Deng Xiaoping & Shenzhen

Leading China toward modernization and economic reform since 1978, Deng Xiaoping masterminded reconstruction of an economy stunted by the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. He also achieved a distinguished series of diplomatic coups, culminating with an agreement by the U.K. to return Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997. Under his leadership, China has been experiencing over 20 years of continuous economic booming that astonished the world.
Establishing Special Economy Zones (SEZ) was an important move in Deng Xiaoping's plan for building Chinese unique socialist society. Shenzhen SEZ was personally proposed by Deng Xiaoping and is often called "The Testing Bed of Deng Xiaoping's Reform and Opening Up". Without the guidance of his theory and the government's Opening Up policy, there would not have been Shenzhen's establishment and Development.

In 1984, the Shenzhen Special zone strode into the fifth spring of 1980s, the great man came to see the builders of Shenzhen bringing them kind attention and encouragement. He fully affirmed the achievements made by Shenzhen builder and wrote: "the developments and experiences of Shenzhen have proved that our policy to build special economic zone is quite correct."

As to Shenzhen people who have stepped into the second ten years the beginning of 1992's spring was an unordinary spring. The great man with the advanced age of 88 came again to Shenzhen he set a high value on the success achieved in the special zone in the past ten years. He definitely pointed: the problem that the special zone belongs to socialism or capitalism discussed during the past ten years has been cleared up. People in Shenzhen can now declare proudly: "the way strode by Shenzhen in the past 18 years is a new socialism way with Chinese characteristic".