shenzhen to hong kong Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/shenzhen-to-hong-kong Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:19:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Traveling in Shenzhen http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-shenzhen.html http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-shenzhen.html#respond Sat, 01 Apr 2017 18:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=233303 LANGUAGE Shenzhen is an almost purely Mandarin speaking city. It is an immigrant city whose people come from all over China and who use Mandarin as their daily language. It is an island of Mandarin in a sea of Cantonese. One hundred yards to the south of the Hong Kong Shenzhen border, the majority of individuals born there speak Cantonese and English at home, while most youngsters learn and understand Mandarin at school. To the north in Dongguan City and especially in Guangzhou, the majority of those born there are Contonese speakers at home, while, most can understand and speak

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/traveling-in-shenzhen.html/feed 0 Shenzhen Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/shenzhen-guide-for-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/shenzhen-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Sun, 26 Mar 2017 23:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=233258 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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