The venue of 2017-2018 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (Shenzhen) themed on “ Cities, Grow in Difference” is held at Nantou Old Town which also named “ nine street” with neighbourhood more than 15000 people live on 0.07 sq Km.  The vendors inside the village are from Hunan, Sichuan and Guangdong. 

Meng Yan, the curator of this year wrote in an article “ Nantou is a mini version of entire Shenzhen urban development, what Nantou needs are the improvement in the quality of life and cultural renaissance instead of spatial reform.”