[Note: Read a more chronological account of Day 4 on calpolymbatrip.com]

Our fourth day in China was a “free” day. Prior to the trip I interpreted “free” to mean time to myself. Evidently it meant that we would still have an agenda (at least for the first part of the day), but would not visit any companies. This didn’t bug me at the time, but in retrospect I would have enjoyed having more time to travel on my own in each of the cities we visited. Our evenings were almost always open for our own agenda, though the cities were always different at night.

We started by taking the metro to the electronics district in Shenzhen, had a group lunch, and then were free to explore the city. As we wandered around in small groups, we saw pretty much the same thing at first: shop after shop of electronics vendors. It was a bit overwhelming, but also curiously uninteresting (at least to me). None of the wares were top quality (most of the equipment I checked out was gray market or 6 months behind the current technology) save the various high-end stereo equipment we encountered in one shop.

As we moved out of the main part of the electronics district, however, more of the city’s personality started to appear. A group of us took a 10-15 minute cab ride to a new neighborhood and stopped in a billiard hall for a few beers. Overall it was a very fun and relaxing day.

TAGS: China | MBA | Cal Poly | Shenzhen

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