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    A Special 40 Years

    Sep 10, 2020 4 minutes
    By Yuan Yuan

    Shenzhen in the southern province of Guangdong was born with special blood. Unlike many other cities that were naturally formed, it was created from barren land with the mission to spearhead China’s development.

    When the city was established on a backwater county in 1979, there were only 314,000 people. Now it has 13.4 million with people flocking from different parts of the country to this goldmine of reform and opening up.

    One year after the city’s establishment, China’s first special economic zone (SEZ) was set up there, scooping up four of its six districts. Dubbed “the window of reform and opening up,” countless firsts in China took place in this wonderland, including the first land auction,

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