Shanwei has a good geographical environment, could have relied on the geographical environment in Guangdong will be able to achieve good development, but because of the brain drain, the market economic order integrity of the lack of as well as the completion of the Shanwei transportation factors Shanwei become economically backward city.

Firstly, Shanwei's geography in Guangdong is still quite good, with a coastline and rich tourism resources. It should not be poor, but many factors have led Shanwei to become an economically backward city in Guangdong.

Secondly, there is a very strange sight in Shanwei, that is, the brain drain is particularly serious. Once a place has a serious brain drain, it will bring poverty to that place. Shanwei's development is not good, and the brain drain has a lot to do with the people of Shanwei, the people of Shanwei hard work to raise most of the talent to go to other cities to start their own business only part of the civil servants to stay at home.

Thirdly, Shanwei originally had very good resources, but many investors, including the local Shanwei outside their own successful entrepreneurs are afraid to return to Shanwei business. In Shanwei security and market economic order integrity of the lack of foreigners to discourage, in the early Shanwei people smuggling incidents, as well as government units in the gray area of the transaction, etc. are seriously affect the development of Shanwei.

Fourth, Shanwei lagged behind in the development of Guangdong cities and transportation construction is also related. Shantou and the mainland and the Pearl River Delta region of the transportation is not smooth, so that the Shanwei region has the coast, but they do not have a dock. In some areas of Shanwei even the high-speed rail is not, originally in our country has been advocated to want to be rich first to build roads. Inconvenient transportation will certainly lead to Shanwei's economic development backward.

Fifth, Shanwei urban area is too small, compared to other cities is also small. The core position compared to Shenzhen Huizhou and so on is also not prominent, weak capacity. In the development of the economy's leading market does not have any important role, there is also a fairly important reason, is that Shanwei missed the best period of development. Since the reform and opening up of Guangdong, the important economic radiation capacity did not affect Shanwei area. This is also the reason why Shanwei lags behind among Guangdong cities.