"There are cities and then there are Special Economic Zones. We’ll spare you most of the backstory; suffice it to say that Shenzhen’s exponential growth has meant that it’s very quickly become the sort of place where the great luxury-hotel groups of the world are falling over one another for the opportunity to practice the art of hospitality on one of the world’s most prestigious stages. This, in short, is how you end up with a hotel like the Langham Shenzhen, where a century and a half of English hospitality heritage meets one of the great cities of the twenty-first century." - Tablet Hotels