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Just Ask Global Journalists Who Come to See It ##### Up next ![Youku's 'The Early Spring' Reaches No. 2 on Netflix's Global Non-English TV List](https://i0.wp.com/mmx.prnasia.com/media/MS1981736/20260903234012EDT_image_1.jpg?resize=200%2C110&ssl=1 "Youku's 'The Early Spring' Reaches No. 2 on Netflix's Global Non-English TV List") [](https://thailandbusinessnews.net/press-release/youkus-the-early-spring-reaches-no-2-on-netflixs-global-non-english-tv-list/) ###### [Youku's 'The Early Spring' Reaches No. 2 on Netflix's Global Non-English TV List](https://thailandbusinessnews.net/press-release/youkus-the-early-spring-reaches-no-2-on-netflixs-global-non-english-tv-list/) Published on 04 September 2026 ##### Author ##### [ CISION PRNewswire ](https://thailandbusinessnews.net/author/cision/) ##### Tags - [PRNewswire](https://thailandbusinessnews.net/tag/prnewswire/) SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — "Shenzhen may well be the world’s No. 1 innovation hub. And together, Shenzhen and Hong Kong form the perfect endpoint of the modern Silk Road." That was the glowing verdict American economist Jeffrey Sachs delivered in Shenzhen just over a month ago, effectively giving the city one of the highest-profile stamps of approval in the world of development economics. Sachs is hardly an ordinary commentator. One of the world’s most influential authorities on sustainable development, and for years a special adviser to the UN secretary-general, he knows a thing or two about how cities and economies grow. Video produced by Shenzhen Media Group In a recent exclusive interview with *Zhi News* (from Shenzhen Media Group), Sachs shared his in-depth views. The following is the full report: when representatives from APEC economies come to Shenzhen, they are bound to be impressed. They will discover that the city is not merely a great place to find capital and business partners, but also a window into entirely new models of development—and perhaps a glimpse of what the future could look like. After decades of trailblazing development, Shenzhen has more than earned that kind of academic attention. It is, after all, a city built on miracles and a straight-A student in the school of urban development. The more you admire Shenzhen, the more you begin to understand *why* it deserves admiration. That, to me, is precisely where the real significance of Shenzhen’s development lies: not simply in what the city has achieved, but in what its experience tells us about where the world may be heading. As a journalist, I would put it this way: Shenzhen is a mother lode for anyone trying to understand China. For global academia, and perhaps even more so for the world’s media, it is a gold mine of stories, ideas and opportunities. Over the past year or two, a curious phenomenon has swept across Western social media and, increasingly, Western society itself: **China-maxxing**, sometimes jokingly described as "becoming Chinese." "You met me at a very Chinese time in my life." Yes, that viral internet phrase borrows its punchline from the Hollywood classic *Fight Club*. Earlier this year, *The New York Times* offered a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek description of the trend in one of its features: If you drink hot water, wear slippers indoors or shop at Asian supermarkets, you may be Chinese, according to the internet. But here is what caught my attention. When it comes to Shenzhen—and China more broadly—Western mainstream media can sometimes be surprisingly slow on the uptake. Take China-maxxing. It only became a mainstream media story, splashed across newspapers and television screens, earlier this year—more than six months after a Twitter user, @Girl\_virus, first posted about "becoming Chinese." To put it bluntly, China-maxxing was not exactly handed down to the mainstream media from above. **The world’s netizens pushed it up there.** *The New York Times* even framed the provocative question this way in a headline: **From Labubu to "becoming Chinese," has China become cool?** Well, if the Times’ reporter comes to Shenzhen, I’ll make a pretty safe bet: he or she will come away thinking, **Shenzhen is super cool.** So here’s my advice to my fellow journalists around the world: follow the lead of those pioneering scholars. Get closer to Shenzhen. Walk into Shenzhen. Stay a little longer. Look a little deeper. And then go farther afield. There are simply too many fascinating stories here waiting to be told—and too many forces behind those stories waiting to be decoded. And here’s the best part. More than two decades ago, Shenzhen residents already had the confidence to put it into one unforgettable slogan: **"Once you come, you’re a Shenzhener."** I suspect foreign correspondents arriving in Shenzhen today may discover their own version of that old Shenzhen experience: **Come for the story. Stay for the experience. Leave having become, at least a little bit, a Shenzhener.** And trust me, it’s going to be quite an experience. [Source link ](http://www.prnasia.com/story/archive/5040871_AE40871_0?rand=89749) ``` This content was prepared by our news partner, Cision PR Newswire. 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