Shenzhen in 1980

Posted by david on Feb 3, 2013 in Blog | 0 comments

Interesting gallery of 1980 photos of Shenzhen, two years after the beginning of the reform era.  Amazing how the sleepy border town of a few thousand has transformed into a 12 million strong metropolis.   Recall Lo Wu Bridge wasn’t even that fancy when I crossed it in 1974 en route to Beijing for school. 

  http://www.businessinsider.com/old-photos-of-shenzhen-2013-2#first-this-is-what-the-city-looks-like-today-shenzhen-is-now-one-of-the-fastest-growing-cities-in-the-world-1