Young entrepreneurs need help to make it big

'Makerspaces' in Shenzhen are hothouses of innovation and cutting-edge ideas, but funding and manufacturing advice are desperately needed

Liang Hong'en belongs to a new generation of do-it-yourself entrepreneurs and dreams of running his own company in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

Known as a "maker", a term coined in Germany and the United States for a growing breed of inventors and tech savvy professionals, he is constantly working on the next "big thing".