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China.From the factory floor.
8 days in Shenzhen, Dongguan, and Hong Kong — real production lines, markets, and labs. Operator-led since 2000. Not sightseeing.
Families · Teens 15–17
Makers
Build, solder, fly — in Shenzhen
From $6,888Early Bird
Families · Young adults 18–25
Engineers
A hardware portfolio no university can match
From $8,888Early Bird
Companies
Scale
Walk the floor. Negotiate face-to-face. Cut COGS.
From $13,888Early Bird
Companies
Frontier
Stand next to the hardware. Brief the board.
From $16,888Early Bird
Project owners
China Unlocked
26 years of relationships → one week
From $38,888Early Bird
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For families
Your child comes home a maker.
8 days in Shenzhen and Dongguan. Real factory floors. Huaqiangbei markets. Soldering, sourcing, building — not a camp simulation. They fly home holding things they made, with a story no university application has seen.
For companies
One person. One week. Permanent capability.
Your delegate walks live production lines — not trade-fair booths. Prices a bill of materials from real quotes. Eats with the owner. Comes back able to challenge any supplier and brief the board on what actually ships.
For project owners
The China access you can't buy from a consultant.
8 days with Steven Ducat — factory operator since 2000, known on the floor as 杜总. Warm introductions to owners who answer his WeChat. Whiteboard strategy. His number after you fly home. Not a deck. Not cold outreach.
"When Steven calls a factory owner in Dongguan, the owner doesn't route it to PR. He replies: 'Which day? I'll be there.'"
Doors that don't open for tourists
Steven Ducat has built and run factories in China since 2000. On the floor he's 杜总. That's 26 years of relationships no rack-rate tour can productize — and what opens doors that stay closed to everyone else.
- Every program visits real production floors — not showrooms. Lines running. Workers eating lunch. Owners at dinner.
- The access is the product. We don't sell a fixed venue checklist. We sell what opens that week through relationships built over decades.
- Steven leads China Unlocked — the full 8 days. On other programs, a bilingual lead guide runs the week and Steven joins at key moments.
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