Many excited Shenzhen residents got a chance to celebrate a victory of their own early this morning when Shenzhen was chosen as the host of the Summer Universiade in 2011.
The city has no doubt become well-known worldwide as an “overnight boomtown” following more than two decades of red-hot industrialization and urbanization. But Shenzhen knows it needs to hone its skills in international exchange if it wants to become a global metropolis, a goal the city has set itself to achieve in the future.
