The western artificial island of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link — a monumental cross-sea project in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area — began a month-long trial operation as a tourism destination on Saturday.

Yantian District, not far from downtown Shenzhen and now easily accessible by Metro, never fails to impress with its lush scenery and sweeping sea views.

OCT-LOFT, a vibrant cultural park that blends raw industrial architecture with creative design, contemporary art and avant-garde music, has recently turned two buildings near its south entrance into a lively block called LOFT53.

The Bao’an Exhibition High Line Park is Shenzhen’s latest experiment in urban imagination. The 1.7-kilometer-long, 25-meter-wide elevated greenway that reads part skypark, part people-mover, follows the same logic but elevates it.