 Hi! Hello! So who are you? My name is Damien, I work for O-Winner Technology and we're here today at our O-Winner bike. It's not officially an O-Winner bike. It is my transport to work every day. That's awesome. Okay let's go let's go inside. Okay so this is our new headquarters in Juhai. So how far do you live from here? About five minutes. Five minutes. So how many people work at the O-Winner headquarters? About 600 to 700 people. And do you work on marketing? Yeah I work in the marketing and business development department. All right. There's a lot of business to develop here right? Yeah I mean O-Winner work with a lot of partners. We work with international partners and also Chinese partners. So there's a lot of business development to be done. A lot of sort of partnership meetings and things like that. All right is it cool to work here in Juhai? It's very cool. China is a very interesting place. There's a lot going on in Juhai and in Guangzhou and Shenzhen. All right so it's an exciting time to be at O-Winner. Hey! Hi! This is Eva from O-Winner. Nice to meet you again. It's very cool to see your new building. How long time have you had this building? More than one year. More than one year. Hey! Hello! I'm a software engineer in O-Winner. I've been here for four years and nice to see you. So software engineer is a very important job right? Right. Is the most important guys? No actually all the guys in our company are important. But software is it more like a CPU is basically it's just software right? How does it work? Actually for O-Winner I think way more for our solution from the software perspective I think for some of the software engineers their job is primarily how to make the hardware run properly. And then we put the open system techniques, Android or something like that. So how many software engineers here? Maybe 200? 200 and then some hardware engineers and then already software. And there's also hardware and a lot of people? A lot of people here. So cool. How many floors do you have? We have five floors here. So as you can see this is our reception area. And if we go this way we can head into our canteen. We also have like a little fountain and a water area where you can sort of sit and relax. What is it saying Chinese here? Can you read? No? You speak Chinese? Indian. A little. A little. So a lot about the extent of my Chinese. And you from where in the UK? I'm from near Birmingham a place called Worcestershire. Worcestershire. So if you're familiar with Worcestershire source. So how did how did the O-Winner find you? I've been living in China for about five years. So before I was living in another region of China and then I saw this opportunity at O-Winner. Currently they're growing as you can see from the building taking on a lot of new stuff. Are there any animals in here? Crocodile. Oh you can see a crocodile. And the partners that don't you know that don't follow through? Yeah that don't yeah I mean that's where that's where you end up. So just through here we have a staff canteen. So it's lunchtime at O-Winner. So as you can see it's it's fairly hectic. Yeah this is where all our engineers all our staff come for lunch every day. So there's a choice of mainly obviously Chinese food. Nice only Chinese food. No burgers. No burgers unfortunately. That's spaghetti. If you like noodles. Noodles spaghetti kind of similar. Rice there's a lot of rice right? A lot of rice yeah. Actually Chinese food is the best in the world. What do you think? It's better than Scottish food or something. Yeah maybe better than Scottish food. Sometimes it's good. It's maybe in a quiet taste. It's a little bit different to like Chinese food in the West. So you guys you can see a lot of staff everyone having lunch. Everybody's an engineer? Not all engineers but most of those are engineers. Maybe we have some people from marketing also from HR department. They all come here for lunch. It's kind of like the Google of China right? All these people are the best in China right? We try we try to build that also kind of positive work environment. We try to have nice facilities. Make it a nice place for the staff to spend time. Obviously in technology our staff are quite important so we want to encourage them to work for us and obviously part of that is having good facilities. All right so I can show you some more of those facilities as we go through the building. So what's going on over here? What's all this stuff? So these are just the different floors. The second floor tends to be focused for HR and finance and then the third and fourth floors are more engineering floors and the fifth floor that's kind of our recreation area where we have sort of a sports hall a gym and a library. So we can go up there and have a look. All right. So here we just have some meeting rooms. If we have some partners come we hold some meetings in these rooms. Also some some hardware area. All right you have lots of meetings every day? Yeah there are a lot of meetings in all winter. People are always taking sort of conference calls or having various meetings. Also a lot of travel involved in all winter. So do partners fly to Hong Kong airport and take a boat to come here? Yeah normally you can fly to Hong Kong or you can fly to Guangzhou and Shenzhen and then it's about an hour and a half on the boat. There's not a Zuhai airport no? There is an airport in Zuhai but it's quite far. It's maybe an hour and a half from here and it's not the best airport in the world. Okay. The last time I flew there were a fair few delays. So we tend to use Hong Kong or Guangzhou. So there's a lot of things happening over here right? Is it going to be busy the rest of the year and the next year? It's always a lot of things happening. Yeah. I don't win it. Yeah. And everything is secret? Most things are secret except for obviously what we released sort of fresh release wise. All right. So are you doing the press releases? Yeah I am responsible for sort of press releases at all when it is part of my job. Are you trying to make them different than other press releases or it has to follow the rules of how you write everything? Yeah normally there's sort of a set structure for that. So you're sort of restricted to what kind of words you can use and what you can say in the press release. All right. Cool. So that's a nice elevator here. What does it say here? Run faster than the competitor? Maybe Martin can explain that one for you. So it's hard to explain. Maybe you are. I don't know. This is the same? Oh it's communication. Communication. That's that's a good one. Is it here? One more floor. One more. Okay. Is it still a secret floor here? Yeah this is still our engineering floor. Maybe run fast and communication. Run fast. So these are our inspirational marketing words for our staff. Do you make them up? Obviously not the Chinese ones. No that's more Eva's department. So here we have the fifth floor. So this is sort of a space we try and encourage our staff to use to relax and hang out. At lunchtime people like to sleep up here. Is there a sleeping time in the middle of the day? Yeah I mean it's a little bit different to a western company. We sort of most people tend to go to sleep after lunch. Yeah so maybe from about sort of 20 plus 12 till one o'clock. People like to have a little nap. So here you can see the technology mark. Who's the other guys here? Over here is action technology just in that building there. Yeah and then obviously we have another technology company that's based in this area. So this industrial estate tends to just be for tech companies. Is this a rice field? Yeah they're actually building another technology park over here. Encouraging more technology companies to locate in Juhai. Like Google maybe make them. Well Google's still not available in China. But maybe they'll get a deal with those. Yeah maybe they will. So yeah I think in Juhai they're trying to sort of make it a little bit sort of similar to Silicon Valley in the US and locate technology companies here because it's close to Guangzhou close to Shenzhen. So sort of the manufacturing ecosystem is nearby. Juhai tends to be a bit a bit cleaner a bit greener than the other cities. It's beautiful no? Yeah it's nice. So there's less pollution and things like that. So I think it's quite a good place to have our headquarters located rather than the hustle and bustle. And actually compared to Silicon Valley here is real silicon. Yeah it's true. It's Silicon Valley it's just iPhone apps. It's true yeah we actually have the epicenter of the hardware world which is only an hour away. So where are we going now? This is Orner's library. So we hold talks here. Maybe we do some presentations. Right. Okay. Sometimes people are sleeping in here. All right we're waking up somebody. So libraries. Is it all books about programming arms abuse? Yeah it's a mix of books. Some are technology. Some are just some magazines. Sometimes if we go to technology shows maybe we bring back some magazines or something like that just to put in here so the staff can read those. So yeah this is kind of a nice relaxed space for people to hang out after work. And you have a basketball hall outside? Yeah we have a very big... Activities do you have? Sports hall. You don't expect to see it when you go through this door. But this is quite a big space for people to hang out after work, play sport, play pool. Also we have a small gym so like I say staff and the quality of the work environment is quite important at all you know. Do you have cricket? You can play cricket if you like but it's not that popular. Badminton. Cool. Is that for baseball in there? Yeah I'm not sure what goes on in there. Obviously it's for someone hitting balls I imagine. And the ping pong and the pool. Yeah I think it's quite a nice space for people to come and relax. Nice are you good at badminton? I'm not bad actually. So actually you do win over a few of the games? Sometimes yeah on a good day. Okay that's great so that's a Olympics kind of. And what can we go over there to see that side? Yeah I mean you can have a look. Is it oh we're building number two right there? Unfortunately not. Over here is a very interesting building but I'm not sure what that plan is. They haven't quite finished yet. Is it a church? I think they were going to sell wine and alcohol but development sort of stopped so I'm not sure what's going on there. But as you can see there's a lot of development here. It's always like that in China. It's still growing quite rapidly so you can see here probably in the next 12 months we'll have another complex built near O'Wanna. Oh really? Yeah. Which this part over there? Yeah this part here will be a large. Right there? Yeah. Is it going to be O'Wanna or what? It's not O'Wanna no it's just another technology company we'll probably locate here. So they're trying to zone this area just for technology companies. Like I say they also have another area zone for that about a mile away where they're encouraging new technology companies to set up. So that was awesome and so maybe in the future we'll see what happens but maybe in the future we can film the secret floors. The secret floors. There's a lot of secret stuff happening but when it gets released then maybe we'll see what happens in the future or maybe you'll release some more behind the scenes because it's awesome too. I mean this building is fantastic. Yeah it's very cool building. Yeah I think it's a good place for staff to work and also for me coming from a Western company I worked for Western companies before and the facilities are not as good as they are sort of at O'Wanna and my experience working at China. So I think a lot of people don't realize just how far the sort of Chinese technology industries come. Maybe people still have the images of sort of Chinese people slaving away at Foxconn making cell phones or whatever but actually China is evolving quite quickly and moving into innovation and also improving its standards. So like I say it's very relaxed working environment here. And I mean the old winner is the winner in the tablet market for the last three four years but there's so many more things happening now. There's IoT, there's VR, there's lots of opportunities in making consoles and other stuff. There's going to be lots of different opportunities. Yeah I think like you say sort of O'Wanna had success in the tablet market obviously that market is a little bit in decline now so we're trying to move our focus away and sort of diversify our products into different markets things like like you mentioned IoT or VR Remix laptops? Yeah they're quite exciting new product at the moment. I think that's a good example of where the industry is going as well sort of people moving away from I don't know like that traditional windows kind of set up to a more mobile sort of familiar feel. So I think migrating that mobile phone experience onto desktop is working quite well as opposed to sort of migrating the desktop experience onto mobile phones that's been a little bit more difficult so I think Remix is quite exciting product. That's awesome and I'm really looking for I hope I can find the cool stuff's happening and make videos about it. Yeah we can we can set you up with some technology we have some demos here some Remix laptops also some VR devices for you to try and have a look at so there's a lot of exciting things coming out of Guangzhou and Shenzhen at the moment. Cool let's play badminton. Yeah you will okay I can