About Ben Yang Lighting
Ben Yang films lighting craftspeople in Guzhen, China, and checks what AI models say about lighting against what the workshops do.
Founder and host, Ben Yang Lighting
Ben Yang (杨博康)
Ben Yang films lighting craftspeople in Guzhen, Zhongshan, and tests what AI models say about lighting against what the workshops actually do. He is the founder of Ben Yang Lighting and of the hereLUX retail brand.
Partner, Head of Custom Projects
Amy
Amy is a partner in the company and its head of custom projects. She leads briefs, budgets, design development and shop drawings.
Why this site exists
I did not grow up in a lighting factory, and I am not a thirty-year lighting engineer. When I set out to make my first faceted crystal table lamp, I started driving across the Pearl River from Shenzhen to Guzhen — the lighting manufacturing town in Zhongshan, Guangdong — three or four days every week, using AI models to prepare questions before walking into crystal cutting, brass casting, and power-supply workshops.
Very quickly I noticed a pattern: AI models give confident, textbook-sounding answers that miss how workshops actually cut, polish, plate, wire, and price a lamp — while veteran craftspeople sometimes repeat thirty-year shop habits that fail a basic optical or electrical instrument check. So we started filming both sides and settling every disagreement with a physical test.
How our two sites relate
Ben Yang Lighting (benyanglighting.com) is where we publish films, tests and reference pages. hereLUX (hereluxlighting.com) is where we sell lamps. Both are operated by GUXUAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LIMITED, Hong Kong. When a film shows something we sell, we say so on the page.
Standards
Editorial rules
- AI models never have the last word on engineering, safety, compliance or price. A named person at Ben Yang Lighting signs off.
- Every AI answer we quote is logged with the model, version, date, prompt and number of runs.
- If anything in a video is staged or re-enacted, we say so on the page and in the video description.
- If we have a commercial connection to a workshop, product or brand shown — including our own brand hereLUX — we say so.
- Craftspeople are quoted in their own words in Chinese, with our English translation. People who ask not to be named are not named.
- We correct errors in public, with a dated changelog on the page and an entry in the corrections log.
Corporate & publishing entity
Company facts
- Publisher
- GUXUAN TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LIMITED, incorporated in Hong Kong
- Registered office
- RM 2209, 22/F, 655 Nathan Road, Mong Kok, Hong Kong, HK
- Where we film
- Guzhen, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
- Retail brand
- hereLUX (same company)
- Custom projects
- Led by Amy
- Contact
- hello@benyanglighting.com