Edwar Javier Figueroa Arce, 30, from Colombia, is a professional dancer and organizer of Latin parties. He has been living in China for four years, including more than one year in Shenzhen. Every Wednesday, at Revolucion Cocktail bar in Futian District, he takes charge of livening up the night with his incredible dance moves and his knack for organizing Latin parties.

Óscar Herrera, originally from Bogotá, Colombia, is the chef and manager of La Lupita restaurants in three cities — Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Xiamen.

Ron Price, a teacher with Shenzhen American International School in Nanshan District’s Shekou area, took his students to Pinghu Foreign Language School to learn tea ceremony and experience making Zisha (purple clay) teapots.

More than 20 expat volunteers took part in the “Love without Borders” activity in Guanlan Subdistrict, Longhua District, on Saturday to send warmth and care to children with special needs in the district.

SRĐAN GAŠIĆ, a soccer coach for Eintracht Frankfurt (Shenzhen) Football Academy and Shenzhen Nanshan Foreign Language School (Group), gave a concluding speech to a soccer match, encouraging young players to enjoy the match rather than focus on the result, at the Shenzhen Bay Center yesterday as reporters waited to interview him.

Swiss sound researcher and artist Marcel Zaes Sagesser teaches sound design at the School of Design at Southern University of Science and Technology. According to him, what makes the sounds in Shenzhen charming and special to him is that there are always urban sounds mixed with some natural sounds, and that the city "with a subtropical climate and a geographic location between the ocean and the hills, between the ocean and the continent" has influenced him in many ways.

Trotting to different places to attend business meetings across China has become a lifestyle for Israeli Segev Halfon. The entrepreneur has been dedicated himself to bringing more cutting-edge treatments to China and improving the living quality of people for the last five years. As the co-founder and CEO of SinoSciences Global, a medical devices enterprise, he thinks Shenzhen is a vital player in China's economy.

Renaat Beheydt, who graduated from the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Belgium, teaches the piano at Xinghai Conservatory of Music in Guangzhou. He first arrived in Shenzhen in 2009 with his Chinese wife and now thinks himself a local of Shekou. He compares Shenzhen to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring."

Terry Given of New Zealand, an electronics specialist who has been living in Shenzhen since 2013, finds Huaqiangbei as fascinating as it was when he first visited it in 2003. He calls the place his “candy land,” where he’d dreamed of having grown up.