Shun Hing Square

This guide to Shun Hing Square in Shenzhen begins in 1992, when an aging Deng Xiaoping made his southern tour to reignite the economic reforms he had launched years earlier, with Shenzhen as his proof the experiment could still work. It follows the record-setting land auction that came after his visit, the buyers who named the plot Diwang, or land king, and the pace of construction that followed. Look up at the tower rising above you, built in the wave of investment his visit set off.