On the dragon's tail

Created in China

His company's clients are "big semiconductor manufacturers in the United States and elsewhere", and "we don't have much competition (in China) to speak of", he explains.

"When we do, we'll be at the next stage, changing the supply chain with destructive technologies." The purpose of "stepping up the supply chain" is to generate new industries, he says. "After seven years of operation, we're finally getting some attention."

Even with Founder's weight behind it, ACCESS was not, until now, on the radar of public or government attention, which he sees as the "tool" to speed up innovation.

Some of the "innovation" that ACCESS is working on includes technologies for the wireless industry and high-power chips. With 5G, Hurvits says, it won't just be about the size and rate of the data, but about "integrity". Taobao will send you a package with a drone and you'll buy a self-driving car, he illustrates. "You cannot allow one millisecond of non-interaction."

"This is where we are going and this is where China is going," he says. "In the next 10 years, there'll be some real innovation coming from this country."

Hurvits calls himself lucky to be part of a journey to the future when people will purchase products "created in China" rather than "made in China".

Trained in Israel and exposed to work culture both in Germany and the US, Hurvits isn't a Silicon Valley fan. "We are living in the Bay Area (right now)," he says, likening Shenzhen and Zhuhai to parts of the San Francisco Bay Area where Silicon Valley is located.

China's "Bay Area" has a way to catch up with its American counterpart, he adds.

Hurvits describes China as somewhat a "fusion reactor" combining different facets while presenting a homogenous facade. This is the first "big anomaly" he noticed about the country, with the ancient roots of tradition on one side, and with things evolving all the time, on the other. Sometimes, it is hard to determine which side is dominant.