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Given the success of Shenzhen I'm always a little confused that no-one ever seems to talk about what actually makes it a SEZ. Those policies (mainly local governance & tax exemptions AFAIK) should probably be more widely applied.

If the government plans to try free-market capitalism then I'm in favour of the plan.

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Its a pretty complex topic. There are some hints in the book Extrastatecraft by Keller Easterling, also the Great Leap Forward by Rem Koolhaas and a dozen more urbanism books. But these only highlight specific aspects, of which there are still many to be talked about.

The success is also not equally distributed, but the mythmaking is also part of the story ofc. Living in factory campusses is very brutal etc.

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