Editor´s note:
A gateway to the world for China, Shenzhen now is one of the most developed cities in China and a city that has grown the fastest. Its per capita GDP ranks first among China´s major cities.
But 30 years ago, Shenzhen was nothing but several fishing villages. It is the earliest experiments to build coastal "special economic zones" (SEZs), planned by Deng Xiaoping, architect of the Chinese reform and opening-up, that connect Shenzhen, and eventually the whole China with the global world.