I visited Shenzhen, China the city that started as a small fishing village in 1980 and became one of the most advanced megacities on Earth in just 40 years. But how?
\nIn 1980, the Chinese government chose Shenzhen as their experiment, a Special Economic Zone where they tested free markets, foreign investment, and private enterprise inside a communist system. It was their controlled test of capitalism. And it worked beyond anything they imagined.
\nOver two days, I experienced the products of that experiment firsthand:
\n\ud83d\ude84 The world’s largest high-speed rail network, bigger than every other country combined
\n\ud83d\ude97 A fully electric ride-share system that costs almost nothing
\n\ud83d\ude81 A live drone delivery race against a human rider
\n\ud83c\udfe2 DJI headquarters, the company that owns 70% of the world’s drone market
\n\ud83d\udcf1 ByteDance, the building behind TikTok and the algorithm that rewrote global social media
\n\ud83d\ude87 A subway station so futuristic locals call it “The Eye of Shenzhen”
\n\u26a1 BYD, the EV factory that just overtook Tesla in global sales
\n\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f An American who left the US to live here, and why
\nThis isn’t just a travel video. It’s an investigation into what made Shenzhen so successful, what the rest of the world could learn from it, and what it actually feels like to walk around a city that genuinely feels like the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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