Definitions
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- A city of southern China in Guangdong province on the Pearl River Delta southeast of Guangzhou.
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- proper noun A sub-provincial city in the south-east of
China , the third largest city, in the province ofGuangdong .
Etymologies
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Examples
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SHENZHEN: China's Nasdaq-like growth enterprises board, called ChiNext, was inaugurated in Shenzhen on Friday, opening a new channel for companies to raise capital.
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SHENZHEN: China's Nasdaq-like growth enterprises board, called ChiNext, was inaugurated in Shenzhen on Friday, opening a new channel for companies to raise capital.
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The electronics supplier Foxconn, whose gigantic compound in Shenzhen turns out components for Apple, Dell, HP, and countless other companies and which had recently employed more than 250,000 workers, sent all its employees on a one-month unpaid furlough late last year.
China's Way Forward 2009
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And the world's biggest golf course is in Shenzhen, China, where the Mission Hills Golf Club has a dozen 18-hole courses.
Golf Deal Part of Growing Chinese Links to Japan Inc. Mariko Sanchanta 2010
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The only one that knew of Liu before, a 28-year-old interpreter living here in Shenzhen that I know quite well, said she'd only heard about him a few months before the 2008 Olympics when Hu Jia, another activist sometimes thought of as a possible Nobel prize candidate, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for "subversion of state power."
Michael Standaert: Liu Xiaobo: Prisoner of Consciousness? Michael Standaert 2010
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Jieling is a new resident in Shenzhen, China, where the economy is already in turmoil after massive deaths due to a bird flu plague.
REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #26 edited by Gardner Dozois 2009
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Its domestic rival Nebulae, housed in Shenzhen, was at that time ranked second, capable of sustained computing of 1.271 petaflops.
China's Tianhe-1A takes supercomputer crown from US Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010
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Unlisted Universtar Science and Technology, based in Shenzhen, supplies pollution monitoring and water treatment products.
China's Best 'Up-And-Coming' Businesses Russell Flannery 2010
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Around the same time, the Taiwanese-owned Foxconn electronics plant in Shenzhen, which assembles Apple iPhones and iPads, was struck by 10 suicides among its workers and three suicide attempts, which labor activists blamed on the stress of long overtime hours.
Wave of Labor Unrest in China Signals End of Cheap Labor | Impact Lab 2010
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The only one that knew of Liu before, a 28-year-old interpreter living here in Shenzhen that I know quite well, said she'd only heard about him a few months before the 2008 Olympics when Hu Jia, another activist sometimes thought of as a possible Nobel prize candidate, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for "subversion of state power."
Michael Standaert: Liu Xiaobo: Prisoner of Consciousness? Michael Standaert 2010
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