There are four earliest four special economic zones established in China, namely, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Xiamen and Hainan.

Implementation reason

1. Opening to the outside world is the inevitable result of summing up historical experience at home and abroad.

2. Opening to the outside world is the objective requirement of socialization of production and internationalization of economic life.

3. Opening to the outside world is also the inherent requirement of developing socialist market economy.

Opening to the outside world is an inevitable condition to realize socialist modernization.

If any country wants to grow and develop, it must be integrated into the tide of world development, and closing to the outside world can only lead to backwardness.

6. The development of China cannot be separated from the world. Opening to the outside world conforms to the characteristics of the times and the law of world economic and technological development, and is an inevitable choice to speed up China's modernization.

Extended data

The significance of opening to the outside world

The establishment of special economic zones is an important measure of China's opening to the outside world, which has played an important role in absorbing foreign capital, introducing technology, developing production and promoting economic system reform, and has effectively promoted socialist modernization.

The process of opening to the outside world

1In July, 1979, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council decided to implement special policies and flexible measures for the foreign economic activities of Guangdong and Fujian provinces according to their proximity to Hong Kong and Macao, large number of overseas Chinese, abundant resources and convenience in attracting foreign investment, so as to give local governments more autonomy, give full play to their advantages, seize the favorable international situation at that time and take the first step to promote economic development as soon as possible.

1980 in may, the central government decided to set aside some areas in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou and Xiamen to carry out pilot projects of special economic zones. 1983 In April, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council approved the Summary of Discussions on Accelerating the Development and Construction of Hainan Island and decided to implement preferential policies for special economic zones in Hainan Island.

1988 In April, the first meeting of the Seventh National People's Congress formally adopted two decisions to establish Hainan Province and Hainan Special Economic Zone, and Hainan Island became the largest special economic zone in China. The establishment of special economic zones has taken the first step of China's opening to the outside world. Deng Xiaoping's evaluation of special economic zones "is a window, a window of technology, a window of management, a window of knowledge and a window of foreign policy."

Opening to the outside world is a revolutionary act to break the closed state, and we must have the spirit of being the first. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China decided to implement the policy of reform and opening up, all parts of the country took active actions to explore the road suitable for local development.

Under the condition that the national policy allows to try first, the four special zones play the spirit of "pioneering cattle", dare to "eat crabs" for others, and create a number of "China firsts".

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