Shenzhen

A privately-built illegal temple-like structure is seen on the top of a 20-story residential block in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

Mengyu is an international student from Shenzhen, China, who is studying business administration at the University of Goettingen in Germany.

As well as Hong Kong and Macao, the Pearl River Delta includes Chinese mainland mega-cities like Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Dongguan, and is home to some 22 million people.

Analysts say the bank needs support from local fintech giants and big retailers to build the infrastructure, including distribution channels for the national virtual currency, which is being tested in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

The Shanghai stock exchange gained 0.4 percent shortly before closing, while the Shenzhen composite remained virtually unchanged.

Encyclopædia Britannica In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.

Over the next two years, China set up four “special economic zones” as testing grounds for free-enterprise practices like foreign investment and tax incentives. The largest zone was Shenzhen, about fifty miles south of Dongguan, which quickly became a symbol of a freewheeling China always open for business. Shenzhen was a planned showcase city, willed into being by leaders in Beijing and supported by government ministries and the companies under them.

The tiny 0.8-square-kilometer Luohu District was where the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone really got off to a good start.

The blockage of the Suez Canal in March? No, there is another disruption in global shipping. This time, the problem lies in Shenzhen, a sprawling metropolis adjacent to Hong Kong in southeastern China.