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Though officially a "district" this 15 square kilometer are can be seen as city. Planning approval for this got only in 2012. Built adjacent to Shenzhen which itself was a ground up city china built between Guangdong and hongkong only few decades back.

Almost all the buildings you see were built in last 8-9 years or so.

 

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Shenzhen already had close ties to neighbouring HongKong and was a conduit for Chinese to escape into HK.

It was merely given status similar to an autonomous zone (but not like HongKong/Taiwan), and it wasn't until 1997 that Chinese drew up an agreement for HK handover that people started settling in Shenzhen in large numbers, and since it was already an SEZ for almost 20yrs at that point, investments began to flow. And the rest is history.

Shenzhen was not built as a greenfield city, ready for plug n play by investors. It took decades for Shenzhen to be the industrial powerhouse that it is today. and some geographical luck too with industries from a thriving HK moving to Shenzhen to cut costs from early 2000s.

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16 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

Almost all the buildings you see were built in last 8-9 years or so.

you are talking about Shenzhen here. Not some shiny new town that is built too woo investors.

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4 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

you are talking about Shenzhen here. Not some shiny new town that is built too woo investors.

He's talking as if china built a city nowhere in middle but in reality they are building cities in places with an already established economic base .

Companies were already there , they are just building residential areas around places with jobs 

Also their union government throws its entire weight behind city building projects , that's why China is the only place where some Greenfield cities are successful 

 

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27 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

Though officially a "district" this 15 square kilometer are can be seen as city. Planning approval for this got only in 2012. Built adjacent to Shenzhen which itself was a ground up city china built between Guangdong and hongkong only few decades back.

Almost all the buildings you see were built in last 8-9 years or so.

 

Thammudu Shenzhen was once an SEZ built near hongkong just like sricity near Chennai . 

Then china thought we have so many jobs here let's develop a city for the workers and they expanded on that for decades . 

Cities that prop up nowhere end up like ordos 

https://youtu.be/mpYYOlooZQ4

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you bring all silly examples to prove your point that Amaravati was not a disaster as an idea.

that pak town you posted yesterday was cringe enough. but this one is even worse.

read up on history of Shenzhen and Guangzhou (not guangdong which is the province), and show me parallels with Amaravati.. If anything, they may have parallels with a few east godavari towns close to Vizag..

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14 minutes ago, Raven_Rayes said:

Shenzhen already had close ties to neighbouring HongKong and was a conduit for Chinese to escape into HK.

It was merely given status similar to an autonomous zone (but not like HongKong/Taiwan), and it wasn't until 1997 that Chinese drew up an agreement for HK handover that people started settling in Shenzhen in large numbers, and since it was already an SEZ for almost 20yrs at that point, investments began to flow. And the rest is history.

Shenzhen was not built as a greenfield city, ready for plug n play by investors. It took decades for Shenzhen to be the industrial powerhouse that it is today. and some geographical luck too with industries from a thriving HK moving to Shenzhen to cut costs from early 2000s.

Nee thalakayile. shenzen is a greenfield city. It is built adjacent to HK but not as adjacent as Amaravati is to vjiaywada which is like 2-3 kms at the edges.

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4 minutes ago, Ryzen_renoir said:

He's talking as if china built a city nowhere in middle but in reality they are building cities in places with an already established economic base .

Companies were already there , they are just building residential areas around places with jobs 

Also their union government throws its entire weight behind city building projects , that's why China is the only place where some Greenfield cities are successful 

 

he's trying too hard to justify his slavish devotion to the idea of a 'high class' sustainable city, without actually someone doing the back breaking, decades long work of building financial, industrial and social institutions.

In fact Shenzhen was initially mooted as a financial hub, but the idea was quickly discarded because it made no sense to develop financial hub without actual financial transactions happening there. lol.

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1 minute ago, Telugodura456 said:

Nee thalakayile. shenzen is a greenfield city. It is built adjacent to HK but not as adjacent as Amaravati is to vjiaywada which is like 2-3 kms at the edges.

Vijaywada lo emi formal economy undhi thammudu ? Except Agri related activities.

Potential kooda emi undhi it's not even near ports  unlike shenzen which was initially developed around  port based economy.

The more you compare the more you are contradicting yourself. 

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38 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

Though officially a "district" this 15 square kilometer are can be seen as city. Planning approval for this got only in 2012. Built adjacent to Shenzhen which itself was a ground up city china built between Guangdong and hongkong only few decades back.

Almost all the buildings you see were built in last 8-9 years or so.

 

Bro turkey new city gurinchi kuda eyyi masthundhi plan.

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3 minutes ago, Telugodura456 said:

Nee thalakayile. shenzen is a greenfield city. It is built adjacent to HK but not as adjacent as Amaravati is to vjiaywada which is like 2-3 kms at the edges.

Shenzhen was declared as SEZ by 1980 itself. It wasn't until the impending HK handover that buildings sprung in Shenzhen. Until then, it was only a supplier of allied industrial goods to HK which was the manufacturing powerhouse until the 90s. What Chinese govt created in Shenzhen was industrial infrastructure, not a greenfield city. The city rose around the industries much later in the early 2000s.

Was Amaravati declared an SEZ, before the buildings would come up there? Does Amaravati have any history of being a labour intensive industrial town?

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