In China, Design Firm Discovers New Type of Work Force.

HONG KONG -- Next to a children's amusement park and upstairs from two huge nightclubs in Shenzhen, the creative minds of Tecatech are at work designing remote controls, headphones and the packaging for your next set of sunglasses. Founded in Britain in 1998, the company was the country's first product design firm to set up permanent offices in China. After setting up an office in Hong Kong in 2004 and working there for about a year, Andy James Lee, Tecatech's founder and design director, realized he was going to mainland China almost daily to meet with manufacturers and other business contacts. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]