Skyline of Qianhai area in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong Province Photo: VCG A weeklong visit to Shenzhen during the 2025 China Hi-Tech Fair has reshaped my perception of modern China. Far from the one-sided, biased stereotypical narratives prevalent in Western media, this once humble border fishing village has evolved into a cutting-edge futuristic smart city that leads global technological innovation and low-carbon urban development. It boasts a mature green low-carbon urban ecosystem, a complete and resilient industrial supply chain, and human-centric intelligent tech services that integrate into daily life. More than just China's world-famous manufacturing hub and hardware base, Shenzhen serves as a tangible, real-world prototype of future urban life that the Western public has long failed to recognize and understand. What struck me most instantly and profoundly during my trip was Shenzhen's one-of-a-kind green and intelligent urban environment. Standing beside a busy eight-lane arterial road in central Shenzhen during evening rush hour, I witnessed an almost surreal urban scene: continuous streams of buses, private cars and electric scooters glide silently past in an orderly flow. This unique and soothing urban soundtrack stems entirely from Shenzhen's full-scale popularization of electric vehicles across all travel scenarios. This bold green transformation has turned this fast-growing megacity into one of the world's quietest, cleanest and most eco-friendly major cities, vividly embodying the sustainable low-carbon blueprint for the future of global urban development. Widely known as China's "Silicon Valley," Shenzhen hosts global tech giants including Huawei, Tencent, BYD and DJI, and dominates a dominant share of global electronic component manufacturing. China has bid farewell to the single and low-end role of "the world's factory." A host of powerful homegrown tech brands such as Phytium and Loongson displayed self-developed cutting-edge products that fully rival and even outperform mainstream Western counterparts, vividly reflecting China's solid independent