Anyone in china now?

I’ll be in Houjie April 15th…whos around?

It seems to me that some bright iPhone programmer could develop a location-aware app called “Designers in China”. Designers register at Core77 and leave your GPS activated while traveling in China. You could pull up the app on your phone and see which pub or KTV lounge the design crowd is populating that night.

Just a thought…

That would be pretty hilarious!

That would be great. When I was in Hong Kong it was a revolving door of US designers coming through. Since many designer head straight into China now the number must be huge.

I’ll be in the Shenzhen area from 4/19 to 4/28 and then in HK on the weekend of the 24-25th and btw the 28th and May 3rd.

If anyone is going to be around then maybe we can have a little meet up.

That would be awesome. Sorta like foursquare for designers. I always like to play the “which brand are those guys from?” game trying to guess based on look, shoes, language, etc.

R

I have a friend over there this week and sent him the link… maybe he’ll ping you :smiley:

Cool.

Btw, my awesome powers of deduction were correct. Met the NB group last nite. It was a pretty easy call. 5 Americans, two pairs of NB, one pair of PFs and a guy with a redsox hat :slight_smile:

R

I just left DG last wednesday. (Sheraton Hotel)

I will be in Fuzhou from the 4th of april. Still deciding on a hotel though. Tip anyone?

I was there two weeks ago and stayed at the “Depo Hotel”. It was nothing spectacular but, what do you really expect in Fuzhou / Putian? All you can hope for is a good breakfast buffet and a non smoking room.

fuzhou - shangiri-la hotel.

but pronounce it like “shan-gureela” or your taximan will be doing circles for hours.

80usd per night i think, opposite concert hall and near enough to the main drag, stores and a few nice coffee bars with wifi. gym is not too bad either.

nice thread though…can we make it a keeper?

Done.

R

I agree this should be a keeper… but in the “Footwear & Softgoods” section?

Some of us non-shoe guys might not find it except when it pops-up on the home page. I wonder if there is a better way for Core77 to do this. An online calendar with names/locations so you don’t have to read the whole thread to see who is where - when. I would use it when I’m in Shenzhen or Shanghai.

I guess I figured the thread would be more specific to footwear people in China, given they would likely all be around the same places (ie. Dongguan/Houjie, or Fuzhou/Putian) or even in the same ftys…

Though I can see that others may also go to China and want to connect. The difficulty is that once it is opened-up, you also need to include other places in the world, and it would get unmanageable quickly unless there was a thread for every single country.

I think that perhaps the footwear travel is somewhat more location/interest focused, it might be best to keep it where it’s at. If enough other demand for other industries/locations, we could explore it. That or link to another service like Tripit, etc.

I’m open though if there are other ideas. My basic thought is not that footwear is particularly special, or necessarily needs to be treated differently, just that it is a more focused group with more things than in common than perhaps other ID sub-genres/travel places so treating it different is easier implemented.

R

Ha I just got back from China about two weeks ago. The brazilian bbq at the royal lagoon is a must hit spot at least once a trip. what are you working on while your there?

as an aside, have you been running into ‘worker shortage’ problems?

BBQ at Royal Lagoon is quite good. I was working on development of a new brand at a top fty in the area that also makes Adidas, Puma, Ecco, etc. Would prefer not to share the fty name, but most probably are familiar with it.

I haven’t directly been affected by the labor shortage, though did hear of the issues from the fty manager. From what I saw in not peak season, the fty was doing alright, still at about 80% capacity with 7 of 9 lines currently running (I think).

Where in China were you at? DG, I’m guessing…

R

I’ve been there a few times. The have amazing capriana’s.


I’ve noticed that the higher-end factories are doing fine while the cheaper factories lost quite a few people after Chinese New Year.

I know it’s been worse recently, but fwiw all ftys typically lose a lot of people after CNY.

R

Hi… Will be hitting Dongguan 14th April… Staying at Haiyatt Garden in Downtown DG… (NOT IN HOIUJE… yuk!)
Check out the Golden Spoon - Taiwanese restaurant - Good Clean (no oil) food.
Also Saigon in Hoiuje - Vietnamese…