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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
Interesting pictures. Are there any older and/or historic areas of Shenzhen?
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Shenzhen was a fishing village up until the 70s.
Deng Xiaoping (or as I like to call him "The Deng"
) basically said this area was going to be an experiment for the Chinese to move away from Ultra-controlled communist economics to market-based economics et voila, Hello Modern China.
I love the
Freshwater Place clone
they built (lol it's the ultimate compliment) - was there in 2007 when much of the greenery HK has posted in this thread was quite literally no footpaths, clay/mud/rubble everywhere and half those towers were either U/C or not built at all. I can even see the huge differences since then - one of them being the metro connection right at the checkpoint!