SHENZHEN: A Border Town of 30,000 in 1979 That Became a City of 17 Million | 4K Travel Documentary

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The story usually begins with a fishing village. It did not. In 1979 the land that became Shenzhen was a county of more than 300,000 people, spread across some 2,000 villages of rice farmers, salt makers and oyster growers, with one small market town at the railway crossing into Hong Kong. Forty years later the census counted 17.56 million. It is often called the fastest-growing city in history, and the reason it happened on this particular stretch of coast is not the one most people are told.

In this documentary, discover how Shenzhen was actually built: the two square kilometres at Shekou where it started, the tower that rose a floor every three days, the seventeen-minute land auction that changed how Chinese cities pay for themselves, and the old villages that never left and now sit beneath the skyline.

From the border crossing at Luohu to the shore of Shenzhen Bay at night, this is a slow journey through a single working lifetime. Take a breath. Stay a while.


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