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The establishment of special economic zones is a crucial strategic choice for China’s development, and developing special economic zones first in order to stimulate the economic take-off of the whole country is China’s way towards modernization, which is exerting a profound and far-reaching impact all around the world. In practice, China’s special economic zones have dynamically evolved in terms of time dimension, in 35 years, by shifting a focus from institutional experiment to regional development to developmental issues, and changing the desired function from “overall” to “strategically regional” to “specifically local”, with its essential connotation characterized by institutional experiment—comprehensive practice—path exploration; however, in general, the historical procedure of China’s special economic zones centers on a target system, a developmental path and an institutional change mode for finding answers.
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Gu Mu said, “The establishment of special economic zones is a great event advocated by Comrade Deng Xiaoping, decided by the Central Committee, legalized by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress and carried out by the State Council”, see Ref. [1].
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Yiming, Y. (2017). The Dynamic Evolution of China’s Special Economic Zones and Their Practice. In: Yuan, Y. (eds) Studies on China's Special Economic Zones. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3704-7_2
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