Shenzhen's 'can-do' drive forges new ground

Once a collection of fishing villages, city is now a leader in education reform and artificial intelligence, as Zhang Zhihao reports.

Like the birth of the universe, China's economic miracle, made possible by 40 years of reform and opening-up envisioned by late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, also began with a big bang.

On July 8, 1979, a huge explosion blew up mountains in Shekou, a small village in southwestern Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The flattened land and scattered earth, used to fill in the sea, were used to create infrastructure for China's first special economic industrial park.