Setting up special economic zones was a major move by the central authorities to promote reform and opening up and socialist modernization. In August 1980, the State Council formally approved a ...

Over the past four decades, Shenzhen has pulled off a remarkable development miracle on a global scale. Its GDP soared from ...

The special economic zones were the first locations in China to open to the outside world. Their dynamic economic exchanges with the rest of the world make them the best regions of China’s ...

Forty years ago, China created four special economic zones in the southeastern coastal cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou in Guangdong province and Xiamen in Fujian province as part of the country ...

Lu, Fangwen, Weizeng Sun, and Jianfeng Wu. 2023. "Special Economic Zones and Human Capital Investment: 30 Years of Evidence from China." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 15 (3): 35-64 ...

经济特区是20世纪80年代初中国为探索改革开放（reform and opening-up）之路而设置的一些实行特殊政策、进行特别管理的区域，被誉为中国改革的“试验田”和对外开放的“窗口”。经济特区的设置标志着中国改革开放进一步发深入。截至目前，中国大陆地区共有7 ...

Forty years ago, China created four special economic zones in the southeastern coastal cities of Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shantou in Guangdong province and Xiamen in Fujian province as part of the country ...