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Current Hong Kong China Economic Developments: Monthly Notes:
August 1981
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Visit to Shenzhen by the Chinese Prime Minister
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Between 15 and 18 August the left-wing Hong Kong newspaper "Wen Wei Po" gave exclusive coverage (with photographs) of a visit by the Chinese Prime Minister, Zhao Ziyang, to the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Shenzhen.
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Zhao arrived in Guangzhou from Singapore on the evening of 13 August and the next morning took the train south for a two-day inspection tour of Shenzhen. He travelled the length of the SEZ from Shatoujiao (Sha Tau Kok) in the cast, to Shekou Special Industrial Zone (a "zone within e zone") on Deep Bay. Apart from visits to two holiday resorts at the Xili Reservoir and at Xiaomeisha, he also went to the border crossing points at Wenjindu (Man Kam To) and Iuohu (Lo Wu). He left Shekou by sea on the morning of 16 August for a similar inspection tour of Zhuhai SEZ (north of Macau). He was accompanied throughout by Provincial Party First Secretary Ren Zhongyi, Governor Liu Tianfu, Vice- Governor Wang Quanguo and the Head of the Provincial Commission of Special Economic Zones, Wu Nansheng, Wang Kuang, First Director of the Hong Kong Branch of NCNA also joined the Premier's party.
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The visit comes at a time of apparently heightened interest by the central leadership in the SEZ experiment. A high-level conference was held in Peking at the end of June which discussed current policies towards the zones. This meeting considered a number of policy initiatives aimed at accelerating the pace of development according to the dictum ascribed to Deng Xiaoping that the SEZS "should be really special." It also considered a list of new regulations affecting the SEZs.
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