Economic Zones

This book collects the latest academic achievements, research progress and policy propositions on the study of China’s special economic zones, with the aim to reflect the history, new development and new challenges of the construction of Chinese special economic zones. It presents the successful experience of the development of Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area and the changes of its mission and analyzes the problems encountered in the development of Shenzhen special economic zones and the theory of economic system reform.

This annual report presents an overview of the development of China’s special economic zones in 2021, including reform pilot zones and some new special zones, from the perspective of the overall national development strategic planning. It takes the development status, comparative analysis and policy suggestions of the special zones as the starting point, summarizes and analyzes the transformation problems, carbon production and sustainable development problems, scientific and technological innovation problems, social security problems, employment service problems, financial system reform problems, cultural industry problems, and puts forward suggestions for development.

This Report objectively reflects the whole year’s progress of politics, economy, society, culture, system, environment, innovation and reform as well as the problems, challenges and countermeasures in traditional special economic zones and new special economic zones. It makes analysis of China’s Special Economic Zones, including overall review on the whole year’s development state of the reform experimental zone and part of new special economic zones, which focuses on analyzing the transformation of special economic zones, use of resources, the sustainable development, economic and social development, social security and technical innovation from the aspects of present situation of development, the comparative analysis, and policy suggestions and puts forward development suggestions for each specific issue.

The Annual Report objectively reflects the year's developments in terms of politics, the economy, society, culture, the environment, innovation and reform, and describes the problems, challenges and countermeasures in both traditional and new special economic zones.