She meets the World: China Innovation & Culture Immersion for Global Women Leaders

Step inside China’s most influential platforms, innovation ecosystems and consumer companies — engage with the people behind their speed, strategy and market decisions. Not briefings. Real access.

Understand the social, historical and lifestyle context behind China’s business transformation — from city culture and aesthetics to women’s lives, dining tables and daily digital behaviours.

Travel with a carefully selected peer cohort and connect through private dinners, company conversations, women leaders’ salons and reflective moments designed for meaningful exchange.

China’s most economically powerful city. GDP of RMB 5.39 trillion in 2024. A leading gateway for finance, consumption, design, lifestyle and global-facing Chinese culture.

• RedNote / Xiaohongshu — China’s first-line lifestyle and consumption-decision platform for young urban consumers.

• LABUBU / Pop Mart — How Chinese IP and emotional consumption become global cultural exports.

• New Consumer Brand / Design Retail Walk — Shanghai’s contemporary Chinese lifestyle and brand confidence.

How urban women, lifestyle platforms, design districts and new consumer brands shape the way modern China discovers, desires and decides.

One of China’s most important digital economy cities. Home of Alibaba’s headquarters, and also West Lake, tea culture and the softness of Jiangnan aesthetics — technology and beauty in the same city.

• Alibaba — Digital commerce, cloud and platform infrastructure. How Chinese platforms connect brands, payments, logistics and consumers.

• Digital Commerce Briefing — How platform ecosystems support brands, creators, logistics and consumer decision-making at scale.

• West Lake / Tea Culture Experience — A cultural counterpoint to platform speed: how history and ritual continue to shape Chinese life.

How China’s platform economy coexists with cultural refinement — and why technology in China is often embedded in daily rituals, commerce and social life.

The city where ideas become products at unprecedented speed. Home to DJI, BYD and a maker ecosystem that supplies the world. China’s living laboratory for hardware, engineering and the Greater Bay Area.

• DJI — Global civilian drone leader. China’s strength in hardware design and applied technology made tangible.

• BYD — World-leading new energy vehicle company. Supply chains and engineering reshaping global mobility.

• Hardware / Innovation Walk — Shenzhen’s maker culture, product speed and Greater Bay Area entrepreneurship.

How China’s speed is built — through supply chains, engineering talent, product iteration and a city designed around experimentation and scale.

Beijing carries the weight of Chinese civilisation alongside the ambition of its next technological chapter. ByteDance, Xiaomi and China’s national innovation narrative all find their centre here.

• ByteDance / AI & Platform Briefing — Content platforms, recommendation systems, AI product culture and global Chinese technology.

• Xiaomi / Smart Hardware & EV Ecosystem — Smartphones, AIoT, lifestyle hardware and electric vehicles in one integrated company.

• Forbidden City / Great Wall Experience — Continuity, power, memory and civilisational depth behind modern China.

How China’s historical power centre is also shaping the next chapter of platforms, AI, smart manufacturing and national innovation strategy.