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Shenzhen [a] is a city in the province of Guangdong, China.A special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, and Macau to the southwest.
City center in Shenzhen. The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (Chinese: 深圳经济特区) is a special economic zone (SEZ) of China.One of four special economic zones (SEZ) established in May 1980, it was the first SEZ created by Deng Xiaoping, [1] and, like the other three zones, was modeled after Ireland's Shannon Free Zone.
Shenzhen is one of the major cities for handicraft manufacturing in China. With over 1,900 handicraft manufacturers and more than 200,000 practitioners, it boasts the largest handicraft production base in the country. Shenzhen holds a leading position in the design and production of water products, which is an emerging cultural industry in the ...
Before 1980, Shenzhen's GDP was just 0.2 percent of Hong Kong's. In 2018, the city's GDP hit 2.42 trillion yuan (US$372 billion), overtaking Hong Kong. [21] Successes in Shenzhen prompted Chinese central authorities to instruct provincial officials to learn from Shenzhen. [22]: 114
The history of Nantou dates back to 331 CE. It was known as Dongguan (东莞) as it was the capital of Dongguan Prefecture, which was, amongst others, the areas covering present-day Dongguan, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Huizhou, Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macau prior to any European settlements. At the same time, it was also the administrative centre of ...
Bao'an County, formerly named Xin'an County, was a historical county in South China. It roughly follows the administrative boundaries of modern-day Hong Kong and the city of Shenzhen. For most of its history, the administrative center of the county was in Nantou.
Shenzhen Museum (Chinese: 深圳博物馆) [1] is a multi-functional modern museum in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It has a total area of 37,000 square meters, and a building area of 18,000 square meters. The original museum, now the Shenzhen Museum of Ancient Art, was established in 1981, but was not formally opened until 1988. It holds more ...
Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City is a 2017 collection of essays, co-edited by Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach, and published by the University of Chicago Press. It discusses the development of Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and how it influenced the development of other places in ...