Aloysius Mosha (L), a co-author of “The Story of Shenzhen: Its Economic, Social and Environmental Transformation,” who is an architecture and planning professor at a Botswana university, speaks at a press conference held by the U.N.-Habitat to launch the book in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, on Monday. Chen Jinhai (R), executive vice head of the publicity department of Shenzhen, attended the press conference. As part of the 1st U.N.-Habitat Assembly that kicked off Monday, the book, which documents the rapid development of Shenzhen in the past 40 years, was launched to enable other countries to learn lessons from the story. Shenzhen’s GDP exceeded 2.4 trillion yuan (US$353 billion) in 2018, ranking among top five in Asia.Xinhua

Sun Yuchen