Opinion | Experimentation drives the Northern Metropolis – just as it did Shenzhen

– a massive tract of land spanning roughly a third of our entire city. Much ink has been spilled over what this project represents and why it matters, but if I had to summarise it in a single sentence, I would call it the “Shenzhen of Hong Kong”.

At the heart of Hong Kong’s first five-year plan

To me, Shenzhen stands as the most miraculous growth story on Earth. Forty-eight years ago, it was a sleepy fishing village

with a single muddy main road and just tens of thousands of residents. Today, it is the undisputed tech capital

of China and one of the world’s premier innovation hubs.