Remembering Hong Kong’s unsung role in Shenzhen’s glory – 40 years on, have fortunes reversed?

Two years before Shenzhen was named mainland China’s first special economic zone in 1980, Hong Kong industrialist Cheng Ho-ming arrived to start working with a state-run wig factory.He found himself in a rural backwater. The small 2,153 sq ft factory was in Luohu district, which had only one concrete road.“None of the buildings in town was higher than five storeys and there was only one restaurant,” he recalled. “Shenzhen officials arranged for me to travel by bus to their office to negotiate…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3099919/remembering-hong-kongs-unsung-role-shenzhens-glory-40-years