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Aim

PALIYALA

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CONFIDENTIAL

Development of Shenzhen (Shumchun)

The aim of this paper is to summarise the

development in Shenzhen over the past year by

examining changes in its organisation and administra-

tion, its planned new tourist industry, its roads,

railway and port construction plans, its planned

increased power supply, and its industrial and

agricultural development.

Organisation and Administration

2.

According to traveller reports in September

1978 a Central document was issued in July, which

announced that Shenzhen was to be developed into a

'medium-sized city'. By November travellers were

reporting that Shenzhen was to become a municipality

and that it was to be directly subordinate to Guangdong

Province, once Central approval, sought in October, had

been given. Reports since then have referred to

Shenzhen variously as Shenzhen Municipality or Baoan

Municipality. The Wen Wei Pao of 22 February 1979,

which ran a feature article on Shenzhen, referred to it

as Shenzhen Municipality.

3.

The size of boundaries of the new municipality

are as yet unclear and no official announcements on the

formation of the municipality have been made.

Initial

reports suggested that the new municipality would

include either only the eastern part of the former

Fucheng Commune or that plus the Caiwawei (c. Tsoi Uk

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