The Case of Shenzhen or How a Small Fishing Village Has Become China’s Technology Incubator

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There are cities that are built for centuries and others that are invented in decades. Shenzhen is one of the second. Walking along its eight-lane avenues, flanked by glass skyscrapers and vertical gardens, it is hard to believe that what today is considered the technological capital of China (not a few are those that raise its magnitude) less than half a century ago was a set of fishing villages on the banks of the Pearl River, where the inhabi…