In the aftermath of the successful Olympic Games 2008 read another success story about a Chinese enterprise in the leftwing magazine MONTHLY REVIEW from the June 2008-issue.

Since ancient times, people have dreamed of a City of Youth, where the population never ages, and where any outsider who comes to live there will remain forever young. They probably did not have in mind, however, the “agelessness” of today’s Shenzhen, China. Lying just over the border from Hong Kong, this “instant city” has grown in just over twenty-five years from a small fishing village to a sprawling metropolitan region approaching ten million people. As the first Special Economic Zone in China, it was a model for the capitalistic “market reforms” and “opening to the world” initiated in the late 1970s by Deng Xiaoping.

Robert Weil, MONTHLY REVIEW, June 2008