Shenzhen was just a small,remote city in Guangdong Province in 1979 when then-Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping decided to make it the country's first special economic zone as part of China's economic reformation. At the time, Deng couldn't even find Shenzhen on a map. Thirty years later, it is a major international metropolis and "Shenzhen speed" has become a catchphrase for rapid growth and transformation.
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