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Shenzhen roughly follows the administrative boundaries of Bao'an County, which was established in imperial times. After the Opium Wars, the southern portion of Bao'an County was occupied by the British and became part of British Hong Kong, while the village of Shenzhen was next to the border. Shenzhen turned into a city in 1979.
Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre (Chinese: 深圳大运体育中心), also known as Shenzhen Universiade Centre, Longgang Universiade Sports Centre, or Longgang Stadium, is a multi-use sport facilities complex in Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. The sports centre was completed in 2011.
Maciej Dakowicz (born 20 November 1976) is a Polish street photographer, photojournalist and gallerist. He is from Białystok in North East Poland. [1] Dakowicz is best known for his series of photographs of Cardiff night-life titled Cardiff after Dark. [2]
COCO Park is a group of shopping complexes in Shenzhen. The primary one is Futian COCO Park in Futian District, Shenzhen. Futian COCO Park was established in 2007. [1] Various journalists working for the South China Morning Post described it as "Shenzhen’s answer to Lan Kwai Fong." [1] [2] This refers to an entertainment district in Hong Kong.
In 2018, a reporter from Vice spent three days with Wu in Shenzhen, exploring the city, meeting Wu's friends, photographing Wu's home, and describing in depth the local creative history and Wu's recent creation, the Sino:Bit, [21] a single-board microcontroller for computer education in China, and the first Chinese open-source hardware product to be certified by the Open Source Hardware ...
The area attracts many tourists and has a sizable community of resident foreigners, and many non-Chinese restaurants exist in the area. [18] According to the Shenzhen Management and Service Center for Expats, 6,275 of the 43,919 registered expats living in Shenzhen are registered with the Shekou Police Station and Shenzhenwan Police Station alone.
Shenzhen's high-rise building boom shows no signs of slowing down, [5] with numerous proposals for skyscrapers taller than 150 m (492 ft). Skyscraper construction started in Shenzhen in 1978, at a time when the tallest building in the city was five stories tall. [ 6 ]
First edition. The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China's Instant City is a 2020 non-fiction book by Juan Du, published by Harvard University Press.. Du argued that there was a misconception that Shenzhen was built almost entirely by the central government when officials from Guangdong province had first advocated for the idea of making Shenzhen a "special economic zone".