Today is Sunday, May 10th. In the afternoon, the temperature in Xi’an has unexpectedly risen, truly bringing the feel of summer. Riding in an electric DiDi car, I found the air conditioner barely cooling enough. Even in just a T-shirt, I could feel sweat forming on my back. I am heading to Jiaxing, Zhejiang, to visit an Italian client who has set up business in China, and I am now waiting in the China Eastern Airlines lounge at Xianyang Airport. The client confirmed our meeting for tomorrow, May 11th, without specifying whether it will be in the morning or afternoon. Putting the client’s schedule first, I have no choice but to head to Jiaxing in advance.

Last Saturday, I released a Douyin video — Casual Chat on Sensors Episode 91. It briefly talked about how job seekers should highlight their strengths when applying for positions at sensor and transmitter manufacturers. For candidates with three to five years of working experience, it is essential to showcase their unique advantages and align those strengths with the requirements of the vacant position, which will greatly boost their chances of getting hired. To draw an analogy: if a football team is looking for a striker, a player who can play as striker, defender and midfielder all at once is hardly a targeted match for the striker role. Only those who specialize in being a striker, or highlight their greatest edge as a striker, stand a much higher chance of landing the job.

However, one Douyin follower held an entirely opposite opinion. He believes that company managers born in the 1980s and 1990s nowadays expect employees to be multi-skilled, hoping one person can take on the workload of two or three. As a result, in such companies, most experienced workers become generalists who know a little about everything but lack in-depth professionalism in any field. Without distinctive expertise, they can hardly build any outstanding competitive strengths. He also thinks that entrepreneurs of my generation born in the 1960s are out of touch with the current workplace trends. It is unrealistic to recruit people with such targeted positioning, nor should companies adopt such recruitment standards. It remains open to discussion whether this viewpoint is correct or in line with the current mainstream trends. Everyone is welcome to share their thoughts in the comment section. #15:28, May 10, 2026, China Eastern Airlines Lounge, Xianyang Airport#

It was extremely hot in Jiaxing today. The taxi display showed the outdoor temperature at 32 degrees Celsius. After getting off the car, walking five to six hundred meters under the sun left me sweating profusely. As our meeting with the client was scheduled for the afternoon, my colleague and I spent the whole morning going over and sorting out the PPT for the client presentation.

The client is an Italian compressor manufacturer founded in 1918. Its parent company is based in Italy, and it has established a local subsidiary in Jiaxing, China. My colleague arranged a meeting with the company’s Italian chairman, so I joined the visit as a sign of respect to the client. In fact, the company’s Chinese branch is small in scale, focusing only on manufacturing with no independent research and development department. Like most foreign-funded subsidiaries in China, they keep core R&D work at their headquarters out of concerns over technology leakage. Theoretically, compressors are inevitably equipped with pressure sensors. Meanwhile, there are various types of compressors with diverse technical standards, leading to different application methods and accuracy requirements for supporting pressure sensors.

My colleague Mr. Zhao fluently introduced the profile, corporate culture, export business and product lines of Xi’an Chinastar M&C to the Italian chairman in English. He presented the self-developed MCS pressure sensor core, as well as the GU high-precision pressure transmitter series adopting this core. The introduction focused on pressure sensors, temperature sensors and integrated pressure-temperature sensors applicable to air conditioning compressors.

To further explore future cooperation opportunities, we also showcased Bluetooth wireless pressure and temperature sensors, along with integrated wireless temperature and pressure sensors. Special emphasis was placed on the multi-parameter Bluetooth wireless sensors that monitor vibration, temperature and pressure for compressor fault diagnosis. The communication lasted about one hour in a friendly and positive atmosphere, brimming with potential for future cooperation.

Now I am sitting in the China Eastern Airlines lounge at Shanghai Hongqiao Airport. I can’t help reflecting: I left Xi’an at 2 p.m. yesterday and will return at 11 p.m. tonight, spending over 30 hours on the trip merely for a one-hour client meeting. Is it a waste of time? Will the follow-up cooperation bring satisfactory results?

There is still some time before boarding, and it has cooled down outside the terminal. I plan to go out and shoot a Douyin video to introduce the overview of Shanghai’s sensor industry. In my opinion, Shanghai’s sensor industry ranks at the medium level across China: foreign-funded enterprises hold strong competitiveness, while local domestic manufacturers are relatively weak. The future vitality of the industry lies in innovative emerging sensor startups. #17:38, May 11, 2026, China Eastern Airlines Lounge, Shanghai Hongqiao Airport#