Shenzhen, sister of Hong Kong

Shenzhen is a frontier city, not only for being placed along with the border that separates China of Hong Kong, but because the transformations that it has experienced in the last years are more proper than these young cities on the borders of the civilization, which of a metropolis in the middle of the developed region of the river of the Pearls. The origin of the changes is located in 1979, when the Chinese Government, ready to verify the effects that the capitalism would have on the Chinese society, designated five Experimental Economic Areas, which would be ruled by the same economic norms as the capitalist countries. The experiment turned out to be so satisfactory to them that, fifteen years later it was decided to transform completely the ideology of the country, turning China into a socialistic market economy.

The case of Shenzhen, given to Hong Kong, was making his development doubly desirable, since in addition to proving the capitalist system, it was a question of showing to this Hong Kong still not reincorporated in the native China, the capacity to create a double that was putting in danger his prosperity. That's why the Chinese authorities have not saved strengthened at the time of there created in Shenzhen a copy, a model and a competitor of the small island. That has been obtained thanks to the efforts of thousands of Chinese, come from the most remote regions to the smell of the prosperity and to the most favorable financial and fiscal policies. This way a city of marvel has been constructed in a record time. His big crystal towers are the mirror in which Hong Kong can look. To his feet, the life boils with his thousands of citizens who look for the prosperity in a few years to return soon to his city. Nevertheless, in spite of the coldness of a city of set, Shenzhen has something that it can go so far as to hook, perhaps the lack of inhibition inherent in a place where they all are foreign, unknown. Or this magic of the new towns, without history, where everything is possible. Very well, I would not cross my China to come to Shenzhen, but if you have time and are not very far, he is worth throwing a glance to the most capitalist city of this less and less socialistic China.

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