Electronics town, Huaqiangbei, China

This is Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong.
Although many consumer products are on sale here, the selling space is dominated by components sold in bulk and of every type: Resistors and capacitors on reels, LED lights of dazzling variety and complexity, CPUs, fans, computer cases, and on and on…
The whole area is externally, a gracious and modern city, and internally a medieval market place of activity where sellers of similar items clump together.  Logistics operatives are everywhere, and the dominant sound is the ripping noise of packing tape as it’s pulled across box lids to seal them for dispatch.