Exploring Shenzhen's Spring Cocoon

Updated: 2011-07-28 09:07

By Huang Lan & Huan CAO (chinadaily.com.cn)

Shenzhen is the host city for the upcoming 26th Summer Universiade 2011.

Twenty-two new sports venues were built for the Universiade games.

The Shenzhen Bay Sports Center, also known as Spring Cocoon and the venue for the games' opening ceremony, is a dazzling addition to Shenzhen's tourism map.

 

Exploring Shenzhen's Spring Cocoon

 

Video: Huang Lan & Huan CAO

Voiceover: Chris Clark

Producer: Flora Yue

About Shenzhen

Shenzhen is located at the southern tip of the Chinese mainland on the eastern bank of the mouth of the Pearl River and neighbors Hong Kong.

The brainchild of Deng Xiaoping, the country's first special economic zone was established here by the Chinese Government in 1980. It has been a touchstone for China's reform and opening-up policy since then.