Thirty Years of Turbulence - Chinese Enterprises

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Like Lu Guanqiu, who tried to open the door to the "plan", more and more local factories in Wenzhou in southern Zhejiang, Chaoshan in Guangdong, and the the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong showed their extraordinary vitality. A journalist from Newsweek in the United States went to Shishi, Fujian and Nanhai, Guangdong for an interview. In the report he sent back, he said, "Shishi's small commodity trade and Nanhai's folk small hardware, small chemicals, small plastics, small textiles, small smelting, and small processing are growing like wild grass all over the world

Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province is located in a remote area, with no trains for many years, extremely inconvenient transportation, and scarce arable land, with an average of only a little over two cents per person. Therefore, the farmers here have had the impulse to leave their land and go out to survive for a hundred years. After 1979, there was a sudden smuggling frenzy in the Yueqing and Cangnan areas here. One after another, smuggling fishing boats brought in clothing, small appliances, hardware, and other items from overseas, forming a smuggling trading market in some remote small docks. The local government ignored the law and had to turn a blind eye.