1February, 990, Deng Xiaoping told several central leading comrades about the development and opening up of Pudong in Shanghai, saying that you should pay more attention to the development of Pudong in Shanghai.

In March, when talking with several leading comrades of the Central Committee, Deng Xiaoping said, "We should seize the opportunity, make timely decisions, and study where the conditions are better, so as to open up more sources of goods. For example, seizing Shanghai is a great measure. Shanghai is our trump card and a shortcut to build Shanghai. " Deng Xiaoping's opinion has attracted great attention of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council.

1April, 1990, the development and opening up of Pudong started. Deng Xiaoping's southern talk and a series of important expositions on Pudong's development and opening-up laid a solid ideological foundation for Pudong's development and opening-up.

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Looking back on Comrade Deng Xiaoping's strategic thinking behind Pudong's development and opening up, we can roughly sort out the following context:

1, deep economic reasons.

At that time, Shenzhen and other special economic zones boldly reformed and explored the socialist market economic system, which had a lasting and far-reaching impact on the framework of establishing a socialist market economic system throughout the country.

At the same time, however, "in the process of transition from planned economy to market economy, the economic development has experienced ups and downs because of the incomplete system transition and the priority of macro-control efficiency." By 1988, problems such as overheated economic operation, accelerated inflation, and widening fiscal deficit have emerged.

2. Political fuse.

In the late 1980s, some western countries not only slandered China for "stopping market economy reform and opening up" and "suppressing human rights", but also imposed economic sanctions on China, such as trade protection, investment restrictions, high-tech blockade and financial control.

1The announcement of Pudong's development and opening-up in April, 1990 was a powerful practical action to break the international economic blockade and political attack on China, and showed the directional choice of Socialism with Chinese characteristics's banner, theory and road.

3. Promote international economic division of labor.

In the early 1990s, China faced important opportunities: the new scientific and technological revolution brought about economic globalization, the worldwide industrial structure was greatly adjusted, and a global buyer's market with oversupply was formed. Developed countries are looking for new investment directions, and multinational companies are looking to China. China has successfully implemented the reform and opening-up policy, its economic strength has been rapidly enhanced, its investment environment has been improved, and its market potential is huge.

But at the same time, neighboring countries and regions have also accelerated the pace of opening up and attracting foreign investment, which means that there is fierce competition in absorbing international hot money and industrial transfer. Through the development of Pudong, opening wider to the outside world, deepening reform and creating a more relaxed and favorable investment environment for foreign investors are powerful measures to cope with the competition in surrounding areas and further accelerate the economic development of China.

People's Network-Deng Xiaoping and Shanghai's reform and opening up

People's Daily-People's Daily: Strategic Thinking on Deng Xiaoping's Development and Opening-up of Pudong.