Shenzhen is China's fourth largest city, with mountains and rivers in Hong Kong. In just 27 years, Shenzhen from a small fishing village into a modern city beginning to take shape, creating the world's urbanization, industrialization and modernization miracle.
Shenzhen is China's ports have the largest and only sea and air ports of the city, is interacting with the world, one of the major portals, has strong economic support and the modernization of urban infrastructure. Shenzhen, the city's comprehensive competitiveness of mainland cities ranked first. By 2010, Shenzhen will be built into China's high-tech industrial base and a regional financial center, information center, business center, transportation center and tourist destination, will become a modernized international city.
Shenzhen will host in 2011 the 26th World University Games.
December 7, 2008, Shenzhen was listed by UNESCO Creative Cities Network the world's recognized as the "design capital", becoming China's first city to be so honored.