Once there was an obscure fishing village that grew to become one of the world's most vibrant economic centers. Then about a century later, just upriver, came competition: an even more obscure fishing village that grew to become one of the world's most vibrant economic centers. The first was Hong Kong, which prospered after Britain seized it from imperial China and turned it into a free port in the mid-19th century. Across the Sham Chun River, Shenzhen boomed after Beijing in 1980 conferred on it the title of Special Economic Zone-China's first.
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