Exploring the urban villages of Shenzhen, the Chinese city known for tech
June 3, 2026
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as posted by the channelShenzhen is China’s tech capital—headquarters of Huawei, BYD and Tencent among others. It also has exceedingly crowded urban villages, which reveal the city’s very short history. In 1980 no city existed here at all, just farms and villages.
Then China declared it a special economic zone. The fields became factories and the villages filled with much of the housing for 17 million residents.
To this day, many live in “handshake buildings,” so close to one another that residents could reach out a window to shake hands with someone on the other side of a narrow street.
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