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Revealed: City that leads in tech revolution

Modern skyscrapers housing corporations and ambitious startups tower over Shenzhen. [Photo: AFP]

The southern city of Shenzhen is the symbol of the transformative reforms launched by China 40 years ago: former fishing villages that morphed into a global manufacturing hub.

Today Shenzhen is again at the heart of a new policy aimed at turning China into a hi-tech innovator and shed its reputation as an assembly line for foreign companies or -- worse -- an imitator.

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