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PAPER MAGAZINE June 2015 WeChat: Paper online: CONTENTS PAPER www.neo-ads.com/paper 26 yummy 10 29 star chef 31 cru 32 cheers 34 supremos Contact Raly Tejada, the youthful, self-effacing Consul General of the Philippines in Guangzhou, speaks passionately Tel: (8620) 8365 2811 about heeding his country's call to serve. Email: [email protected] 36 out n about Chief Operating Officer: LC Chau 37 living 04 city window Director: Italiana Granni 05 diary 38 destination Consulting Director: Allan Au 40 bulletin Editing Consultant: May Guan 09 arts & events Editor in Chief: Diane Fermin Roeder 10 cover story Guest Editor: Ben Chu Today the fates of Hong Kong and Shenzhen are 37 Financial Controller: Takuto intertwined under the "One Country, Two System" Marketing Director: Shirley Xie Mazeaud arrangement - a tale of two cities. Marketing Manager: Ambro Chow, Rita Shi 14 fortune Marketing Executive: Purple Liu 16 jetsetter Designers: Hrioly, Eric Wong This summer, escape Hong Kong's urban jungle Publication Co-coordinator: Nana Cheung and discover its wild, natural side with these cool 30 Photographer: Leona, Rita camping venues! 18 eureka 16 Contributors: 20 auto Allan CW Au, Brad Phillips, Dr. Clive Fermin, GiGi Chik, John Chu, Lena Liu, Ria Joo, 22 muse Ronda Chua, Roy Moorfield, Steve Tremblay, 23 fighting fit Yuyao.K. 24 athlete June 2015 A Tale of Two Cities: SHENZHEN HONG KONG 4 PAPER MAGAZINE city window Good Karma Good Ol’ Days A group of Guangzhou-based NGOs have Shenzhen’s Chung Ying Street used to be known as worked in joint effort with a local insurance Anglo-Sino Border Street with a brisk trade business company to award 300,000 grants to the in the period before Hong Kong’s handover to China. public (the largest valued at RMB 50,000) Since the enforcement of the new policy restricting to encourage good Samaritans. Shenzhen citizens from multiple entries to Hong Kong in a year to “once weekly”, this 500m street has experienced a 20% tourism resurgence. Green Gala Airport Express Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition The New Nansha District, Guangzhou’s supposed Center saw the opening of the 11th future free trade zone, will benefit from an International Culture Industry Fair (ICIF) on updated rail traffic network, expected to cut the May 14 with no heavy traffic, as there were commute between New Nansha District and with no road closure or private parking lots Baiyun Airport only a 40-minute ride by metro. The set in particular near the venue area. project is to start by the end of 2015. Dragon Boozing Floodzilla While Guangzhou had Floodzilla, Shenzhen The sudden heavy rainstorm which engulfed experienced for only the second time in 5 years Guangzhou in a flood of a mess in May the bizarre weather phenomenon known captured the imagination of netizens who locally as “The water-sucking dragon”, or later Photoshopped a news photo of the technically speaking, the waterspout, with dark skies above Zhujiang New Town to an the Shenzhen Bao’an Airport a particular apocalyptic scenario resembling the latest focus with the “waterspout” raging right Avengers or Godzilla movie. above the nearby Zhujiang River. Fashion Forward The Guangzhou International Textile Trade Bling Babe Center was awash with vigor when a fierce China’s stock market continues to spawn fashion design competition between art a vast list of young tycoons. Early May school students throughout China was put witnessed the debut of Ms. Zhou Qunfei on show. from Shenzhen LENS Technology as “China’s wealthiest woman” when her company went public. HSD Party @ Garden Hotel Guangzhou Asia Pacific American Heritage @ Garden Hotel Guangzhou Secret to Muay Thai Spirit @ Garden Hotel Guangzhou SHOCKWAVE Pool Party @ W Guangzhou B4 Under-beat @ W Guangzhou JW Marriott Shenzhen-BANG! Campaign Winner Opens Tofu Boutique Adventure on the Silk Road - Amcham Spring Ball @ Garden Hotel Guangzhou arts & events PAPER MAGAZINE 9 The 5th P&P Go Kart Cup 2015 Le Corbusier : Modern Architect Fete de la Musique Put your pedal to the metal! Organized by The China- Italy Chamber of Commerce, the event will be a unique Giant networking and team-building event. Le Corbusier (1887-1965) was a man of many talents - a visual artist, writer, architect, designer and city planner. This exhibition offers a journey through the sixty years he spent creating his oeuvre in an attempt to discover more about a man who wanted to tirelessly redraw a more beautiful and better world. Date: Sunday to Friday, 14 June to 31 July 2015 Venue: OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen French DJ Micka takes centre stage at 8 Faubourg for a night of celebration, music and French objets. Music is Magnifique at Sofitel! Date:Friday, 19 June 2015 Date: Saturday, 6 June 2015 Time: 8 pm Time: 8 am to 5 pm Venue: 8 Fauborg, Sofitel Guangzhou Sunrich Venue: Extreme Speedway, Shangnan East Road, Huangpu Village, Tickets: RMB 150 + 15% per person, includes canapes and welcome Shajing, Bao'an District, Shenzhen drink Tickets: RMB 500/pax; Non-member: RMB 650/pax For more information, call (+86 20) 3883 8888 Spectator Ticket: RMB 300/pax For registration, email [email protected] David Guetta Listen Tour Hong Kong VIALKA’s Gypsy folk concert Road to Ultra Macau 2015 The Vialka duo has maintained a significant and lasting Don’t miss out on being part of Asia's biggest dance relationship with the new music movement in China, The unofficial godfather of EDM returns to Hong Kong music party this summer with Nicky Romero , Porter since its first tour in 2003. Vialka returns this time with after releasing his 6th genre-bending studio album - Robinson, 2manydjs, DVBBS and many more incredible a new show, adapted for libraries and multi-media Listen - which includes acts! centres. global smash hit “Hey Date: Saturday to Sunday, Mama.” Get ready to Date: Tuesday, 30 13 to 14 June 2015 party! June 2015 Time: 8 pm Time: 8 pm Venue: Club Cubic, City of Date: Sunday, 14 June 2015 Venue: Shenzhen Old Dreams, Macau Time: 8 pm Heaven Library Tickets: MOP 880 Venue: Asiaworld Expo - Hall 10 For tickets: http://www. Tickets: HKD 580, 880 roadtoultra.com/macau. For tickets, visit www.hkticketing. php and http://www. com cubic-cod.com 2015 Guangzhou International Wine & Spirits Exhibition Food & Wine Experience @ Doubletree by Hilton Guangzhou Stefano Bonaccini, President of Emilia-Romagna Region Visits Guangdong 10 PAPER MAGAZINE cover story A Tale of Two Cities: SHENZHEN HONG KONG The History of Shenzhen There’s a common rhetoric about Shenzhen-that it’s a city without history that went from a sleeping fishing village overnight to a modern metropolis. It’s hard to fathom when viewing Shenzhen’s changing, skyscraping skyline but beneath the city’s breakneck modernity does lie a wealth of history. Shenzhen has actually been inhabited since the Neolithic Age, approximately 6,700 years ago. However, much of its early development occurred during the Xia and the Shang dynasties. Shenzhen was a base for the Nanyue tribe, a subset of the Baiyue tribe, known to have relied heavily on fishing and little cultivation. In 214 BC, Emperor Qinshihuang of the Qin Dynasty finally united China. As the first emperor, he merged Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiangjun, the area encompassing modern-day Guangdong and Guangxi. In order to bolster development, the emperor relocated 500,000 people from the central China plains to the south, diffusing much of the central plain culture into the south of China. During the Song Dynasty, Shenzhen, as resumed the name of Bao'an County. a coastal village, became an important In 1953, the Bao'an county seat moved hub for maritime trade especially in salt eastward to the Shenzhen Township. The and spices. The pearl industry began to Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway began take off in the Yuan Dynasty. Dongguan operating and ran through Shenzhen, and Dapeng military bases were set up industry and commerce began to prosper in the Shenzhen area during the Ming and resident communities emerged. Dynasty. With the Nantou Naval Base established on Nanshan Peninsula (south After Deng Xiaoping’s famous southern of Shenzhen) by 1565, the naval base China trip, in 1980, Shenzhen was was a monolithic military organization designated as the first Special Economic administering a large expanse of both Zone (SEZ) by the Central Committee land and water in the nearby region; of the CPC and the State Council and thus was deemed "the outpost of Humen also gained sub-provincial city status, and a protective screen for the provincial the same as Guangzhou - the capital of capital.'' Guangdong province. In 1573, Xin'an county was established Since then, Shenzhen has not looked The History of Hong edge of the Chinese empire, it was – the backbone of what is modern-day back. From an original population of perhaps, inevitable, that its fates would be Shenzhen and Hong Kong. Nantou, its 30,000, Shenzhen grew into a sprawling Kong intertwined with Canton destiny. county seat, was a commercial center behemoth of 12 million people in 2005, a demographic comprised of an Hong Kong has been inhabited since dealing in salt, tea, spices, and rice. the late Stone Age but when it became Regular trade between China and astonishing 99% migrants. Europe had begun in 1557 when As Imperial China fell, Xin'an County an integral part of the Chinese empire is difficult to say. What is certain is that Portuguese navigators set up a base in by the time of the Eastern Han dynasty Macau. The Dutch followed, then the (AD 25–220), Chinese imperial rule had French and finally, the British in 1685.