Does anyone know how lonely Shantou city in Guangdong is? Was it a special economic zone at least 20 years ago?

1, Shantou: The loss index of 9.4 Shantou rose because Britain forced the Qing government to open ports after the Opium War. Although Shantou's history is not long, it has been brilliant for a while. Nowadays, many rich people in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are from Shantou. After the reform and opening-up, Shantou also received special care from the central authorities and became one of the five special economic zones in China. However, after more than 20 years, Shantou has never become a bright spot in the economy, and its economic level is not even comparable to that of Dongguan and Foshan in the province. There are so many overseas wealthy businessmen in Shantou, but they are gradually disappearing from everyone.

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Times have changed. "By the late 1990s, due to the lack of industrial technology and narrow economic hinterland in Shantou, more overseas Chinese capital flocked to the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the central and western regions." Zhuang Guo Tu, dean of Nanyang Research Institute of Xiamen University, told the reporter of Caijing Weekly: "Shantou's effect of attracting overseas Chinese capital is not ideal."

After 1998, Shantou took a sharp turn for the worse under the background of the steady growth of foreign capital utilization in China. After falling to a low point in 2003, it slowly picked up, but its former glory is gone.

"I missed the best development opportunity, and Shantou has not developed much for more than ten years." Chen Shiwu, general manager of the manufacturing division of Aofei Animation Culture Co., Ltd., a local private enterprise in Shantou, believes.

1999? In 20 13, Shantou actually absorbed only $2.99 billion in foreign direct investment, while last year, Shenzhen actually utilized $5.468 billion in foreign direct investment and Dongguan, a non-special zone city, $3.938 billion.

Traditional manufacturing has always been the main field of Shantou's foreign capital utilization, accounting for 97. 1% in 2005. In recent years, the proportion of foreign capital utilized by traditional manufacturing industries has declined, basically maintaining above 50%, with transportation, warehousing and postal services, real estate, wholesale and retail industries accounting for a certain proportion. However, Shantou has little foreign investment in finance, information technology, scientific research, service industry and other fields.