Dan Wang

But now Hefei is the center of China's electric vehicle industry.

And so there are several big EV makers that are headquartered there or have their operations there.

As a city, it has been growing pretty consistently.

There's a lot of Chinese first-tier cities that have not been growing quite fast anymore, but there's plenty of these second-tier cities that are growing really well.

And then I think it is always worthwhile going to Shenzhen, which is in the south, pretty close to Hong Kong.

I find Shenzhen probably the most boring city in China.

It's a lot of these big office parks.

A lot of it is meant for driving.

The city layout is actually, there's several big hubs that are connected by highways that are pretty distant from each other.

Not that much interesting culture going on.

People are there to hustle and to work.

But it is the headquarters of companies like Huawei and Tencent and DJI, a lot of China's most innovative companies.

And you can find a lot of really interesting electronics there.

And you asked for fourth cities.

So I guess the fourth one that I'll offer is Chongqing, which is also in the Southwest.

Chongqing, I've learned, is really big among the TikTok influencers.

You can see a lot of these.

Very futuristic.

Very futuristic.

Carved essentially into cliffs.