Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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This peninsula is the future Shekou Industrial Zone. The so-called 'Shekou', as the name suggests, is an extension of the peninsula. Yuan Geng recalled, "Before the establishment of the industrial zone, this was a gateway for illegal immigration to Hong Kong by sea, and there were often floating corpses of escaped personnel who drowned on the beach. Most of these wild corpses were young laborers from rural areas." The emergence of the Shekou Industrial Zone took only three months from imagination to action, and the simplicity and speed of this decision-making process were rare in the bureaucratic system at that time. Yuan Geng, as a deputy bureau level middle-level cadre, directly promoted the establishment of China's first development zone, which can be considered a wonderful opportunity.

The Shekou Industrial Zone covers an area of only 2.14 square kilometers, but Yuan Geng has created a grand avenue within this snail shell. Once the industrial zone was approved, his first project was to relocate mountains and reclaim land to build a dock. China Merchants Group spent nearly a year building a 600 meter dock berth that can accommodate cargo ships under 5000 tons. In this way, Shekou immediately had the function of port transportation, and the industrial zone and Hong Kong were connected by passenger ships, solving the bottleneck of freight transportation.