The "one meter cabinet" has recorded the development footprint of Guangdong and Shenzhen at the forefront of reform and opening up, and also witnessed the accelerated rise of Huaqiangbei, the "number one electronic street in China" in Shenzhen. Recently, during an interview in Huaqiangbei, the reporter found that the "one meter cabinet" has become "tall" in length. At 9am, Huaqiangbei was already bustling with activity. Transportation, procurement, inquiry, and personnel shuttle back and forth. Lu Dongli, who has passed the age without confusion, walked through the crowd and entered the Zhifangzhou International Intelligent Hardware Innovation Center located in the Electronic Technology Building. In 2006, Lu Dongli came to Huaqiangbei to start semiconductor trading. Five years later, he owned his own "one meter cabinet" and founded Jibairui Technology Co., Ltd. in the grid of SEG Technology Park. In recent years, with the complete industrial chain and strong agglomeration effect of Huaqiangbei, small orders have accumulated and the company has gradually grown stronger In October 2022, Lu Dongli's company moved into an office building located in the central area, transforming the "one meter cabinet" into a startup company of over 300 square meters. In Huaqiangbei, there are countless entrepreneurs like Lu Dongli. Before the reform and opening up, Huaqiangbei was just a paddy field. With the establishment of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, major enterprises have gradually settled in and built factories, and Huaqiangbei's electronics industry has gradually grown in scale, becoming one of the areas with the highest entrepreneurial density in Shenzhen. Just a month ago, Lu Dongli's company received an intention order to supply 40000 power chips annually. The previous morning, the customer suddenly called to confirm the order and immediately contacted the supplier for procurement, but received feedback that the market situation had risen and the original price had expired. We cannot do business at a loss, nor can we release potential customers Lu Dong made a decisive decision: to replace the supplier. In Huaqiangbei, there is nothing that cannot be bought except for unexpected things This commercial district, covering only 1.45 square kilometers, is home to approximately 110000 merchants of all sizes. Each small storefront is connected to factories from various regions, forming the world's largest electronic component trading hub. In the past two hours, there have been over a dozen phone calls. After making inquiries one by one, Lu Dongli's brow gradually relaxed. The source of goods was found in the adjacent building, and he went to inspect them in the afternoon! At 2pm, Lu Dongli walked from the company to Baohua Building in SEG Communication Market, where the supplier was located, in less than 10 minutes. Get the sample, check the packaging, model, and label, it is basically correct. After being sent to a third-party organization for testing and obtaining a certificate of conformity, the order is confirmed. Shops selling electronic components also need to provide excellent technical services. Since 2018, Jibairui has expanded its product agency business, providing customers with technical support from solution selection to product mass production. Behind business transformation is a shift in development mindset. By expanding its technical service business, Jibairui has added nearly 900 new customers, covering the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Northeast regions, supporting an average annual revenue growth of about 15%. Review of accounts: In the first half of the year, the company's sales increased by over 10% year-on-year, and the contribution rate of technical services was nearly 40%. Huaqiangbei, which has created countless "one meter cabinets", is taking big strides on the road of transformation. Last year, Huaqiangbei added 100000 square meters of industrial space, and the occupancy rate of 13 newly renovated electronic markets exceeded 80%. Since the beginning of this year, more than 400 innovative enterprises have settled in 14 incubators, and the daily traffic in the commercial district has exceeded one million people. Seize new opportunities and unleash new vitality. Huaqiangbei has proposed a new positioning as a "global electronic device trading center, global hardware innovation and entrepreneurship center, and international fashion electronics consumption center", and an international innovation and entrepreneurship block is thriving. The 'one meter cabinet' will grow even taller Lian Jiaqi, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Huaqiangbei Street, said that in the future, the focus will be on promoting the transformation and upgrading of the block, planning and reforming, deepening actions such as improving the quality of the electronic industry and optimizing industrial space, continuously enhancing "hard investment" and optimizing the "soft environment", and promoting Huaqiangbei to move towards high-quality development. (New Society)