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04.03.17China Plan to Create New Shenzhen Spurs Speculative Rampage
Bloomberg
Within 24 hours of Saturday’s announcement that the government would create the Xiongan area in Hebei province—in the same spirit that Shenzhen and Shanghai’s Pudong was built—hordes of prospective buyers had thronged to the region.
The China Africa Project
08.20.15
China’s Special Economic Zones in Africa: Lots of Hype, Little Hope
A decade ago, China announced it would develop of a series of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in Africa to boost trade and industrialization. Given the phenomenal success of China’s SEZs that helped to spark the PRC’s three decades of history-making...
Reports
03.01.11
How Do Special Economic Zones and Industrial Clusters Drive China’s Rapid Development?
World Bank
In the past thirty years, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth, an unprecedented development “miracle” in human history. How did China achieve this rapid growth? What have been its key drivers? And, most important, what can be learned from...
Sinica Podcast
09.10.10
Showdown in Shenzhen
from Sinica Podcast
On September 6, Shenzhen celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of its founding as a special economic zone (SEZ). And while the city feted itself at the highest levels of power, its celebrations were marred by an unexpected development: in a speech...