Shenzhen is a costal city. With a long and beautiful coast, she faces Hong Kong over the Shenzhen River and joins Dongguan and Huizhou to the north. Shenzhen features a warm and humid climate, with annual average temperature of 220C, and enjoys favorable natural environment.
Strolling on streets in Shenzhen, you are welcomed by a strong sense of fashion, modernization and harmony.
The top greening ratio in China
Presently, Shenzhen’s urban greening ratio has reached 51.1%, with 16.01m2 of green area per person, ranking top among other cities of the country. With 218 parks and 5,000 hectares of ecological scenic forests, she takes the lead in both the area and quantity of greening compared with like cities of China and abroad. No matter where you are in this city, you are in the reach of the green land or a park within 500 meters.
? Perfect Urban Facilities
In respect of public transportations, Shenzhen invested RMB 11 billion in 2005 in transportation infrastructure. The Municipality made great efforts comprehensively promoting designated express channels for public transportation on main trunk roads, and carrying out trial research on “express public transportation system”, with an aim to increase the transportation rate and burden-sharing ratio, and forge an express public transportation system with metro as the backbone, and above-ground short lines and express lines as the supplements.
Shenzhen is also very active in developing public facilities. Since 2002, Shenzhen has launched the directly drinkable water scheme, which is scheduled to send directly drinkable water to every household within 8 years, so as to improve the construction standards of Shenzhen as an international city.
Paradise for Shopping
Currently, Shenzhen has over 200,000 commercial network points, among which, there are 102,122 retail network points, accounting for 51% of total. According to the relevant survey based on a population of 10 million, the Shenzhen people own 1.02m2 commercial area per person, and every 30,000 people share one large-sized department store, approaching the standards of developed countries, such as the United States. In Shenzhen, you can find the largest single unit department store, MOI Department Store, a commercial cluster with flocks of crowds. And, Dongmen, the most famous commercial street of Shenzhen City, Huangqiangbei, as well as the fashionable MixC, the Kingglory Plaza, and the largest professional electronics market, SEG Plaza… There are up to ten prosperous commercial centers in Shenzhen, and the development of chain retail stores, shops, and community supermarkets rewards visitors and the residents with easier shopping experiences. You need not go abroad and you can buy almost all world-class commodities in a comfortable shopping environment. Shenzhen is no doubt a paradise for shopping.
23m2 Living Area Per Person
Shenzhen has taken the lead to terminate the material housing distribution system, and replaced it with monetary distribution of housing. The government only invests to construct residential buildings with social security nature, and have all other adjustments made after the motivation of markets. Nowadays, most Shenzhen residential households have one apartment at least. Till the end of 2004, average living area per person in Shenzhen reached 23m2, which greatly exceeded the standard for a well-off household (9m2 per person).
Shenzhen pays great attention to the harmonious development of the society, economy, urban construction and population, resources, and the environment. The city has been awarded titles including “China’s Best 10 Cities for Greening”, “National Garden City”, “Nations in Bloom”, and “National Greening Pioneer”. At present, Shenzhen has been on her way of thriving development with the aim of building Shenzhen into an “ecological city with high tastes”.