Citations:Shenzhen

English citations of Shenzhen

• Encyclopædia Britannica

  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.