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- In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.
2006 November 8, Guang Cai, “Shenzhen to boost logistics, finance sectors”, in China Daily[1], archived from the original on 30 March 2020, BIZCHINA, page 1[2]:The Shenzhen municipal government will give top priority to developing its modern logistics and finance sectors and building the industries into the city's pillar sectors in the following years.
2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China[3], New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:Over the next two years, China set up four “special economic zones” as testing grounds for free-enterprise practices like foreign investment and tax incentives. The largest zone was Shenzhen, about fifty miles south of Dongguan, which quickly became a symbol of a freewheeling China always open for business. Shenzhen was a planned showcase city, willed into being by leaders in Beijing and supported by government ministries and the companies under them.
2009, Lanqing Li, “The Birth of Special Economic Zones”, in Ling Yuan, Zhang Siying, transl., Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-Up Policy[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:The tiny 0.8-square-kilometer Luohu District was where the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone really got off to a good start.
