From factory floor to innovation hub, Shenzhen’s exponential growth continues
Amid the soaring glass towers and modern buildings of Shenzhen’s Futian CBD is a rare pocket of idiosyncratic low-rise buildings. The ramshackle structures of Gangxia village are known as “handshake buildings” after their densely packed formation, meaning neighbours could literally shake hands through facing windows.
Crammed full of tiny apartments, independent shops, food stalls and more, the “urban village” is bustling with life and atmosphere, providing affordable accommodation for the massive influx of migrants and low-income workers, a melting pot of street food cuisine from Hunan and Sichuan and shops catering to every possible need and want.
This charismatic settlement is one of the last of its kind, a symptom of the rapid changes that have seen Shenzhen turn from a collection of fishing villages with some 30,000 inhabitants into a metropolis of more than ten million people in less than 40 years.
However, Gangxia’s days are numbered. Occupying prime space in the heart of Shenzhen, it won’t be long before the city absorbs this urban village as it has many others. Happily for the owners of these dilapidated constructions, the payoff will be enough to set them up for life, with property prices in Shenzhen soaring to unheard-of figures.
“We call them billionaire villages,” jokes Grace Huang, marketing communications manager for Hilton Futian. “Property prices here used to be 10,000 yuan (₹1,03,224) per square metre, but now they’re 1,00,000 yuan (₹10,32,470). This is the only village left and according to government plans, it will be removed by 2019 or 2020, at the latest.”
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