SHENZHEN CREATED IN CHINA

Text by Jiang Tao Translation by Bian Jiajin Photos by CFP

SHENZHEN CREATED IN CHINA

Text by Jiang Tao Translation by Bian Jiajin Photos by CFP

Shenzhen, a city full of creative spirits and dreams. It was a pioneer and the window of the Reform and Opening Policy. And now, it’s a giant of innovation,radiating its infl uence out across China and the whole world.

深圳：中国创造

深圳，一座澎湃着创新精神的梦想之城。曾经以敢为天下先的精神成为中国改革开放的窗口，如今，又以各种创新型巨无霸与独角兽，影响着中国，也改变着世界。

1When we come to Shenzhen city, it's right in the Global Innovation Conference now, a subforum of BRICS 2017, robots, new hardwares and artifi cial intelligence…Shenzhen is marked as centre of Chinese technology innovation. The biggest telecommunication manufacturer Haisi chip of Huawei, the largest mobile Internet and social media platform Tencent and the biggest new energy electrocar BYD Auto are all gathered here in Shenzhen. They represent three modern technology industries: the top-level of IT Hardware innovation, mobile internet and new energy smart cars. Among the innovators of Shenzhen, there are also some most advanced companies in China including gene engineering, touch screen mobile phones, medical apparatus, UAV for civil use and Han's Laser Equipment… Among A-Shares listed companies, there are a lot of private technology companies who are based in Shenzhen.

The innovation atmosphere, the powerful fi nancial support of GEM and the great industrial chains in IT industry together play an important role in the process of Chinese economy upgrade to a higher level.

2 Chinese people are all familiar with “the tale of Springtime”: the leader of the Reform and Opening policy Deng Xiaoping drew a “circle” in China, Shenzhen City, and then this city suddenly rose at a rapid speed like a miracle.When a placard saying “time is gold and effi ciency is life” was set up in Shekou industrial zone, the reformers in the city were all in a last-ditch, engaged into this largest scale modernisation construction in human history and wanted to leave an imprint on their country and the world.

Our hotel is located in an Overseas Chinese Town, and it's not far away from the “window of the world”, where stands the most symbolic architecture from all over the world, full of the enthusiasm and mania of young people.

The sleeping country at that time was faced with the situation of being washed out of the world. But Shenzhen was different. People longed to breathe the new air in Shenzhen. They took a look at this city with hesitation, came to this city with cautious steps and uptight nerves and wanted to peep at the amazing world outside the country a little bit.Nowadays, the economic construction followed by the Reform and Opening policy has been radiated out across China. Led by the Belt and Road policy, the allround new structure of economic construction has been formed. The cities in every area have been engaged into the construc-tion and have interacted well with the new policy. In this energetic economic pattern of the collaboration of inner and outside forces, China and the world have been merged with each other and cannot be apart. Among the global economies, Shenzhen, as a pioneer, is still changing the relationship of China and the world at Speed.

3 In the Shenzhen Museum, a guide is showing us the geographical model of Shenzhen City with pride: We need to learn the new fi gures by heart every week, and every month we need to alter the pictures of the model, for the speed of Shenzhen is too fast.

Overlooking the peek of Lotus Mountain, we can only see the difference between simplifi ed and traditional Chinese characters. The sky-scrapers and the prosperous cityscapes of Shenzhen and Hong Kong look quite similar. Hong Kong and Shenzhen have their own charms, attracting many young people to search for their dreams.But some refl ective Hong Kong people may think that speaking of some industries, Shenzhen has surpassed Hong Kong and become the centre,such as with mobile phone manufacturing.With the construction of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area“, there will be a lot of historical opportunities for the integration and development of Mainland, Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

4 However, Shenzhen is not complacent.Shenzhen people care about the housing market and the lack of cultural development.On the one hand, the government keeps issuing new policies to attract more talent, while on the other hand, a series of volunteer activities and cultural constructions such as mobile libraries are released to cultivate the culture and merits of Shenzhen people. When I asked a student who came to Beijing from Shenzhen how her impression of Shenzhen as a Shenzhener was? She replied that there were mobile libraries at every corner of the city. The era and the man are together in the transitions of the tide, continuing to write the grand tales of Shenzhen, sweet ordinary stories in China and the legends of quantitive nobodies who are pursuing their dreams.

1此次到访鹏城，正是参加金砖会议分论坛活动——世界创新者大会，机器人、新硬件、人工智能……深圳被标记为“中国的科技创新中心”，这里有中国最大通讯制造商华为的海思芯片，中国最大互联网企业腾讯的移动社交平台，中国最大的新能源汽车企业比亚迪的电动车，这分别代表着现代科技产业三大领域——IT硬件创新、移动互联网、新能源智能汽车的顶尖水平。这份创新名单上，还列着基因研究、中国手机触摸屏、医疗器械、民用无人机、激光器械等方向的中国最领先公司……还有在A股上市公司中，最多的民营科技企业。

可以说，深圳的创业创新风气，创业板的强力金融支持，IT制造业领域内的强大产业链生态，在中国经济迈向中高端的升级地图中，扮演着无可取代的角色。

2 国人熟悉改革开放那段特殊的“春天的故事”，改革开放总设计师邓小平在南海边画了一个圈，深圳奇迹般崛起。当蛇口工业区竖起“时间就是金钱，效率就是生命”的标语牌，这片热土上的改革者们以义无反顾的决绝，投入这场人类历史上最大规模的现代化建设之中，为中国与世界留下鲜明的印记。

下榻酒店地处华侨城，窗外不远即是世界之窗，林罗着世界各国精华景致，也容纳着年轻的激情和狂欢。彼时的中国正在沉睡，但深圳是个异类，人们渴望到深圳呼吸开放的空气，带着打量的目光、迈着谨慎的脚步、保持紧绷的神经，偷窥下外面的繁华世界。如今，中国城市开放经济建设遍地开花，“一带一路”建设引领下，中国全方位对外开放新格局已然成型，各地各城市主动对接“一带一路”，充满活力、内外联动的经济格局中，中国与世界早已“你中有我，我中有你”。而在全球经济的汪洋大海中，先行一步的深圳，仍在以“深圳速度”，改写着中国与世界的关系。

3 在深圳市博物馆，引导讲解的工作人员介绍深圳的地图模型，充满骄傲地告诉来宾：我们每周都要更新我们背诵的新数据，每隔一个月就会动态调整模型图，因为深圳建设的速度实在太快。

站在莲花山上望去，除了简体和繁体的招牌能看出些许差异，其余深圳河两岸的深圳和香港，高楼林立、繁华如常，已无太大差异。香港与深圳以各自魅力，吸引着年轻人前来挥洒创新的热情与汗水，不过富有反思精神的港人也会感慨，深圳已经在某些领域后发先至，比如手机制造。而如今的粤港澳大湾区建设，也为香港与深圳、内地的融合发展，提供了历史性机遇。

4 当然，深圳并未沉睡自得。关于高房价，关于文化沙漠等说法的反思和行动也在持续。一方面官方持续推出吸引容纳人才的系列新政，一方面推动开展广泛的志愿者行动、建设流动图书馆等涵育深圳市民的文化品格。当我问一位深圳来京求学的同学，你作为深圳人对深圳印象最深的是什么？她的回答正是：遍布城市角落的流动图书馆。

大时代与小人物，时代大潮的深沉荣辱中，深圳续写宏阔的时代叙事、暖心的中国故事和无数平凡小人物的追梦传奇。

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