As the cradle of the PRC's economic reforms, the success of the "Guangdong experience" became the template for China's coastal cities. Shenzhen was transformed in less than a generation from a dusty fishing village into a thriving metropolis bristling with highrises, in much the same way that neighboring Hong Kong was changed a century ago.
身為中國大陸改革開放的先鋒陣地，「廣東經驗」的成功，成了所有中國沿海都會的樣版，而珠江口上的深圳，一如對門的百年前的香港，不過短短一個世代不到，就從灰撲撲的小漁村到如今高樓聳立，燈紅酒綠。