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p1: Jam and their colleague Phil stand in Shenzhen's town centre, looking up at towering skyscrapers.
In 1980, Shenzhen became the first of five "special economic zones" within China. These cities were afforded special trade privileges with the West. This allowed a small market town to swell rapidly into a factory megacity over a few short decades.
 

p2: A map locating Shenzhen on the Southern Coast of China.
Shenzhen's population is estimated at 20 million (with 12 million residents.) In 2017, the city's economic output was $338 Billion, which ranks third behind Shanghai and Beijing.
 

p3: A collection of electronic goods including a camera, a tablet, a small electric fan, a power bank, headphones, an mp3 player and a drone.
"Shenzhen has become a hotbed of electronics manufacturing and tech innovation. You can find all kinds of manufacturing experts within a small geographic area. It seems like anything you'd want to make can be made in Shenzhen with blinding speed.

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