Yitao Tao, director of China Center for Special EconomicZone Research. She has been engaged in the research of Chineseand Western economic thoughts and theories for a long time, covering economichistory, history of economic thoughts, institutional economics, etc. In thepast 20 years, she has devoted herself to the comparative study of the historyof China’s reform and opening up, thehistory of China’s special economic zones.Yiming Yuan China Center for Special Economic Zone Research, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China