Born in 1980, Raised in Shenzhen

"Born in 1980, Raised in Shenzhen" is the youth history of a city and the growth history of a generation. In 1985, Chen Xiaodong was born in a work shed in Zhuzilin, Shenzhen. My father is an infrastructure engineering soldier from Hunan, and my mother is a Sichuan female worker who works in Baaling Electronics Factory. He grew up on this reclaimed land, witnessed the speed of "one floor per floor in three days" of the Guomao Building, experienced his father's ecstasy and disappointment during the 1992 stock market frenzy, spent his childhood under the Diwang Building, and spent his adolescence amidst the wave of copycat machines in Huaqiangbei. He left before - in 2003, with the prejudice that "Shenzhen has no culture", he insisted on going to Guangzhou to study at university. He also came back - in 2008, when his father was seriously ill, he struggled to find a job during the financial crisis, and finally rented a workspace in the Huaqiangbei SEG Building and started a business. In the past forty years, Chen Xiaodong and his family have experienced every pain and transformation in this city: the wave of layoffs, the demolition of urban villages, and soaring housing prices. We have also witnessed every new life: the opening of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong high-speed rail, Qianhai's transformation from a tidal flat to a financial center, and Shenzhen's transformation from the "World Factory" to "China's Silicon Valley". When his son asked him, "Was Shenzhen really a small fishing village before?", He realized that he had become a part of the city's history. This is a story about "breaking in". My father's breakthrough was the train ticket from Hunan in 1979. Chen Xiaodong's breakthrough was the first line of code in the rental house in Huaqiangbei. The city has been disrupted by the sound of bulldozers, tower cranes and piling that has not stopped for forty years. The growth of a person, the changes of a family, and the progress of a city.