《深圳市地图(英中对照2009版)》讲述了：Located in the south of Guangdong Province and with a coastline of 230kilometers, Shenzhen is a beautiful coastal city bordering on Hong Kong and Macau.Shenzhen enjoys the pleasant subtropical oceanic climate with abundant rain and fullsunshine, the annual average temperature is 22. 3℃,　the recorded highesttemperature is 38.7℃（2 and the recorded lowest temperature is 0.2℃. There areflowers and green lawns all the year round.

Only in January of 1979 was Shenzhen given the status of a city, and only inAugust of 1980 did Shenzhen become Special Economic Zone. It is a young city,and now exercises jurisdiction over 6 districts at county level, namely: Luohu, Futian,Nanshan and Yantian within the SEZ, and Bao'an, Longgang, outside the Zone.The total area is 1952.84 square kilometers, of which the SEZ area is 327.5 squarekilometers. In the end of 2008, the registered residents were 2.2807 million, andthe permanent population was over 8.7683 million.

Shenzhen is a city of migrants and a forthgoing city in reform and opening.Relying on the advanced cultural and geographic conditions, it radiates a kind ofstunning charm in every field. With the rapid economic progress, Shenzhen nowholds the leading position among big and medium-sized cities in China, whichcreates an unusual miracle in the world's industrialization and modernization history.Shenzhen now prevails over other cities in the fields of logistics, finance, hi-techindustry and tourism. The more important is that it holds the concept of "open,equal and human-oriented" and has the multi-culture advantage, compared withother cities. Shenzhen's development not only rapidly changes the city's look, butalso takes a guiding example for other cities' reform,opening and economicdevelopment, and makes a great contribution to the Hong Kong's and Macau'ssmooth return to the motherland and their stable development.

Shenzhen is also a beautiful city. Strolling along large streets and small lanesaround Shenzhen, you will at any moment enjoy the warm of green leaves and theromance of flowers; staying by the seashore, you will feel the bosom of sea and thecarefulness of waves.

With the Shenzhen Spirit of "Exploitation and innovation, honesty and lawabidance, pragmatism and efficiency, unity and dedication", Shenzhen erectorscreate the surprising "Shenzhen benefit" and "Shenzhen speed", thus constructingan old-time border town into a modern international metropolis.

Shenzhen, "Model of the times", shows all its rich fruits in reform and opening,w_hile it is walking forward to the resplendence step by step.