In the first Joint Venture of Shenzhen, the managers from Shenzhen and Hong Kong began their primal cooperation. Today, the joint venture becomes famous Konka group.

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PRD as an economic region and administrative district

     - the first region in China to open to the rest of the world
        after the 1978 reform, reflecting the region's history and
        its proximity to Hong Kong
        (and to a much lesser extent Macau)
     - site of special economic zones (SZE) (1979) to attract
        foreign capital and to act as a window through which
        China can learn from the outside world. Two of the
        four SZE set up in 1979 were located in PRD.
  
     - Shenzhen: bordering Hong Kong. China's largest SZE until 1988 (when the entire Hainan
        Island was designated as a special economic zone)
     - Zhuhai:  bordering Macau - Guangzhou was one of 14 coastal open cities designated in

        

         Shenzhen                                                        Zhuhai

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