Welcome to Shenzhen, where the pains of a city's economic transformation efforts are becoming increasingly evident, according to industry insiders and analysts.
The city got some bad news last week in the form of a scorecard for the first two months of the year that showed rare falls in exports and the profits and sales of industrial enterprises.
While exports plunged 6 per cent from the same period last year, imports grew by just 0.3 per cent. And profits of major industrial enterprises took a 3 per cent dive.
Worries about poorly performing sectors have spread throughout the city, especially among exporters and manufacturers.
But there is a bright side, and it is coming in the hi-tech and new-energy industries, which say they are developing well.
However, official figures appear to indicate that Shenzhen's economic transformation is still far from providing stability to the manufacturing sector, let alone spurring another boom in the city.