Shenzhen Special Economic Zone is located in the south of Shenzhen, starting from Dapeng Bay in the east, reaching the Pearl River Estuary in the west, with Wutong Mountain and Yangtai Mountain Veins in the north, Hong Kong in the south and Shenzhen River as the boundary. It is 49 kilometers long from east to west and 7 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of 327.5 square kilometers and an actual exploitable area of 111 square kilometers. With a total length of 86 kilometers of special zone management line.

the special zone covers Luohu district, Futian district, Nanshan district and Yantian district.

In August, 1981, Guangdong Special Economic Zone Management Committee used a bank loan of 31 million yuan and some local finances to build financial, commercial and tourist residential facilities in an area of 1.8 square kilometers in Luohu District with reference to the "Shekou Model", and used the profits earned to continue the infrastructure construction of the industrial park. This "snowballing" development with bank loans provides experience for the initial construction of Zhuhai and Shantou. According to the Regulations of Guangdong Special Economic Zone, Shenzhen has formulated a series of preferential policies to attract foreign investment, including business autonomy, taxation, land use, foreign exchange management, product sales, entry and exit management, etc. Through processing with supplied materials, compensation trade, joint venture, cooperative operation, sole proprietorship and leasing, it has attracted a lot of foreign investment and accelerated the rapid development of special economic zones. From the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in 1979 to 2112, the actual utilization of foreign capital was 31.518 billion US dollars.

Among them, from 1979 to 1989, Shenzhen signed more than 6,891 agreements with merchants from more than 31 countries and regions in the world, and actually utilized foreign capital of 2.7 billion US dollars. In the 21 years to 1999, * * * merchants from 61 countries and regions came to invest in Shenzhen, with a total of 23,611 investment projects, with contracted foreign capital of 29.839 billion US dollars and actually utilized foreign capital of 21.145 billion US dollars. In 2119, the GDP was 447.915 billion yuan.

Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription for Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. In 1992, the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) granted the legislative power to Shenzhen Special Economic Zone. The legislative law, which came into effect in 2111, continues to retain the legislative power of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and at the same time grants the city where the special economic zone is located a larger legislative power. With the rapid development of Shenzhen's economy, the inconsistency of local laws and regulations inside and outside the special zone has caused the status quo of "one city, two laws" and brought many obstacles to the development of the whole city.