Table Of ContentResearch Series on the Chinese Dream
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Yiming Yuan Editor
Studies on China’s
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Contents
1 New Mission for China’s Special Economic Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Yitao Tao
2 Internal Causes for Shenzhen’s Industrial Development
and Structural Evolution: An Explanation from the Perspective
of Institutional Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Yiming Yuan
3 The Evolution of the Special Economic Zones: International
Experience and Lessons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Aradhna Aggarwal
4 Successful Experience in the Development of China’s Special
Economic Zones—Case Study of the Reform of and Innovation
in the Shenzhen Financial Industry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Susheng Wang
5 OntheChinaPilotFreeTradeZoneandtheInstitutionalReform
of the Comprehensively Open Economy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Xiaowen Fan
6 The Status and Roles of Special Economic Zones in China’s
Unbalanced Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Baofeng He
7 The Economic Growth and Industrial Transformation
of the Special Economic Zones in the Historical Context . . . . . . . . 105
Chao Ji
8 The Development of the Qianhai Cooperation Zone
from the Perspective of Institutional Innovation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Yong Wei
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9 Development of and Inspiration for North Korea’s Special
Economic Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Haiping Luo
10 The Innovation-Based Path to Cultural Industrial
Upgrading—Take Shenzhen as an Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Yaqin Zhong
11 Comparison and Reference Concerning the Participation
of the Special Economic Zones in the Belt and Road
Construction Under the New Normal of the Economy . . . . . . . . . . 163
China Center for Special Economic Zone Research
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Key Research Base for Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education,
P.R.C
China Center for Special Economic Zone Research, Shenzhen University
Editor-in-chief: Yiming Yuan
Assistant Editor-in-Chief: Yikun Zhou
Academic Committee
Chairman: Wu Zhong, Publicity Department of Shenzhen Municipal Committee
of the CPC
Vice Chairman: Tao Yitao, Shenzhen University
Members (in the order of the strokes of their Chinese surnames)
Kong Ying, Tsinghua University
Wang Susheng, Harbin Institute of Technology
Wang Jun, Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences
Sun Yuanxin, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Tian Qiusheng, Sun Yat-Sen University
Wu Zhong, Finance Center for South-South Cooperation
Wu Chaolin, South China Normal University
Chen Yong, Shenzhen University
He Jingtong, Nankai University
Tao Yitao, Shenzhen University
Yuan Yiming, Shenzhen University
Tan Gang, Shenzhen Institute of Administration
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Chapter 1
New Mission for China’s Special
Economic Zones
YitaoTao
Abstract Ahighlyefficientandmoderngovernmentisnotagovernmentthatsimply
collects the information of target groups and then takes the trouble of providing
services,butagovernmentthatauthorizesmorepowertothesocietyandpublic.A
governmenthavingamoderngovernancecapacityshouldbeagovernmenthavinga
predictablecapacity,butnotagovernmentonlyconductingtreatmentforremedies.
Inasense,themostimportantfunctionof agovernment isnottoprovide services
buttosolveproblems.Thegoalofhappinessisjustone,thatis,tomakelifebetter.
Thisisthepurposeofreformsandthesignificanceofpursingscientificspiritsand
humanity,andalsothesignificanceofrealizingamodern,internationalandcreative
city.
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Keywords Missionforthespecialeconomiczones Fourcomprehensives
Vanguard
Atthebeginningof2015,GeneralSecretaryXiJinpingmadeimportantinstructions
to Shenzhen by requiring it to bear in mind a mission, be bold in taking on heavy
responsibilities, further think hard and emancipate the mind, especially encourage
the cadres and masses to carry out brave experiments and innovations, make new
achievementsinbuildingawell-offsocietyinanall-aroundway,comprehensively
intensifyingthereform,putinplacetheruleoflawandstrengthenPartydiscipline
inacomprehensiveway,strivetoconstantlyfosternewadvantagesandreachanew
heightintheconstructionofthespecialeconomiczone.Inparticular,astheforerunner
inreform,Shenzhenshouldcontinuetoplayanexemplaryroleandshouldundertake
thenewmission,bestowedonitbythenewera,ofbecomingthefirsttoimplementthe
Four-ProngedComprehensiveStrategy—makecomprehensivemovesinbuildinga
well-offsociety,intensifyingthereform,advancingtheruleoflawandstrengthening
Partyself-discipline.
TheSixthPartyCongressofShenzhenthatjustendedvowedtoaccomplishthe
missioninresponsetothegreatexpectationsofGeneralSecretaryXiJinping.The
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Party Congress outlined the thrilling development goals for Shenzhen in the next
five years: emancipate the mind, take practical actions, serve as the forerunner to
implementtheFour-ProngedComprehensiveStrategy,buildamoderninternational
innovative city, turn Shenzhen into a special economic zone that is more able to
play a leading role in reform and opening up, a national independent innovation
demonstrationareaatahigherlevel,anationaleconomiccentralcitywithagreater
impactandagreaterdrivingeffect,amorecompetitiveandinfluentialinternational
cityandacitywithahigherqualityofthepeople’slivelihoodandhappiness.
1.1 InOrdertoBetheForerunnerinImplementing
theFour-ProngedComprehensiveStrategy,Shenzhen
ShouldContinuetoRetaintheCourageandMettle
ofaFirstMover,theSenseofaForerunner’s
ResponsibilityandtheSenseofMission
oftheFirst-EverImplementationofPilotPrograms
toBetterAccomplishtheNewMissionBestowed
ontheSpecialEconomicZonebytheNewEra
The establishment of China’s special economic zones is a hallmark of the China
Path. It means that the Soviet Model and planned economy were unfeasible; the
egalitarianismofsmallfarmersandbalanceddevelopmentwereimpracticable;large-
scale reform and the original system were unworkable. Thus, a breakthrough was
made by establishing the special economic zones, and making top-down, imposed
gradual institutional change outside the rigid system so that China could embark
onauniquepathtodevelopment,inadrivetowardsmodernization,differentfrom
the Soviet Model in the traditional system and the Western Model in the age of
capitalism—theChinaPath.
GiventhelogicalstartingpointofChina’sreformandopeningupandtheChina
Path,thespecialeconomiczonescannotbepraisedtoomuch.ThisisbecauseChina’s
reformandopeningupisimpossiblewithoutthespecialeconomiczones;themarket
economycannotbeestablishedandtakeshapewithoutthespecialeconomiczones;
thinking cannot be renewed and revolution cannot be carried out in the Chinese
society without the special economic zones; the creative power of every citizen
cannotbedisplayedintheChinesesocietywithoutthespecialeconomiczones;the
earthshakingChinaMiraclecannotbecreatedwithoutthespecialeconomiczones;
the internal driving force for transforming the pattern of economic development
cannotexistwithoutthespecialeconomiczones;therealisticbasisfortheScientific
Outlook on Development, the social material and spiritual foundation for putting
forwardtheChineseDreamcannotbeavailablewithoutthespecialeconomiczones;
theChinaPathformakinghundredsofmillionsofChinesepeoplegetrichcannottake
shapewithoutthespecialeconomiczones.Theestablishmentofthespecialeconomic
