First launched by Charles De Gaulle in 1962, ‘MS Ancerville’ anchors for good in Shenzhen’s ‘Shekou’ district, after a thousand day renovation. A sleepy old fishing village is now poster-child for globally-minded contemporary China, after becoming the experimenting place for public policy (granted flexibility and free-trade). Local culture and creativity merge with the East and West, concretizing Shekou as a feat of progress and reinvention.