THE southern city of Shenzhen sums up China's reform and opening up leading to its modernization, economic development and progress.

Shenzhen is the picture-perfect exemplar of how China metamorphosed and is continuously being transformed by globalization. In many ways, Shenzhen showcases China's successes and triumphs in its reform and opening up. It is the Chinese city that exemplifies and demonstrates the critical roles that combined leadership, power and capacity of government institutions, business leaders, and the private sector, both at the local and national levels, play in facilitating change and innovation toward technological progress and economic development.