The Advantages of Innovation and the Innovative Development of the Special Economic Zones of Guangdong in the New Era

Abstract

In the past 40 years of China’s reform and opening-up, with the strong support from the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, the special economic zones of Guangdong carried out the reform with determination, dared to confront the toughest issues, and through continuous innovation and bold exploration, made great contributions to the reform and opening-up of the country and the socialist construction. In 2018, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade ** as the core put forward new requirements for Guangdong and required Guangdong to be “at the forefront of the country in building the institutional mechanisms to promote high-quality economic development, develo** a modernized economic system, forming a new pattern of all-around opening-up and creating a model of social governance based on collaboration, participation and common interests”. The requirements of “taking four forefronts in the country” are not only the new expectations of General Secretary ** for Guangdong, but also the goals of the special economic zones of Guangdong in the new era. These special economic zones should never forget why they started, they should remember their missions, take innovation as the foremost driving force, plan for and advance the construction of special economic zones in the new era and at new starting points and become the pacemakers for realizing the aforesaid requirements in Guangdong Province.

This paper is one of the results of the Philosophy and Social Sciences Research Project of Guangdong Province in the 13th Five-Year Plan entitled “Research on the Cross-regional Collaboration Dilemma and Its Governance Mechanism in the Shenzhen-Dongguan-Huizhou Metropolitan Circle in the Context of Integration” (approval number: GD17CYJ07).