The HuaWei company is now feared everywhere in the world， but even within， let alone outside of China it is little known that the founder， who leads the company with strictest rule， owes only 1.42% of the (non-tradable) shares. The remaining more than 98% belong
By late afternoon， a boy rides on his two-wheel
exclusively to the now 60，000 employees.
rollerblade (only one wheel in front and back， you They are organised in a holding company. must be able to balance very well， momentum you gain by a sideways movement of the rear half of
There are no other shareholders， or mutual
this vehicle， between the rear and the front half funds， pension funds， VC investors， nor state there is a joint)， lost in thought and completely in balance with himself.
In the Four Lakes Park a little boy is eagerly running after soap bubbles incessantly produced by a 10-year-old boy； the little one is just impressed with the bubbles and wants to follow them， not destroy them.
The girls return from school， they go home for lunch， they already practice how they will later， as adults， also constantly chatter about everything.
institutions or banks. Anyone leaving HuaWei sells back his shares to the holding at the prevailing daily rate.
Of course， ShenZhen is not a city of 90% academics. The booming economy also attracts the less educated， ordinary workers， by far not only migrant workers but also skilled workers or trainees， artisans and minor entrepreneurs running restaurants， car， bicycle and scooter shops， hiring in turn young people who co-operate， cook， serve， sew， supply and dispose. All kinds of shops spring forth， grow if they meet a demand or shut down if not accepted.
Together with employees of public administration， physicians， nurses， kindergarten and school teachers (both male and female) and the surrounding barbers， beauty parlours， massage parlours and whatever else it takes in a big city (and what it does not take， such as charlatans， fortune tellers and hand-line viewers) – all of them are the reason why ShenZhen is now economically the fourth-largest city of China.
On arrival in ShenZhen the young couple， Chu and SunLi， contributes to the average age of ShenZhen’s population dropping below 30 years. As both of them a few
The adolescent girl considers herself most beautiful and documents it – for lack of a suitable partner – herself
years later exceed 30， they conceive a son named HaoKang who， together with millions of other babies and toddlers of young families in ShenZhen， further lowers the average age. Allegedly it is annually decreasing， now to 27. If you happen to walk through the streets and parks， you will take my word for granted.
The young parents， Chu and Sun， together with millions of others， are also the driving force of the construction boom. During their first year of profession they buy an apartment. A few years later， they purchase a second， larger one， but do not inhabit it (nor rent it out). Here or into the first apartment the grandparents are supposed to move in and take care of their future child. The two do not want to see their baby (which they are planning for) raised for many years by his or her grandparents in the home city. They do not think like many other young Chinese parents who want their children to be – as is traditional – not only with the grandparents， but also far away in another city.
Both apartments are almost immediately paid in big portion from the savings of the three families – Chu and Sun and their parents each – the last “rates” each just a few months after purchase. Engineer Chu earns well at HuaWei. But he must also work exceptionally much.
SunLi is also working hard. First she must learn about the complicated manufacturing processes of her first company， monitoring for many hours into the night the test production of new products for the customers. Later， when she becomes the first employee of that German company which intends to use ShenZhen as its base for technically looking after its customers in China， the task gets even more intense. Her mother often says that her foreign boss was certainly quite o. k. but a little exploitative， for he demanded far too much from her， would she not better leave and find a more peaceful job？ But as her husband works at least as much and she sees the progress of the work， and also because she thinks that not her foreign boss was asking this but the customers did， the hard work prevails for the time being， day after day.
One day in XianHu ZhiWuYuan (Botanical Garden)， I spent a few hours in a butterfly garden， covered by a net. I was concentrating on photographing various interesting butterflies using my tele， while I suddenly heard some parents call “别动，蝴蝶在你的头发上！” (“Bié dòng， húdié zài nǐ de tóufa shàng！ Don’t move， there is a butterfly on your hair！”). I immediately turned to that direction， saw the young girl with the butterfly on her hair， and made this photo from distance through my tele lense.