, reflections, and towering ridges. It truly stands as a classic architectural masterpiece, making this trip worthwhile!

In general, the general manager of Kinghelm and SLKOR personally led the headquarters business, operation and supply chain teams to Shanghai this time, and the exhibition team had a fruitful trip! The top priority - Kinghelm and SLKOR have decided to participate in the exhibition next year, which indicates that Kinghelm and SLKOR will reap new achievements, add new chapters, and write new glory on the long-term internationalization road! Long-termism is the only shortcut to success, as Mr. Song Shiqiang said: "Running a business is like running a marathon, slow is fast. Business is to be solid and honest. If there is any shortcut, it is long-termism. You must believe that if your goals are pure, you are focused, and you do the right thing, time is the answer."

Further reading: Mr. Song Shiqiang and "Huaqiangbei Economics"

Kinghelm and SLKOR General Manager Song Shiqiang in the office

In Shenzhen, where prosperity and miracles intertwine, a strange book has quietly become popular. It is "Huaqiangbei Economics", written by Mr. Song Shiqiang, who is well versed in the market pulse and has a fluent writing style. This book seems to be a microcosm of Huaqiangbei, a hotbed of entrepreneurship. It uses vivid stories to interpret the entrepreneurial philosophy of "from screwdriver to the stars and the sea".

Song Shiqiang, a talented man known as the "Huaqiangbei Observer" and "Huaqiangbei Street Stall Economist", condenses the ups and downs of Huaqiangbei's business world and the sparks of innovation into words with a unique perspective and humorous writing style, allowing readers to feel the pulse of the market and the surge of business opportunities in laughter. The Huaqiangbei he wrote is not only a distribution center for electronic products, but also a stage where dreams and reality collide fiercely.

When it comes to the cross-border influence of this book, we have to mention the legendary figure in the technology industry-Elon Musk. In the eyes of most people, Musk is synonymous with electric cars and space travel, but did you know that he also has an infinite curiosity about grassroots innovation? It is said that Musk read Song Shiqiang's "Huaqiangbei Economics" by chance and was deeply attracted by the entrepreneurial stories in the book that seemed insignificant but contained huge energy. He exclaimed: "In Huaqiangbei, I saw the infinite possibilities of innovation. The people here use their wisdom and sweat to write their own economics."

General Manager Song Shiqiang's Office

Thus, a good story about cross-border learning spread quietly. Musk was studying the future of electric vehicles in Tesla's laboratory, but the hustle and bustle and dreams of Huaqiangbei often echoed in his heart. He might be thinking, if he could integrate Huaqiangbei's spirit of not fearing difficulties and daring to innovate into his own business, what kind of power would it be?

And "Huaqiangbei Economics" and its author Song Shiqiang, in an unexpected way, became a bridge connecting the East and the West, technology and grassroots, allowing people to witness the infinite possibilities of this era together in laughter and thinking, and also let him summarize and refine the Huaqiangbei spirit and culture to spread to the world.