Shenzhen, a city that easily makes people feel "happy"

This time during my trip to Guangdong, I arrived in Shenzhen again, but I unexpectedly discovered a "big thing".

In this "window" city of reform and opening up, one of China's "four major first-tier cities", there is an important thing that is quietly "disappearing".

As usual, let’s talk about the key points first.

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After leaving Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport, I hailed a taxi. Within ten minutes, a white car with the logo of an online booking platform "squeaked" It stopped in front of me, and the driver got out of the cab to help me load my luggage, get in the car, put on my seat belt, and keep it steady, and the whole journey was under blue sky and white clouds. The driver was driving intently, and I just looked at the scenery outside the window.

At this moment, I suddenly discovered that many cars on the roads in Shenzhen had become "green cards."

Taxis have green cards, buses have green cards, road cleaning vehicles have green cards, and even trucks that pull goods and move things, many of them have green cards.

I asked the driver: Is this green car brand "unique to Shenzhen"?

The driver replied that it was a license plate dedicated to "electric vehicles" and that "basically all public vehicles in Shenzhen have been replaced by this brand."

The driver also told me: Now (October 2019), taxis in Shenzhen have basically been replaced by electric vehicles with green license plates, and there are only a few "gasoline taxis" left in Shenzhen. Hundreds of vehicles".

After getting off the bus, I stood at the intersection and observed for a few minutes. Really, there are almost no "blue card" taxis using gasoline on the streets of Shenzhen.

I suddenly realized that this is likely to become an "epoch-making" event: Shenzhen may become the first city in China where "gasoline taxis" disappear!

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The word "rapidly changing" is really appropriate when applied to a city like Shenzhen.

Shenzhen is developing too fast. I suddenly remembered that a few years ago, my neighbor's aunt once proudly "showed off" her son who was working in Shenzhen: He was very busy at work. He only had one day off a week and worked on Saturdays!

A few years later, I understood: It’s not that I’m not allowed to rest, but I can’t afford it. Everything in this city is booming. If I don’t pay attention, I will be “killed” by my colleagues and abandoned by the times.

Let’s talk about this trip. It’s the same taxi.

Halfway through, I turned my eyes away from the window and smacked my fingers at the meaning behind various "innovations", feeling filled with emotion. The driver was also very emotional and talked more.

But he always sat upright, with a smooth silk tie "stretched" straight to his throat, and a clean white shirt that was tightly stretched without even a trace of wrinkles, making his face calm and gentle. . I asked him: Do you have to dress like this?

He smiled, opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly stopped it, probably thinking that there was a recording in the car: Yes, the company stipulates that you must wear this way, just get used to it.

You will find that Shenzhen is a particularly "ruly" city.

At least among the many cities I have traveled to, Shenzhen ranks among the best in terms of its emphasis on and compliance with “rules.”

When taking the subway, everyone will line up quietly and wait on both sides, and rarely compete with passengers getting off the train to "get on";

When shopping, everyone will queue up consciously. I also encountered someone who jumped in line, and was immediately "resisted by everyone". Everyone worked together to "squeeze" the person who jumped in line to the back of the queue;

On the road, various vehicles were "eight feet high" "Far" away, we are ready to give way to pedestrians;

Even a deserted movie theater in the suburbs does not allow food that tastes "spicy" to be brought into the screening room...< /p>

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This city is very new. Like a "blank piece of paper", over the past decades, generations of young people have practiced and "completed" these rules here. It makes people feel comfortable and convenient.

Shenzhen’s parks are basically free. There are people from all over the world in the park. They each bring different folk customs of their hometowns and live together happily. The interaction and collision of various cultures and languages ??have formed a unique new Shenzhen.

This is a relatively "open" city. There will be no "restrictions" on online car-hailing. The streets here will never remain the same for decades. You may see something every time you go out. Something new that “brightens the eye”.

Shenzhen, a city that seeks common ground while reserving differences, also makes people feel at ease. No matter whether you work early or late, when you want a hot meal, there will always be a roadside shop open for you.

Buses in Shenzhen will run very late, and night buses run all night long. When you get on the bus at two o'clock in the morning, you will find that the people walking with you at night are the drivers who go out with folding bikes and helmets.

The bus driver will not blame their equipment for "taking up space", but will only politely remind them: put it in and don't block the passengers.

We both return home at night in the city, but who knows the autumn wind when we pity the desolation.

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After living in Shenzhen for a period of time, you may not be accustomed to changing to another city.

Many things in this city are "advanced", and various new things are often "piloted" and promoted here.

For example, the two unique "women-only carriages" in the Shenzhen subway are very user-friendly.

Although it seems that this carriage is useless unless there is an emergency, Shenzhen has never lacked the spirit of courage to try.

There are also some things that are "impossible" in the usual sense, but they are like a duck in water in Shenzhen.

For example, on a rainy night, I discovered the "*** umbrella" placed next to the stop sign - this kind of daily utensil that may be "smoothly" taken away, in However, Shenzhen was "arranged" clearly and obediently.

Most of the faces in this city are young. It is precisely because of their existence that Shenzhen is where Sakagami is today.

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Shenzhen is a city of immigrants. Everyone comes from all over the world. There is no so-called regional discrimination and no "foreigners". Among the first-tier cities in China, Shenzhen is the easiest to settle in. One of them, as long as you work hard, you will always have a place here. It is very "fair" and it is also easy for people to get a little "happiness":

Food from all over the country can be found here. See. Even if you were born in a remote mountain village, in Shenzhen, if you search, you may still be able to find that little shop that has a unique taste of your hometown that you have been used to eating since childhood.

When you enter that small restaurant with excitement, you will find that the boss there is really your old family member. He speaks a dialect that only the two of you understand and greets each other. It turns out that our ancestors are old acquaintances.

In Shenzhen, the probability of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land" is really high.

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Although Shenzhen is not perfect and has many shortcomings, this does not prevent it from being "nationally leading" in many aspects.

Shenzhen is a city that easily makes people feel happy. For more stories about it, let me break it down next time.

(Note: The pictures in this article were taken randomly during recent trips to Shenzhen.)

I am Sister Dahong, a travel FM anchor, a global travel experiencer, focusing on niche destinations. Share unpopular secrets. Travel is not an attitude, it is life itself.