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Shenzhen actually has a population of 14 million now. IN the 1990s even among Chinese it had a reputation for being a bit of a frontier town, rife with urban growing problems and tacky buildings. However in true Shenzhen accelerated style the city's had a big makeover as it steps up nearer to true global city status (its the richest city in China but still has a big inferiority complex with neighbouring Hong Kong). Basically it went from a town of 30,000 to a city of 3 million in less than 10 years - then added another 10 million people in the ten years after that (making it double the size of neighbouring Hong Kong), with the infrastructure to go with it:





Shenzhen Stock Exchange


Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art:



Shenzhen CTS Towers:



Kingkey Tower park:


Century Center:


Shenzhen International Airport:




Shenzhen International Finance (ESB for scale, photo taken from the hoarding):


Dafen Art Museum:


Shenzhen University:


Shenzhen Library




Shenzhen Stadium for 2011 Universidade:




Avic Plaza:


Huaqiang Plaza:


Shenzhen Metro HQ:


Bluetooth Crystal



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Shenzhen East Plaza



Shenzhen Metro expansion