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Shenzhen, Wade-Giles romanization Shen-chen, city, south-central Guangdong sheng (province), southeastern China. It lies along the coast of the South China Sea and immediately north of Hong Kong. In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong. That year, it was declared a special economic zone—i.e., one of ...

The Xinmin City (新民市; 'new residents city'), formerly Xinmin County (新民县) before 1993, is a county-level city and contains the westernmost part of the Greater Shenyang area, and by far the most spacious of any county-level divisions of Shenyang with an area of 3,297 km 2 (1,273 sq mi), with a registered population of 690,703 (2014).

Established in 1930, dissolved in 1945, and incorporated into Shandong Province. Shandong is the second most populous province of China, after Guangdong, just slightly ahead of Henan, with a population of more than 101,527,453 at the 2020 Chinese census. Over 99% of Shandong's population is Han Chinese.

Prolific Writer: Shen Congwen. Shen Congwen (1902-1988), originally named Shen Yuehuan, was born and bred in Tuojiang Town, Fenghuang County in Hunan Province. He was a great modern Chinese writer as well as a research scholar of historical cultural relics. More than seventy kinds of various works, with a total of more than five million ...