Jiaochangwei Beach

This guide to Jiaochangwei Beach in Shenzhen starts on a drill yard where soldiers from the nearby Dapeng Fortress trained more than six hundred years ago, guarding the coast against pirates. It follows the story into 1839, when General Lai Enjue sailed from here to face a British fleet off Kowloon, and traces how the fishing village behind the beach was later abandoned, then quietly reclaimed by a new generation. Time your visit for early evening, when the water and sky settle into one color.