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| A street in Shenzhen. |
Shenzhen was once a fishing city but has now transformed into a mega-city right across the border from Hong Kong. Now highly populated by locals, who were generations before farmers and fishermen, and migrants who arrive at the city in search for work opportunities, Shenzhen's landscape has transformed into one of many industries and what locals call "handshake houses," apartment complexes located so close to each other that one can shake hands with someone in the next complex.
The Shenzhen locals have grown extremely wealthy by transforming their farms into apartments and leasing them out to the influx of migrants that is constantly entering the city. The mindset of "looking down" upon migrants seems to be ubiquitous in China, where migrants are considered of a "lower" class than native Shenzhen citizens.
"China Urbanization: Shenzhen." PRI: The World. Reported by Mary Kay Magistad.
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