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Tianhou Temple, Shenzhen’s Soul


January 14, 2008 ·  

Some people say Shenzhen has no soul.

The mega-city of 10 million sits on the Chinese mainland next to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Before Deng Xiaoping made Shenzhen a Special Economic Zone in 1979, the city was a mere fishing village of a 300,000. The People’s Liberation Army engineering core came to the site of what was to become a Chinese industrial boomtown and built it from the ground up.

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