Three years ago, Vergara came all the way to Shenzhen from Chile and settled here, working as a manager for a Chilean company.

Lured by Shenzhen’s incredible biodiversity, Italian ecosystem scientist and engineer Matteo Convertino came and settled in the city some three months ago.

Wearing a volunteer’s red jacket and holding a nucleic acid testing flowchart in his hands, Duiu Onofrei stood out among the crowd at a nucleic acid sampling site in Zhaoshang Subdistrict, Nanshan District on Jan. 12.

Wearing an Iron Man T-shirt, Heráclito Everson Biscaia Filho from Brazil made his 34th blood donation in Shenzhen at Nanshan Blood Donation Station in Nanshan District on Dec. 28.

Kyrgyzstan ballet dancer Keneshbek Abdiev’s dream took off in Nanshan: starting a business to teach authentic Russian Classical Ballet and planting seeds for the art of ballet in Shenzhen.