Four months prior to its handover to the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong still used to be a British colony and the view to Shenzhen was a view across the border. In 1979, Shenzhen's population merely amounted to about 30,000 people. Nowadays, Shenzhen is one of the fastest growing cities in the world with a population of more than 10 million people.
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