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HONG KONG-SHENZHEN
Road
Railroad
GUANGDONG
Urbanized area
DONGGUAN
Special Economic Zone
Municipality
0
5
10 Kilometers
Gongming
PROVINCE
0
5 Miles
Songgang
Pingdi
Guanlan
Longgang
Pingshan
Shiyan
Pinghu
Henggang
Fuyong
Longhua
Kuichang
Dapeng
SHENZHEN
Buji
Yantian
SEZ
Shenzhen
Shatoujiao
Nantou
Shekou
NEW TERRITORIES
XIANGGANG SAR
(Hong Kong)
Tuen Mun
T Tsing Yi
Hong Kong
International
Airport
T Tsing Ma
Bridge
Kowloon
Kwun
Tong
CHINA
GUANGDONG
Victoria
Lantau
Island
Xianggang
(Hong Kong)
Island
Guangzhou
Shenzhen SEZ
Tung Lung
Island
Zhuhai SEZ
XIANGGANG SAR
MACAU SAR
Zhanjiang
Lamma
Island
Po T Toi
Island Group
Figure 11-17
Hong Kong (Xianggang) Region. Here you can see the relationship between Hong Kong and
Shenzhen SEZ in Guangdong Province. Most of the businesses in this region are funded by
Hong Kong business people. From H. J. de Blij and P . O. Muller, Geography: Realms, Regions, and
Concepts, 14th Edition, 2010, p. 500. Originally rendered in color. H.J. de Blij and P .O. Muller.
Reprinted with permission of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
thousands of factories moved there from Hong Kong to
take advantage of cheap land and labor. Workers poured
in, especially from Guangdong and Guangxi-Zhuang Au-
tonomous Region. The former fishing and duck-farming
community grew to nearly 4 million, and Shenzhen took
on the appearance of high-rise Hong Kong with corpo-
rate offices, hotels, department stores, and gambling
casinos.
Geographer Chi Kin Leung (1993) found that the
subcontracting activities of Hong Kong were widely dis-
tributed in the Zhujiang Delta with Shenzhen and
Guangzhou two of the major centers. Leung discovered
that existing kinship and established business ties were
even more important than proximity in forging these
links. Another factor was the efforts of Chinese authori-
ties to attract foreign investment into the Delta. An inter-
dependency has arisen, with Hong Kong relying on
low-cost labor to maintain its export competitiveness,
and the Delta depending on Hong Kong' s technological
and marketing expertise to procure overseas markets.
 
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