Baoan Binhai Cultural Park

This guide to Baoan Binhai Cultural Park in Shenzhen traces the waterfront's four decades as the unglamorous back edge of the city's factory boom, when the "Three-Plus-One" model turned the bay into a service coastline for assembly lines. It follows what happened after the factories moved on, and the question Bao'an faced about what a waterfront is for once it stops making things. You'll hear about the tower now rising over the water and what its opening was meant to announce. Stand at the water's edge and look west toward the Pearl River estuary while you listen.