Deng Xiaoping first proposed the idea of ??building special economic zones: Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, and Xiamen.

The Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in Guangdong Province was officially established in August 1980. It was one of the first four special economic zones in China to open to the outside world.

Shenzhen is located on the southeastern coast of Guangdong Province, stretching from Meisha on the east side of Dapeng Bay to the Shekou Industrial Zone on the west side of Shenzhen Bay, with a total area of ??327.5 square kilometers. It extended to the whole city in 2010 and to the Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone in 2011.

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Shenzhen is adjacent to Hong Kong, has convenient transportation, a mild climate, and beautiful scenery. Shenzhen has unique conditions for utilizing foreign capital to develop its economy.

According to the instructions of the central government, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of Guangdong Province will be built into a comprehensive special zone focusing on industry, commerce, agriculture, housing, tourism and other industries.

On January 6, 2018, the State Council agreed to revoke the management line of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.

In 2019, the regional GDP was 2,692.709 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7% over the previous year.

Among them, the added value of the primary industry was 2.520 billion yuan, an increase of 5.2%; the added value of the secondary industry was 1.049584 billion yuan, an increase of 4.9%; the added value of the tertiary industry was 1.640606 billion yuan, an increase of 8.1%.

The added value of the primary industry accounts for 0.1% of the city's GDP, the added value of the secondary industry accounts for 39.0%, and the added value of the tertiary industry accounts for 60.9%.

The per capita regional GDP was 203,489 yuan, an increase of 3.0%, which was converted to US$29,498 based on the average exchange rate in 2019.

Extended information Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone (Chinese abbreviation: Shenshan (Special) Zone, English abbreviation: SSCZ), the full name of Guangdong Province Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone, is the first special cooperation zone in the country and has prefecture-level city management authority.

It is a prefecture-level city jointly managed by Shenzhen City and Shanwei City.

The Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone is located in southern China, on the east side of the Pearl River Delta, on the edge of the South China Sea.

It has jurisdiction over Ebu Town, Qianmen Town, Xiaomo Town, and Chishi Town (including Yuandun Township and more than 20 large and small islands).

It is connected to Huizhou City; it is adjacent to Haifeng County of Shanwei City in the east. It is only about 30 kilometers away from the center of Shanwei and about an hour and a half from the center of Shenzhen.

Before 2011, the Shenshan Special Cooperation Zone was still a small fishing village.

From 2011 to 2014, the Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone developed slowly due to institutional and administrative factors.

After the institutional division of labor was confirmed in 2014, the Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone has developed rapidly economically and socially. It will not only become the vanguard in revitalizing the east, west, and north of Guangdong, but also become one of the most economically developed and living standards areas in Shanwei City.

Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone is an important financial, service and shipping center in Shanwei City. It is famous for its clean government, good public security, special economic system and special management divisions.

On April 1, 2014, the new Shenshan District Mayor He Xuewen took office, and Shenshan District ushered in a period of rapid development.

Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone enjoys the policy preferences of Shanwei Old District, Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, and Special Cooperation Zone, and enjoys prefecture-level municipal management rights for all matters except judicial affairs.

Shenzhen-Shantou Special Cooperation Zone is the place where the cultures of Shenzhen and Shanwei blend. It is also an important shipping hub and one of the most competitive cities in Shanwei and eastern Guangdong.

It has the reputation of "China's Seafood and Food Capital", "Little Shenzhen", "Window of Shanwei", "Gourmet Paradise", "Gold Coast", and City of the Future.