Shenzhen is famous for being the Silicon Valley of Hardware. A manufacturing powerhouse with a population of more than 15 millions.In theory, you wouldn’t expect much from the outdoors of a highly industrialized region. Yet, wherever you are in the city, you will never be more than an hour away from mountains. I’ve put together a guide of my favorite trail in Shenzhen! 1 - WuTong Mountain (梧桐山) An hour out of city center by bus, you will find the village of WuTongShan or 梧桐村.

One of the pain point when learning Mandarin is that most of the Anglicism we use in western languages are simply not used. For example in IT, 接口 refer to an API and 框架 to a framework. This was confusing for me at the beginning and I could hardly follow technical meetings. Over the years, I put up a list of words and sentences collected from situations encountered at work. They are usually the quickest way of expressing something and are safe to use in a professional context.