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Shenzhen Travel

editor — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 03:12:00 +0000

SHENZHEN AFTER 1979 First and most obviously there were the buildings. In 1979 the tallest building in Shenzhen was a five storey military barracks. Within three years of the establishment of the SEZ, the total floor area of buildings in Shenzhen had increased 15 fold to 1.95 million sq. m.. Between 1982 and 1996 the total number of multi-storey buildings rose from 1 to 237, and, the number of major construction projects from 46 to 600. Most impressive of these early construction projects was the International Trade Tower, until about ten years ago the very centre of the city. By

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Visit to Shenzhen

editor — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:00:00 +0000

ORIENTATION LOCATION Shenzhen is located in the south of Guangdong Province, its southern districts hugging the Hong Kong border. On the map, the SEZ forms a long narrow ribbon of 49 km from Mirs Bay in the east to the mouth of the Pearl River in the west. Most of Shenzhen is within 25 km of the Hong Kong border. The city area is 2,020 sq. km. 780 square miles. You will often hear people referring to inside the zone or outside the zone. Because, originally, only a small proportion of the city was actually within the Special Economic Zone.

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Shenzhen Guide for Tourist

editor — Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:00:00 +0000

HISTORICAL SKETCH EARLY HISTORY The history of Shenzhen is the history of a county, or prefecture, bounded in the north by the East River and stretching to the Hong Kong islands in the south. It has been known variously as Dongguan, Bao’an and Xin’an. Its administrative headquarters have moved between Dongguan, north of modern Shenzhen, and Nantou in the east of the modern city. Shenzhen village only became the administrative centre of the area in 1953 when the closure of the Hong Kong border made the railway an area of strategic importance. The area comes into Chinese history in about

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Travel to Shenzhen

editor — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 07:20:00 +0000

THE NAME “SHENZHEN The name Shenzhen means deep drainage ditches. The zhen in Shenzhen refers to the ditches that take the water away from paddy fields. Zhen is not a place name that occurs with any frequency in deep antiquity, but today it is relatively common. It occurs in a limited area of Southern China. The area and the historical occurrence of place names incorporating the word zhen are compatible with a name brought by refugees fleeing south from the Khitan, Jurchen and Mongol invasions which occurred in North China after the fall of the Tang Dynasty at around 1000

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