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China AI Study Tour & Digital Technology Immersion

China has emerged as a global leader in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and digital platforms. Our AI & Digital Technology immersion program gives you exclusive access to the companies driving this transformation.

What You'll Experience

Featured Companies

Our AI immersion covers the full span of China's AI stack — from the platform layer (Huawei, Tencent, ByteDance, DJI) to the frontier model layer. We arrange visits to the leading Chinese large language model companies — Kimi (Moonshot AI), Qwen (Alibaba), MiniMax and GLM (Zhipu AI) — so you can assess the model builders directly, not just the platforms that deploy them.

Huawei

Global ICT leader. Visit their Shenzhen campus including R&D labs, 5G innovation center, and digital transformation showcase.

Tencent

Social media, gaming, and fintech ecosystem. Visit their Shenzhen headquarters to understand WeChat's platform strategy and AI initiatives.

ByteDance

AI and content technology powerhouse behind TikTok and Douyin. Explore their recommendation algorithms and AI research.

DJI

Global leader in drone technology. Visit their Shenzhen HQ for demonstrations of commercial and industrial drone applications.

Kimi (Moonshot AI)

Frontier large language model developer behind Kimi. Beijing-based, founded by former Tsinghua and Google researchers; known for long-context language models. Visit to discuss model capability and the economics of scaling a Chinese LLM company.

Qwen (Alibaba)

Alibaba's large model family (Tongyi Qianwen), spanning open-source and proprietary releases. Hangzhou-based and integrated across Alibaba's cloud and enterprise platforms. Visit to understand how a hyperscaler deploys AI across e-commerce, cloud and enterprise.

MiniMax

Shanghai-based frontier model developer behind the Hailuo AI video model and the Talkie companion product. Visit to see how Chinese foundation models are productised for consumer and creative use.

GLM (Zhipu AI)

Beijing-based, Tsinghua-affiliated developer of the GLM and ChatGLM model family. Visit to understand the research-lab-to-product path and the enterprise adoption of open-weight models in China.

China's AI Landscape in Global Context

China accounts for over 40% of global AI patent filings and hosts the world's largest pool of AI researchers. Unlike Western markets where AI development is concentrated in a few hyperscalers, China's ecosystem spans thousands of companies across computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous systems, and industrial AI. Our immersion programmes cut through the headlines to show you how these capabilities are actually deployed in production environments.

This programme is ideal for CTOs, innovation directors, digital transformation leaders, and investors evaluating AI opportunities in China. No technical background is required — all sessions are designed for executive decision-makers.

Who This Programme Is For

This programme is designed for CTOs, innovation leaders, AI strategy directors, and technology investors seeking first-hand exposure to China's AI ecosystem. Participants typically include senior executives from enterprise software companies, cloud infrastructure providers, and corporate innovation labs who need to understand China's AI capabilities, regulatory environment, and competitive landscape. No technical AI background is required — our briefings bridge the gap between technical depth and strategic relevance.

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Questions Executives Ask About China AI Immersion

The questions we hear most often from European strategy teams and innovation leaders before they commit to a programme.

Both, but the emphasis is on dialogue. Visits are arranged with company leadership and technical teams. Meeting the people responsible for AI strategy is what makes the difference; the site visit provides the context for that conversation.
Behind-the-scenes access is the whole point. A standard campus tour shows you a visitor centre and a showroom. Our itineraries are arranged so that delegations enter working environments — engineering floors, testing facilities, operations centres — and speak with the teams accountable for what happens there. Where a company will only offer a showcase visit, we say so before the itinerary is signed off rather than using it as filler.
Yes, and it is what most senior leadership teams ask for. AI rarely sits in isolation inside a Chinese company — it is embedded in platform operations, automated production and product hardware. Programmes that need to reach robotics and advanced automation draw on our advanced manufacturing itineraries alongside the AI and digital platform companies on this page, so a single visit can span the emerging technology stack rather than one slice of it.
By observing deployments in production and asking the operators direct questions. We focus on companies applying AI to revenue, cost, and product decisions — not the ones generating the most coverage. The difference between narrative and reality becomes clear quickly once you are in the room.
Each company visit combines an executive meeting, a technical session, and a site walk-through. Between visits, our team leads a debrief to put what you saw into the broader context of China's AI landscape — what is real, what is scaling, and what still has to prove itself.
Strategy teams, innovation leads, and senior technical leadership who need to make investment or partnership decisions about Chinese technology. The value is highest when the group arrives with specific questions it needs answered.
The programme is assembled close to the travel date for that reason. Company selection is confirmed in the weeks before departure rather than months ahead, because the set of companies worth seeing in Chinese AI changes materially over a year. Anything presented as a fixed annual itinerary is likely out of date by the time it runs.
It can inform the decision but will not make it for you. What a visit provides is direct exposure to how these platforms are operated, supported and governed in practice, and the chance to ask the operators the questions your technical team has. Commercial and regulatory assessment still belongs with your own advisers.
Both, and the distinction matters. Communications teams give you the official position, which is useful context. Engineering and product leads give you the constraints and trade-offs, which is usually what the visit is for. We ask for the second explicitly when arranging sessions.
All four are within our programme network, alongside the platform companies. The frontier model layer — Moonshot AI's Kimi, Alibaba's Qwen, MiniMax and Zhipu AI's GLM — is where China's AI capability is currently being defined. We arrange briefings with each company's technical and commercial teams so you can compare how they approach model development, productisation and enterprise adoption, rather than reading about it second-hand.
One programme covers both. The platform layer (Huawei, Tencent, ByteDance, DJI) shows AI deployed at scale; the model layer (Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax, GLM) shows where the underlying capability is being built. Seeing both together is what separates a useful immersion from a company list — you can trace a capability from a research lab to a production system within the same week.

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