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LATW on saturday...

China is a booming country, everybody has heard that and the upcoming olympics will ensure the pace of this growth will continue for a while, unknown cities run into the millions and struggle to cope with this development, others build on their prosperity to upgrade their standard, such as Shenzhen, the story started not so long ago when this fishermen's village near Hong Kong (population 2000 in 1979) was promoted a special economic zone, which attracted may export oriented industries and marked the start of a rarely seen economic boom. When I first visited in 1993, population was already over 2000000, now 15 years later it is over 8000000 and growing. However shenzhen now got extremely expensive by world competition standards and the growth affects more cities of the chinese interior, the extreme example being Chongqing with a population over 31000000 yet.

Shenzhen cannot compete with such a growth and is now busy building on its wealth, for example with such exclusive housings districts featuring bigger and more comfortable flats as well as architectural goodies such as this bell tower remotely evocating Italy. As often in China, the pace is so fast it makes coordination difficult and the expressway interchange was still yet due when I passed by in a bus. It's not specific to shenzhen though, I could witness similar scenes on the way to guangzhou in Dongguan.

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Additional Photos by Jean Yves aka PixelTerror (PixelTerror) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 8887 W: 2175 N: 20798] (86026)
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