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Schenzhen is a city just over the border from Hong Kong and it has rapidly grown from a small village to a size which reflects its growing importance in the South of China.
Schenzen, being cheaper to live in than Hong Kong, many HK business men find themselves buying homes here as they can afford far more for their money than in the HK SAR.
If ScHENZHEN had been around in classical times, poets would doubtless have compared its gleaming downtown towers to mountain peaks, each rising higher than the other. Incredibly, in 1979 this metropolis was a simple rural hamlet and train station on the Hong Kong border called Baoan , with the first office foundations yet to be dug in its alluvial plains. Within six years, delegations from all over China were pouring in to learn how to remodel their own businesses, cities and provinces on Shenzhen's incentives-based economy. By 1990 the city had four harbours and its manufacturing industries alone were turning over two billion US dollars a year, necessitating the construction of a nuclear power station to deal with local energy needs. Shenzhen may not have been the cause of capitalism in the People's Republic, but it was a glorious piece of propaganda for those who promoted its virtues, and almost two decades later the city remains a model for how the rest of the country would look if it too had been built from scratch with generous foreign investment.
The City
Although Shenzhen is all very impressive, after a quick sniff around there's little reason to stay any longer than it takes to organize your next move into or out of the mainland. For a good glimpse of the city's shoppers, tourists, beggars and businessmen, spend an hour strolling along Renmin Lu, which runs northeast from the train station and Lo Wu border crossing through the centre. The International Trade Centre is a three-storey block on the corner of Jiabin Lu, full of people browsing through stocks of upmarket Chinese watches and perfume. Push on over Jiefang Lu and you're in the tangle of narrow lanes which formed the old town of Baoan , now a downmarket selection of stalls selling cheap clothes, shoes and gadgets. There's a historic monument of sorts here in a squat, blue-roofed diner on Qingyuan Lu - China's original McDonald's restaurant, now a KFC outlet.
For a shot of greenery, walk or catch bus #4 for 1.5km west from the centre along Shennan Zhong Lu to Litchi Park , a surprisingly refreshing, open space, with a nice lake and modern opera house , worth checking out for occasional performances of Chinese theatre. More reliably, hop on bus #204 from Jianshe Lu for the thirty-minute ride west to Shenzhen's three very professional theme parks , next to each other on the Guangshen Expressway (daily 8am-5.30pm; ¥100-120 for each park with various joint entry discounts) - look for a miniaturized Golden Gate Bridge spanning the road. Among limitless souvenir stalls, Splendid China and Window on the World are a collection of scale models of famous monuments such as the Great Wall and Eiffel Tower, while the Folk Culture Village is an enjoyably touristy introduction to the nation's ethnic groups - there are yurts, pavilions, huts, archways, rock paintings, and mechanical goats, with colourful troupes performing different national dances every thirty minutes.
Here is a guide which provides information about this vibrant city.
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