Shenzhen

• (from Wade–Giles) Shen-chen

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 深圳 (Shēnzhèn), from 深 (shēn, “deep”) + 圳 (zhèn, “irrigation ditch”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɛnˈd͡ʒɛn/, /ˌʃɛnˈʒɛn/

Shenzhen

1. A major sub-provincial city in Guangdong, in southeastern China.
   • 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.

   • 2006, November 8, China Daily

     Shenzhen municipal government will give top priority to developing its modern logistics and finance sectors and building the industries into the city's pillar sectors in the following years.

   • 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China‎, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, LCCN 2008012880, OCLC 963510224, page 29:

     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.

   • 2009, Li, Lanqing, “The Birth of Special Economic Zones”, in Ling Yuan; Zhang Siying, transl., Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-Up Policy‎, →ISBN, OCLC 456837151, page 122:

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

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• (from Cantonese) Shumchun, Shum-chun, Shamchun, Sham Chun

Shenzhen

1. Shenzhen (a major sub-provincial city in Guangdong, in southeastern China)