Tag: Population

  • Shenzhen Before Shenzhen (5/5)

    The City Without People From the Great Clearance to Artificial Intelligence: An Alternative Future for Shenzhen’s Population and Economy I. The First Great Clearance Beginning in 1661, the eighteenth year of the Shunzhi reign, the Qing government implemented a policy of coastal evacuation to sever connections between the inhabitants of southeastern China and the maritime…