In a single lifetime, a county of farms and fishing villages next to Hong Kong became a city of ~18 million and a ~¥3.9-trillion economy. Step through the decades to watch how Shenzhen grew, and what it made along the way.
Pick a decade. The shaded footprint expands from the original 1980 zone (the southern strip along the Hong Kong border) to the whole municipality, and the industries of that era light up.
The same value-chain climb the whole country made — run at fast-forward, in one city.