At the same time, there are real economic incentives for getting out of Shenzhen.
The Universiade games were held in the mainland city of Shenzhen last year.
FORBES: Once-Improbable Sports Success Fuels Even Bigger Dreams In Taipei
At a Vanguard supermarket in an unfashionable part of Shenzhen, manager Hu Fan tries to satisfy traditional and modern tastes.
The 29-year-old native of central Hubei province has been working in the southern city of Shenzhen for the past five years.
"Wall Street is every entrepreneur's dream, " says Kit Tsui, chief executive of Shenzhen-based Industries International, a maker of telephones and lithium batteries.
It is based in the mainland city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong.
For one, the City of Shenzhen helps telecom-equipment maker Huawei, auto company BYD and their Pearl River Delta neighbors with their U.S. objectives.
Wang Laichun, 45, chairs and owns about a third of Shenzhen-listed Luxshare Precision Industry, a manufacturer of connectors whose customers include Apple.
FORBES: 2013 Forbes Billionaires List: Self-Made Chinese Women Below The Cut But On The Move
BYD, a private, Hong-Kong listed automaker based in Shenzhen, announced May 17 that it had put 40 all-electric taxis into service in the city of Shenzhen.
As for BYD, the domestic battery maker turned automaker, its electric cars have yet to find a market outside of public procurement in its home base of Shenzhen.
FORBES: China's Auto Industry Eyes Subsidies For Electric, Hybrid Cars
But employees said workers from other facilities, including Hon Hai's factories in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, recently were brought in to help with a large order.
WSJ: Hon Hai Riot Highlights Squeeze on Chinese Manufacturers
If the court finds that Apple has infringed on the trademark rights of Shenzhen Proview, its wildly popular iPad tablet computers will be banned from sale on the Chinese mainland.
Newbridge negotiated permission from municipal authorities in the southern city of Shenzhen, a progressive place by Chinese standards, to buy a stake in and take management control of a local bank.
In the southern China boom town of Shenzhen last month, four young women started up their own reporting team for a "shanzhai television station" that spoofs local news and uses a camera tripod fashioned from a fan stand and a toilet plunger.
Like a number of employees, Mr. Wang said he was frustrated because he has already spent five months in Taiyuan, and still has no certainty about when he can return to the boom town of Shenzhen, which he prefers to the more provincial, industrial city of Taiyuan.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
Its marbled headquarters in landscaped grounds is a world away from the chaos of nearby Shenzhen city.
Further down the road, said Brass, the group would be moving more of its Shenzhen business to new facilities in Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
In 2011, he took the position of chairman at Shenzhen-listed Xiwang Foodstuffs, the first listed corn oil company in China.
FORBES: China Mints Another Billionaire, Wang Yong, As Consumption Of Food Sweeteners Grows
Moreover, with Beijing having placed a moratorium on IPOs on exchanges in the cities of Shanghai and Shenzhen, and stock-trading volumes having been sluggish since the market crash, securities firms are keen to find new sources of revenue.
Sixth seed Li, who came into the Sydney tournament off the back of victory in Shenzhen, China, made Wimbledon runnerup Radwanska work for her triumph, saving an incredible seven match points before finally being beaten after one hour and 32 minutes.
China Vanke, the country's biggest real estate developer by market value, hit the daily up-limit of 10 percent on the Shenzhen bourse after announcing plans to shift trading of its foreign-currency shares to Hong Kong.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, prices have stabilized from August to September in expensive Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen for properties of all sizes.
In 2008, MediaTek supplied complete reference designs for phone chipsets, which enabled manufacturers in the Shenzhen region of China to produce phones at an unbelievable pace.
To plug labor shortage gaps and train workers, Foxconn has brought in a number of workers from a plant in Shenzhen, in southern China, and another in the central city of Zhengzhou, it said.
WSJ: Factory Riot at Hon Hai Foxconn Reflects New Labor Attitudes in China
Oriental Daily News says authorities are investigating after more than 200, 000 tonnes of rubbish was dumped illegally near a reservoir that will become Shenzhen's main source of drinking water next year.
Profit at Hong Kong-listed company plunged and it suffered from bad publicity at home one of its cars caught on fire after a collision in Shenzhen, which is located just north of Hong Kong.
FORBES: Warren Buffett-Backed Chinese Automaker BYD To Open U.S. Manufacturing Facilities
Singapore is establishing one, and Shanghai and Shenzhen, two of China's wealthiest cities, have just pioneered theirs.
On Oct. 1, the company raised the wages of its workers at its Shenzhen factory by about 66%.
应用推荐